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Volume I, Number 1 - Spring 1997

Namastae! .................................................................................................4
A Conversation With a Tibetan Buddhist - Geshe Kaldan ...........................5
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
On the Alleged Tibetan Source of Alice Bailey's Writings ............................9
       by David Reigle
The Great Comet of 1997 ........................................................................12
       by A Student
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class.....................................................15
       by L.A.
Book Reviews .........................................................................................16
       Blavatsky, Freemasonry, & the Western Mystery Tradition
         by John Algeo
       The Veda Commentaries of H.P. Blavatsky by H.J. Spierenburg
       The White Buddhist, The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott
         
by Stephen Prothero
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................18
       William W. Johnstone
       Ellen Sue Politella
       Viewpoint Aquarius


Volume I, Number 2 - Summer 1997

Editorial ...................................................................................................28
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................29
What On Earth Is Going On? ...................................................................30
       by D.A.B.
In Theosophy's Shadow Vanity Whispers .................................................33
       by Nicholas Weeks
Fohat and the Spiritual Monad .................................................................36
       by Gerald J. Schueler, PhD
On Enemies .............................................................................................39
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Book Reviews .........................................................................................41
       Lucifer Cumulative Index compiled by Ted Davy
       Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth Century

       Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician
       by John Patrick Deveney
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................44
       by L.A.


Volume I, Number 3 - Fall 1997

Editorial ...................................................................................................52
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................53
Vampires Among Us ...............................................................................54
       by Rogelle Pelletier
Bailey, God and Hercules ........................................................................58
       by R. Robb
What Does Theosophy Say About Mars? ................................................60
       compiled by David Pratt
Theosophical History Conference, London, July 1997 ..............................63
       by Michael Gomes
The Eye of Dangma .................................................................................64
       by P.M.M.
Book Reviews .........................................................................................66
       H.P. Blavatsky and the SPR: An Examination of the Hodgson
       Report of 1885
by Vernon Harrison
Theosophical Friends Remembered - Alice Leighton Cleather ...................67
       by Joan Sutcliffe


Volume I, Number 4 - Winter 1997

Editorial ...................................................................................................76
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................77
DoNotAlter? ...........................................................................................78
       by Dolores Brisson
Early Canadian Theosophists and Social Reform ......................................81
       by Ted G. Davy
Force of Motive ......................................................................................84
       by Dara Eklund
Nabathean Agriculture .............................................................................86
       by Richard Robb
A Psychological View of Fohat ................................................................88
       by Gerald Schueler, Ph.D.
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................89
       by Laurier Auger
Book Reviews .........................................................................................90
       After Death Consciousness and Processes
       compiled by Geoffrey A. Farthing
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................91
       Laetitia Van Hees


Volume II, Number 1 - Spring 1998

Editorial .....................................................................................................4
Letters to the Editor ...................................................................................5
Nabathean Agriculture ...............................................................................6
       tr. by Bill Bittar
Active Theosophy: The Meditation Diagram of H.P. Blavatsky .................11
       by Sharon Ormerod
Psychic Exploration and Government Immorality ......................................14
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect ..............................................18
       by David Pratt
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................21
       by Laurier Auger


Volume II, Number 2 - Summer 1998

Editorial ...................................................................................................28
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................29
Eternally Vigilant - Part I ..........................................................................30
       by Abhinyano
Celibacy: Exploratory Comments on Third Eye/Celibacy ..........................33
       by P.B.
The Origin of Evil .....................................................................................36
       by Alexander Pogue
Radiant Auroras and Dawn Chorus ..........................................................40
       by D.B.
Musings From a Secret Doctrine Class .....................................................42
       by Laurier Auger
Book Reviews .........................................................................................43
       S d: The Son of the Man by S.F. Dunlap
       Index to The Theosophist, Volumes I-VI, October 1879 to
       September 1885

Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................44
       John Cooper
       Lydia Courtois-Truyts


Volume II, Number 3 - Fall 1998

Editorial ...................................................................................................52
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................53
Eternally Vigilant - Part II..........................................................................54
       by Abhinyano
Jungian Theosophy ..................................................................................57
       by Gerald Schueler, Ph.D.
Houses That Kill! .....................................................................................60
       by Rogelle Pelletier
Edmonton Theosophical Conference ........................................................65
       by John Patrick Deveney
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................66
       Eric and Lillian Hooper
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................67
Book Reviews .........................................................................................68
       Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind by C.D.B. Bryan


Volume II, Number 4 - Winter 1998

Editorial ...................................................................................................76
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................77
The Creators of Self-Consciousness .........................................................78
       by Claude Hughes
On Preparing to Study The Secret Doctrine ..............................................82
       by Anne Redlich
The Science of Universal Harmony ...........................................................84
       by Knut M. Pauli
Active Theosophy: The Meditation Diagram of H.P. Blavatsky (cont'd) .... 87
       by Sharon Ormerod
Health From Mind to Body ......................................................................91
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................95
       by Laurier Auger


