Theosophical Review Author:Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and Christians as a help to penetrate further into the spirit of their faith, so as to see its full width, breadth, and depth." We all stud' the religions of ... more »the past to learn from them, but it is absurd to suppose that there can be any real progress in simply returning to the past, and becoming either Hindu or Buddhist or Christian, once that the idea of an ever-present living Religion, underlying all religions and all forms of religion, has been caught sight of. Dr. Cants' remarks are slightly apologetic and meant to disarm the prejudice of the othodox, but he ends up bravely enough with the words : " Above any Hinayana, Mahayana, and Mahasetu is the Religion of Truth." G. R. S. M. The Dream Of Ravan. We are exceedingly glad to announce to our readers that the Theosophical Publishing Society has issued a reprint of this most interesting work, which can now be obtained in book form, nicely printed and bound on good paper for 2s. 6d. (pp. 248). Parts of this mystical work were reprinted in Lucifer, so that many of our readers will have an idea of its contents. The Dream of Ravan appeared originally in a series of articles in The Dublin University Magazine of 1853,1854. The name of the writer has not been disclosed; but whoever he was there is no doubt that he was both a scholar and a mystic. That he had studied the Rama- yana from the original texts, and was a master of Vedantic psychology is amply manifested; that he was a mystic himself and spoke of things that were realities to him and not mere empty speculations, is evident to every earnest student of Indian theosophical literature. In no other Western publication have the three "states" of man's consciousness been so strikingly and so intelligibly set forth as by our author. This mystic exposition will en...« less