The new "adept" (Mrs Tingley) is simply a professional spiritist medium, known in teance rooms as " Kitty." Already I have read in an English paper an account of a marriage ceremony celebrated by Mrs Tingley in New York, in the presence of the "inner circle" of the new cult, and from the grotesque pro ceedings atigur ill for the future of the "Theosophical Society in America." There would be little fear of coufusing the two bodies could we but get people to remember that we have no ceremonies, no creed, no dogmas; that we, meet to discuss the philosophy of the ancient Wisdom Religion, and, in the endeavor to assimilate so much of its august and eternal verities as may be possible to our capacities, find a task which shall occupy us—to our own good and the benefit of mankind —during the whole of this brief mortal life, and, it may be, for many ft life to come—the horizon of know ledge ever receding, the dim light that now illuminates us through the dark glass of the senses and brain-mind ever brightening more and more into the perfect day of spiritual perception. As to the statement made by the New York journal and reproduced by you, that Mrs Tingley " is the leading Theosophist of' the world," your readers may judge of its

truth by studying Theosophical writings, where they will find the phenomena of Spiritualism oecupying a small and (except bo far as it may help to partially open the blinded eyes of the Materialist) unimportant place in the arcana of a great philosophical system; while the practices of the seance room are uncompromisingly opposed, and that degrading hyper-materialism (how true it is that extremes meet) which drags down spiritual things to the mire of earth—as witness the conception of the Summer Land, where people are married and boys and girls go to school—is shown to be founded upon unreliable data, chiefly, in fact, upon the report of so-called "spirits." It is, there fore, on the face of it, highly improbable that a professional medium would be elected to any office in our society ; and in this case, at all events, the statement is quite untrue. 