Volume III, Number 1 - Spring 1999

Editorial .....................................................................................................4
Letters to the Editor ...................................................................................5
Prophecies, Prophecies, Prophecies ...........................................................6
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Misconstrued Angels ...............................................................................10
       by Dolorese Brisson
Gandhi - The Force of Ahimsa .................................................................13
       by Prem Kalia
Science of Universal Harmony III - Geometrical Illustration of Harmony ...18
       by Knut M. Pauli


Volume III, Number 2 - Summer 1999

Editorial ...................................................................................................28
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................29
What Is Initiation? ....................................................................................30
       by Mark Jaqua
Yoga-Meditation .....................................................................................32
       by Abhinyano
The Rendezvous ......................................................................................37
       by Alexander Pogue
Man As A Force .....................................................................................39
       by Julia W.L. Keightley
The Science of Universal Harmony IV - General Laws of Music ...............41
       by Knut M. Pauli
Book Reviews .........................................................................................44
       Conjuring Up the Owens compiled by John Robert Colombo
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................44
       Ruth Harrison
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................45
       by Stephania Duffee


Volume III, Number 3 - Fall 1999

Editorial ...................................................................................................52
Y2K: Deliverance or Disaster ..................................................................53
       by Dara Eklund
Portraits of the Brothers and How They Were Made ................................56
       by Joseph E. Ross
Report on a Search for The Book of the Golden Precepts
in Kalimpong, March 1998 ......................................................................61
       by David Reigle
Dear Comrade: The Early Canadian Theosophist
Flora MacDonald Denison .......................................................................62
       by Ted G. Davy
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................64
       Dora Kunz
       Salomon Lancri

Book Reviews .........................................................................................65
       Colonel Arthur L. Conger by Alan E. Donant
       Blavatsky's Secret Books, Twenty Years' Research

       by David and Nancy Reigle
A Theosophical Fable ..............................................................................66
Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................67
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald


Volume III, Number 4 - Winter 1999

Editorial ...................................................................................................76
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................77
Atlantis: Legend or History? .....................................................................78
       by Morry Secrest
The Darwinian Filter ................................................................................82
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
The Mystery of Self .................................................................................84
       by Claude Hughes
Alchemy and the Alchemists .....................................................................85
       Reprinted from Transactions of the Scottish Lodge
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................89
       Lafayette Gordon Plummer


Volume IV, Number 1 - Spring 2000

Editorial .....................................................................................................4
Letters to the Editor ...................................................................................5
Lights and Shadows of Brotherhood ..........................................................6
       by Brett Forray
Milk in the Kali-"Moo"ga .........................................................................10
       by Rogelle Pelletier
The Age of Earth .....................................................................................12
       by David Pratt
Theosophy and Buddhism ........................................................................14
       by David Reigle
The H.P.B. Library ..................................................................................18
       by John Robert Colombo
Book Reviews .........................................................................................19
       The Mystery Schools by Grace F. Knoche
       Psychic Pioneer Publications


Volume IV, Number 2 - Summer 2000

Editorial ...................................................................................................28
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................29
Too Deep for Dinosaurs ..........................................................................30
       by Dolorese Brisson
Who Are Blavatsky's Aryans? .................................................................33
       by Angus Carter
The Hopi Indians: The Way of the Spirit ...................................................35
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Speech, Breath, and the Yoga Inhalation ..................................................40
       by Alexander Pogue
The Head and The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism .........................................43
       by R.B.M.
Book Review ..........................................................................................45
       Look at the Sky: Death in Cultures Around the World
       by Shawn Haley


Volume IV, Number 3 - Fall 2000

Editorial ...................................................................................................52
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................53
The Perfectibility of Man ..........................................................................54
       by Dara Eklund
The Initiation Procedure Within the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, Part I ..57
       by Abhinyano
James Morgan Pryse ...............................................................................61
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................64
       Anita Atkins - Sylvia Cranston
       Dorothy Armstrong
       Dorothy Abbenhouse

Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class ....................................................67
       by A Student


Volume IV, Number 4 - Winter 2000

Editorial ...................................................................................................76
Annie Besant: Her Passions and Her Relationships - Part I ........................77
       by Ernest Pelletier
Samkhya and the Wisdom-Religion ..........................................................84
       by David Reigle
The Initiation Procedure Within the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt,
Part II
.....................................................................................................87
       by Abhinyano
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................91
       Gerhard Karl Rohde (Abhinyano)


