cient philosophers will never be lifted up for the amusement or
edification of the uninitiated public.

Now to summarize the facts stated in this article, the contents of the
first chapter of the history of this universe are as follows:

1. The self-existent, eternal Brahmam.

2. Pranava (Aum).

3. The androgyne Brahma, or the bisexual Sephira-Adam Kadmon.

4. The Sacred Tetragram--the four matras of Pranava--the four
avasthas--the four states of Brahma--the Sacred Dharaka.

5. The five Brahmas--the five Buddhas representing in their totality
the Jivatma.

6. The Astral Light--the holy Virgin--the six forces in Nature.

7. The thirty-six Tatwams born of Avidya.

8. The universe in thought--the Swapna Avastha--the microcosm looked at
from a subjective point of view.

9. The nine Prajapatis--the assistants of the Demiurgus.*

10. The shape of the material universe in the mind of the Demiurgus--
the DODECAHEDRON.

11. The fourteen lokas.

12. The five elements.

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* The nine Kabalistic Sephiroths emanated from Sephira the 10th and the
head Sephiroth are identical. Three trinities or triads with their
emanative principle form the Pythagorean mystic Decad, the sum of all
which represents the whole Kosmos.--Ed. Theos.
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The history of creation and of this world from its beginning up to the
present time is composed of seven chapters. The seventh chapter is not
yet completed.

--T. Subba Row
Triplicane, Madras, September 14, 1881

The Sishal and Bhukailas Yogis

We are indebted to the kindness of the learned President of the Adi
Brahmo Samaji for the following accounts of two Yogis, of whom one
performed the extraordinary feats of raising his body by will power, and
keeping it suspended in the air without visible support. The Yoga
posture for meditation or concentration of the mind upon spiritual
things is called Asana. There are various of these modes of sitting,
such as Padmasan, &c. &c. Babu Rajnarain Bose translated this narrative
from a very old number of the Tatwabodhini Patrika, the Calcutta organ
of the Brahmo Samaj. The writer was Babu Akkhaya Kumar Dalta, then
editor of the Patrika, of whom Babu Rajnarain speaks in the following
high terms--"A very truth-loving and painstaking man; very fond of
observing strict accuracy in the details of a description."

Sishal Yogi

A few years ago, a Deccan Yogi, named Sishal, was seen at Madras, by