THEOSOPHY, Vol. 31, No. 12, October, 1943 (Pages 550-554; Size:
15K) (Number 7 of a 10-part series) [Compiler's Note: All 10
articles have the same name.] CYCLES OF PSYCHISM FOR some years
now the idea that the human race is on the verge, even in the
midst of, a great change, has been gaining popular currency.
This theory is by no means limited to political prophets and
workers for an international order. Nearly every branch of
thought has its version of the world of tomorrow. While sober
scientists are predicting that specialized progress will
revolutionize still further our present ways of life, there are
scores of exotic cults who anticipate more miraculous
alterations in the future, and are now attempting to gather
supporters for their particular program of social reform. It is
as though the whole world were in labor, utterly confused as to
the meaning of the physical and moral suffering of all humanity,
and longing, with the intensity born of desperation, to believe
that, somehow, the millennium is not f