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342 point out that the talented lady is here entirely in the wrong. If she takes the last of the seven vikaras she would find that it is a subtile element as far removed from the gross outer human body, the first principle in Mr. Sinnett's classification—as can possibly be imagined. In the system of Kapila, whatever relation it may bear to the system adopted in "Esoteric Buddhism" the tatwas (or principles) are not certainly those mentioned in Mr. Sinnett's book. The true relation has, to a certain extent, been shadowed forth in an article on the "Septenary Principle in Esotericism," published in the Theosophist for July last (Vol. IV, No. 10). But the best exposition of the subject will be found in another letter from the Mahatma to Mr. Sinnett, where, if one will but look for it, the order is correctly given, and special attention is drawn to the difference in the two classifications. The seven-fold division, that appears in "Esoteric Buddhism," is not given by Kapila in the same form. I am sorry to have to come to the conclusion, that the gifted lady has, besides misunderstanding Kapila, hardly bestowed on Mr. Sinnett's book that degree of attention that should be given to a work, before it is subjected to the fiery ordeal of such merciless criticism.

Further on, the President finds fault with Mrs. Sinnett for having degraded, as she thinks Kapila's Prakriti by calling it "molecular matter," which, according to her, has the effect of charging it with divisibility. I have carefully gone through Mr. Sinnett's book and have to confess my inability to identify the passage where the peccant expression occurs. But apart from that, it is impossible to conceive how the word "essence," which she proposes as a better substitute, can be freed from the charge of materialistic degradation attaching to the phrase against which her own criticism is directed; the more so as ultimate "molecular," hence, "motion" is entirely unknown to modern science, from which alone Mrs. Kingsford can derive her conception of molecules. She will feel the force of this argument, if she only tries to frame