The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX How To Keep Fir. By C. T. SCHOFIELD, M.D. W. Rider and Sons. ts. net. There is a deal of sound sense in this little manual. The author castigates faddists, though to my mind not severely enough. However, I suppose that in this mealy-mouthed age the truth is not printable. It is a little amusing, though, to see how he tries to make his commonsense fit into his Christianity. It is the Puritan theory that theological sin, which means everything you like, is bad for you, that is responsible, according to statistics, for 79°403% of all the misery in England. I suppose the bulk of the rest is due to having to review the outfall of the R.P.A. A.C. THE LITERARY GUIDE. March-September, 1910. We regret that the R.P.A. disliked our reviews of their sewerage. The said reviews were, however, written by one of the most prominent members of their own body. Rather like Epaminondas and the Cretans! Anyhow, the “Guide” has wittily retorted on us that our reviews are “valueless.” What a sparkler! What a crusher! A.C. BHaktTI-YoGa. (Udvodhan Series.) By SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. 12 Gopal Chandra Neogi’s Lane, Baghbazar, Calcutta. 8 annas. If Swami Vivekananda was not a great Yogi he was at least a very great expounder of Yoga doctrines. It is impossible here to convey to the reader a just estimate of the extreme value of this book. But we can say that this is the best work on the Bhakti-Yoga yet written. Union through devotion is Bhakti- Yoga, and union with Isvara or the Higher Self is the highest form this union can take—“ man will be seen no more as man, but only as God; the animal will be seen no more as an animal, but as God; even the tiger will no more be seen a tiger, but as a manifestation of God”... “love knows no bargaining ... love knows no reward . .. love knows no fear . . . love knows no rival ...” for “there are no men in this world but that One Man, and that is He, the Beloved.” In this excellent series can also be obtained Raja Yoga, one rupee; Karma Yoga, twelve annas; and Jnana Yoga, one rupee, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,