Myriam and the Mystic Brotherhood

Metaphysical Circulating Library Book Shop [Published 1924]. Hardcover, 370 pp. Originally published in 1912, this is a 1924 edition. An interesting account of a secret spiritual brotherhood located in the Death Valley region during the 1800's. Includes accounts of power of mind over matter, the ability to transmit wireless messages regardless of time and space, the ministry of invisible helpers, the power of the Soul to travel at will, and the passage of matter through matter. [From a review in the Theosophic Messenger, 1912] The author states in the preface that her one objects has been to weave a few ideas into a simple story easily understood.She has accomplished her task to a degree, but the few ideas become legion; the book, starting in with an intensely interesting, strong thread, gradually weaves in so much that is new and strange that one questions the ability of even an occult student to follow and comprehend the many points made. The story brings into everyday life much that has heretofore been peculiarly associated with the secret and unknown. Reincarnation, karma, the bringing through of nightly experiences in the other worlds, the Great Brotherhood with its centres in different parts of the globe, Initiations and all subjects heretofore known to the occult student but rarely mentioned publicly are brought forward and elucidated in a most matter-of-fact way. The story opens with the conveying across the desert of Bill Anston as as a prisoner. On the trail he and his guard come across two children whose protectors have succumbed to the heat of the plains, as does the sheriff himself a little later. Bill carefully tends the boy and wee girl until, quite worn and exhausted, they are met by an old man of saintly bearing, who tells Bill that he has been expecting them and has everything ready for their reception, leading them at once to a hut in the mountains. . .

Reviews

News