Volume V, Number 1 - Spring 2001

Editorial .....................................................................................................4
Letters to the Editor ...................................................................................5
Annie Besant: Her Passions and Her Relationships - Part II ........................6
       by Ernest Pelletier
Getting Caught in the Polarized World of Good and Evil ...........................12
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Celestial Violence and Human Karma ......................................................14
       by Alexander Pogue
The Gelugpa View of Svabhava in Relation to Theosophy .........................17
       by David Reigle
Cosmic Consciousness Centenary ............................................................20
       by T.G.D.
Statement Regarding Dr. John Cooper's Compilation of the Collected
Correspondence of Madame Blavatsky ....................................................20
       by Dr. Gregory Tillett
Book Review ..........................................................................................23
       Ghost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo


Volume V, Number 2 - Summer 2001

Editorial ...................................................................................................28
Updates ..................................................................................................29
To Fill the Hollow Man ............................................................................30
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
H.P. Blavatsky and Tibetan Buddhism ......................................................33
       by Gerald J. Schueler, Ph.D.
The Joy of Indexes ..................................................................................38
       by Ted G. Davy
Book Reviews .........................................................................................40
       The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky by Daniel Caldwell
       Gayatri by
I.K. Taimni
       Creating the New Age: Theosophy's Origins in the British Isles

       by Michael Gomes


Volume V, Number 3 - Fall 2001

Editorial ...................................................................................................52
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................53
Where Are the Boundaries? .....................................................................54
       by Dolorèse Brisson
The Original Sankaracarya .......................................................................57
       by David Reigle
The Eddy Farm  Then and Now ...........................................................61
       by Rogelle Pelletier
The Taormina Initiations ...........................................................................64
       by Rogelle Pelletier
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................67
       Maritza Forgach de Sordo, Countess of Gymes and Gach
Archeology, Theosophy, and the Americas ...............................................68
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald


Volume V, Number 4 - Winter 2001

Editorial ...................................................................................................76
Borobudur: The Largest Buddhist Monument and Pyramid in Java Being
Theosophy in Stone .................................................................................77
       by Abhinyano
Cycles Great and Small: A Look at the Cycles of Galaxies and
Water Molecules and Their Effects on Man ..............................................83
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Theosophical Friends Remembered ..........................................................88
       William Emmett Small
Book Reviews .........................................................................................93
       A Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris
       
by Lisa Christensen
       The Franklin Conspiracy. Cover-up, Betrayal, and the Astonishing        Secret Behind the Lost Arctic Expedition
by Jeffrey Blair Latta


Volume VI, Number 1 - Spring 2002

Editorial .....................................................................................................4
The Origins of Christianity ..........................................................................5
       by David Pratt
Diuturnal Gold .........................................................................................11
       by Dolorèse Brisson
Magic, Nature Spirits and Evolution .........................................................13
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Nature's Laws in H.P.B.'s Works ............................................................16
       by Karin Smith
Book Review ..........................................................................................19
       An Exorcist Tells His Story by Father Gabriele Amorth


Volume VI, Number 2 - Summer 2002

Editorial ...................................................................................................28
Letters to the Editor .................................................................................29
Who Was the Real Jesus? ........................................................................30
       by David Pratt
Monads in Theosophy and Tibetan Buddhism ...........................................35
       by Gerald Schueler, Ph.D.
India and Pakistan: Poisoning by Separation .............................................39
Musings From a Secret Doctrine Class: A Question of Motion ..................40
       by A Student
Book Reviews .........................................................................................41
       Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life by Mike Ashley
       To Light a Thousand Lamps, A Theosophic Vision

       by Grace F. Knoche


Volume VI, Number 3 - Fall 2002

Editorial....................................................................................................52
The Popol Vuh and The Secret Doctrine...................................................53
       by Karin Smith
Spiritual Ambush: Confronting Cyclic Impressions and Their Return...........57
       by Dara Eklund
The Limitations of the Professional Historian:
A Revealing Look at The Masters Revealed ...........................................61
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Love, Sweet Love....................................................................................65
       by Kandalavala
Strange Plaque.........................................................................................66
       by John Robert Colombo
Theosophical Friends Remembered...........................................................68
       Anne Whalen
Book Review...........................................................................................69
       Wading Into the Ocean, A Companion To
         "The Ocean of Theosophy"
by Ann Forsyth Danno


Volume VI, Number 4 - Winter 2002

Editorial....................................................................................................76
Keely and Zero Point Energy....................................................................77
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Suicides in the After Death States..............................................................80
       by Dolores Brisson
To Sleep: Perchance to Dream..................................................................84
       by Rogelle Pelletier
Eating and Sleeping Alone.........................................................................88
       by A Buddhist
Theosophical Friends Remembered...........................................................89
       Armand Courtois
Book Review...........................................................................................90
       Krishnamurti: A Biographyby Pupul Jayakar


