looking for help from the primitives, so these men are turning to
half-forgotten times in order to get help from their half-
forgotten methods. However, these very methods are still alive
and in use among nations whom we, from the height of our
knowledge, have been accustomed to regard with pity and scorn. To
such nations belong the Indians, who from time to time confront
those learned in our civilization with problems which we have
either passed by unnoticed or brushed aside with superficial
words and explanations. [Footnote: Frequently in such cases use
is made of the word hypnotism; that same hypnotism which, in its
earlier form of mesmerism, was disdainfully put aside by various
learned bodies.] Mme. Blavatsky was the first person, after a
life of many years in India, to see a connection between these
"savages" and our "civilization." From that moment there began a
tremendous spiritual movement which today includes a large number
of people and has even assumed a material form in the
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. This society consists of groups who seek to
approach the problem of the spirit by way of the INNER knowledge.
The theory of Theosophy which serves as the basis to this
movement was set out by Blavatsky in the form of a catechism in
which the pupil receives definite answers to his questions from
the theosophical point of view. [Footnote: E. P. Blavatsky, The
Key of Theosophy, London, 1889.] Theosophy, according to
Blavatsky, is synonymous with ETERNAL TRUTH. "The new torchbearer
of truth will find the minds of men prepared for his message, a
language ready for him in which to clothe the new truths he
brings, an organization awaiting his arrival, which will remove
the merely mechanical, material obstacles and difficulties from
his path." And then Blavatsky continues: "The earth will be a
heaven in the twenty-first century in comparison with what it is