Publisher's Synopsis
THERE are some interesting chapters in this small volume, especially when the author touches on Education and the theories of Gratry on Logic, and Boole on the laws of thought. As for the rest, take some logic and mathematics and a small quantity of metaphysics, mix them with strange misconceptions of two or three of the great world religions, go out of your way to glorify the Jewish nation, and you will have Logic Taught by Love. We are asked to believe that; "Far back in the ages a tribe was differentiated, to be to the other races of the earth what the Unseen Logos is to Humanity as a whole .... The Race of Israel is the hereditary priesthood of that Unity whose action is Pulsation." Now listen to the marriage hymn of science and religion: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Logos, the Hidden Wisdom, the Principle of Rhythmic Pulsation ...." Do not smile, gentle reader, for the writer who speaks of a "Seer of Messianic Singular Solution," and dubs Jesus the "High Priest of Pulsation," knows all about you, that is, if you are interested in Theosophy, and will probably call you worse names than these. You will be pleased to hear that: "occasionally an impulse of atavism seizes on a whole mass of people, too many to be locked up or ignored. Such a mass, ignorant of ancestral history, and therefore not knowing to what their own sensations point, start some weird fantastic movement, related to some portion of ancestral history .... The great Revolution in France, Mormonism in America, Maurice-ism and Hinton-ism here, 'Salvation, ' Table-turning, Homoeopathy, and Esoteric Buddhism - each was produced by some stratum of the ancestral past forcing itself into the consciousness of an irreverent and forgetful posterity?....
-Lucifer, Volume 5