Volume VII, Number 1 - Spring 2003

Editorial......................................................................................................4
Letters to the Editor....................................................................................5
God's Arrival in India - Part I......................................................................6
       by David Reigle
The Bodhisattva Ideal...............................................................................12
       by Zendo
The Nostrodamus Comet?........................................................................15
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
The Easter Hare.......................................................................................19
       by Katharine Hillard


Volume VII, Number 2 - Summer 2003

Editorial....................................................................................................28
What Killed William Q. Judge? - Part I.....................................................29
       by Ernest Pelletier
God's Arrival in India - Part II...................................................................35
       by David Reigle
The Symbology of Birds...........................................................................40
       by K. Smith
Book Review...........................................................................................44
       T. Subba Row Collected Writings, Volumes I and II
         compiled and annotated by Henk J. Spierenburg
The Sirhan Affair Revisited........................................................................45
       by T.G.D.


Volume VII, Number 3 - Fall 2003

Editorial....................................................................................................52
A Practical Occultist.................................................................................53
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
William Q. Judge - The Pilgrim..................................................................55
       by Ernest Pelletier
Swinging With the Motion of the Spheres..................................................57
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
What Killed William Q. Judge? - Part II....................................................60
       by Ernest Pelletier
Natus: W.Q. Judge...................................................................................65
       by Alan Leo
What Should Theosophists Talk About?....................................................67
       by William Q. Judge
What is Occultism?...................................................................................71
       by William Q. Judge


Volume VII, Number 4 - Winter 2003

Editorial....................................................................................................76
Letters to the Editor..................................................................................77
Big Bang, Black Holes, and Common Sense.............................................78
       by David Pratt
An Anthroposophical Genius in Twelve Fields
and a Challenge to Canadian Theosophists................................................82
       by John Robert Colombo
Vivisection Continues................................................................................84
       by LiuYue
Medacity: Citizens on a Hot Tin Roof........................................................87
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
The Theosophical Parrot...........................................................................92
       by Dara Eklund
Book Review...........................................................................................93
       Secret Doctrine Questions and Answers
         by Geoffrey A. Barborka


Volume VIII, Number 1 - Spring 2004

Editorial......................................................................................................4
The Role of the Gunas................................................................................5
       by Karin Smith
Penitent SquirrelsEpisodes from the Life of Mabel Collins........................8
       by Kim Farnell
Sexual Charisma and the Occult................................................................14
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Moon Void-of-Course Phenomena...........................................................18
       by Chris Mcrae, PMAFA, CA.NCGR, CAP.ISAR
Theosophical Friends Remembered...........................................................22
       Ruby Wellbourne
Book Review...........................................................................................23
       O Rare Denis Saurat by John Robert Colombo


Volume VIII, Number 2 - Summer 2004

Editorial....................................................................................................28
Letters to the Editor..................................................................................29
Foundations of a Theosophist's Faith.........................................................30
       by Willem B. Roos
Colloidal and Hermetic Chemistry.............................................................32
       by Cyrus Field Willard, F.P.S.
Ether, Science and Crystal Skulls..............................................................35
       by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Musings From a Secret Doctrine Class  Spirit in Bondage?....................39
       by Dolorese Brisson
Book Reviews..........................................................................................41
       The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky, Vol. 1, 1861-1879
         by John Algeo
       Krishnamurti & the Wind, An Integral Biography
         by Jean Overton Fuller
Theosophical Friends Remembered...........................................................44
       Dorita Gilmour, Geoffrey A. Farthing, Carmen Small

 

Volume VIII, Number 3 - Fall 2004

Editorial....................................................................................................52
The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky, Volume 1 
       The Controversy Begins
.....................................................................53
Letters to the Editor..................................................................................54
Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Its Connection
       to The Theosophical Publication Society.............................................58
        by Ernest Pelletier
The Hounds of Hell...................................................................................62
        by Ted Davy
Book Review............................................................................................65
       Krotona of Old Hollywood, Volume II, 1914-1920
        
by Joseph E. Ross

 

Volume VIII, Number 3 - Fall 2004 Supplement

Our Collective Strength................................................................................i
Letters........................................................................................................ii
A Plea for Brotherhood..............................................................................iii
Solovyoff and His Letters...........................................................................vi

 

Volume VIII, Number 4 - Winter 2004

Editorial....................................................................................................76
Letters to the Editor..................................................................................77
Defending the Old Lady  The TPH-USA
       and the Solvoyoff Letters
...................................................................79
        by Carlos Cardoso Aveline
A Language of Numbers?.........................................................................83
        by Doss McDavid
The Curse of the Skhandas.......................................................................86
        by Jerome
The Three Strands....................................................................................87
        by Robert Bruce MacDonald
Doubts and Doubters................................................................................90
Book Reviews..........................................................................................92
       Evolution & Creation: A Theosophic Synthesis
        
by W.T.S. Thackara
       The Monster Book of Canadian Monsters
        by John Robert Colombo

 



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