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73 After making the admission of the possibility is there not an inconsistency in adding the latter clause, coming as it does from a defender of the true faith in Orthodox Brahmanism?* It sounds like a claim on Mr. Row's part to a perfect knowledge of the motives which actuate the exalted one. On what grounds does Mr. Row claim his right to the knowledge as to what the real author of the Mahabharata "chooses to do"?†

From the Bhagavatgita, I learn that the one who (in a certain state) is described as the "Lord of all created beings," used this language, "Having command over my nature, I am made manifest by my own power: and as often as there is a decline ot virtue, and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, I make myself manifest: and thus I appear from age to age". Through thus taking command over his own nature, and all men, I hold that for all practical purposes, he does choose "a chela in human form:" i. e., one who takes on the clothing of The Sun, by means of the divine ray in which he makes Himself evident: and more, that there are chelas in human form, through whom the powers of The Grand Spirits Identity will be unfolded in due order; even as it has been in past ages. What is true in regard to the Great one, is true in regard to spirits of lesser degree; who also can have chelas of a degree corresponding with them.

According to The Theosophist, a Raja Yogee Brother has the power to assume whatever form he pleases, and to communicate with spirits either in, or the body. Why then should