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Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions
Right to Judicial Review of State Agency Decisions
There is no inherent right to a judicial appeal from an administrative agency's decision. The right of appeal is also not a constitutional or inalienable right. The enabling statute has to grant the right of appeal[i] and the appeal must conform to the statute granting the right of appeal and regulating the process.
The statutory requirement is mandatory and not directory. Statutory requirement is a condition precedent to require a review by courts and must be observed. Its non-compliance will result in the dismissal of the appeal.
The enabling statute defines the scope of a particular agency's power. The enabling statute is the primary source from which particular agency gets its power and right of judicial review. The extent of power and right of judicial review of a particular agency is determined by:
The express language of the enabling statute;
The structure of the statutory scheme;
The objectives of the particular agency;
The legislative history of the particular agency; and
The nature of the administrative action involved.
It is well settled that appeals from administrative agencies exist only under statutory authority and if the enabling statute do not provide for such appeal, courts cannot hear the appeals for want of jurisdiction. Thus, courts have no inherent appellate jurisdiction over official acts of a particular agency unless the enabling statute has provided for the same.
As statutory authority is a pre-requisite for filing of appeal from administrative agency's decision, statutory provisions should be strictly complied with. Statutory provisions are mandatory and should be strictly followed.
If the enabling statute has set a time for filing an appeal from an administrative agency's decision, failure to file the appeal within the said time makes the appeal invalid and deprives the courts of jurisdiction to hear it.[ii]
Similarly, if the enabling statute has set boundary on the subject matter jurisdiction, the same should be strictly followed. Subject matter jurisdiction concerns the cause of action and the relief sought. It exists when the court proceeds to determine the issues involved or grant a relief sought[iii]. Where a statute specifically provides that an appeal must be filed in a certain court, that court alone has jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. Thus, where a statute gives the aggrieved party the right to file an appeal in the Circuit Court of Cole County, the party should file the appeal only in the Circuit Court of Cole County. Other circuit courts will not have jurisdiction over the subject matter.
Subject matter jurisdiction cannot be conferred by consent or agreement between the parties. The question of lack of jurisdiction can be raised for the first time at any stage in a proceeding, even before the Supreme Court.[iv] Similarly, where a statute gives exclusive jurisdiction to review the agency's decision to a legislatively created panel, a court is without jurisdiction to review such agency decisions.
Courts always come to the aid of public to hear meritorious complaints against illegal acts of non-judicial authorities and agencies. When a statute does not confer a right of appeal, judicial redress for fraudulent, oppressive or illegal official conduct will have to be invoked through appropriate, and extraordinary legal remedies like injunction, mandamus or quo warranto.
Under a state administrative procedure act, any person who is aggrieved by a final agency decision in a contested case, and who has exhausted all administrative remedies given by a statute is entitled to judicial review of such decisions if the statute provides judicial review. Thus, a party can seek for judicial review of an adverse administrative determination, when s/he proves that:[v]
The person is aggrieved;
There is a final agency decision;
The decision is in a contested case;
There is no other adequate procedure for judicial review; and
The person has exhausted administrative remedies.
[i] In re Vandiford, 56 N.C. App. 224 (N.C. Ct. App. 1982)
[ii] Cassella v. Department of Liquor Control, 30 Conn. App. 738 (Conn. App. Ct. 1993)
[iii] State Tax Com. v. Administrative Hearing Com., 641 S.W.2d 69, 72 (Mo. 1982)
[iv] State v. Rogers, 351 Mo. 321 (Mo. 1943)
[v] State of Tennessee on behalf of Tennessee Dep't of Health & Environment v. Environmental Management Com., 78 N.C. App. 763, 766 (N.C. Ct. App. 1986)
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It was fellow GWC associate conservation scientist and Small Cat Advocacy & Research (SCAR) co-founder Ashan on the other end, informing me about a kitten that was found by someone in Colombo, and that the individual in question was asking the Facebook community for advice. Oh, God! He said that judging by the photographs posted online, it seemed to be a Fishing Cat kitten.
Without a second thought, and thankful for the distraction, I started the tedious task of searching for this post on my spastic phone, and after several minutes found what I was looking for. It WAS a Fishing Cat kitten, but it looked a bit weak. The person who found the kitten, let's call her X for the sake of this story, had mentioned in the post's caption that she wasn't sure what the kitten was and that it was refusing to drink milk.
Scrolling through the comments I noticed that some people had identified the kitten as a wild cat, and despite this, others had asked that the kitten be handed over to them as they would like to have it as a pet. I also saw some comments directing X to call the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) and us. This made me particularly happy, as it showed that all the awareness building we were doing was paying off. Now it was just a matter of time before X would reach out to us, but just in case I sent her a message as well.
My phone rang about 20 minutes later, and I was greeted by a worried voice on the other end. After some verification on her end to make sure I was in fact from the project (very impressive—it showed that she didn't want to give the kitten to just anyone), she started updating me on what happened.
The kitten was found the night before in the middle of the road, when X was turning into her street after work. She took it home and tried to feed it, but it had refused to eat despite numerous desperate attempts on her end. Her only option was to keep it warm until morning. X was also worried because the kitten looked weak since it was a bit unsteady on its feet the next morning.
Without any hesitation, I got X's details and called Dr. Tharaka, the DWC chief veterinary surgeon, and explained the situation to him. Since I was so close to the location at the time, he gave me permission to go pick the kitten up.
With permission under my belt, I rushed over to X's house to pick the kitten up. Driving down to the location in Borella, I was stunned at the urbanization of the area, and it instantly reminded me of Mizuchi, a Fishing Cat I know well who is thriving in an urban wetland setting—a trend that we are studying in Colombo. Judging by the environment and time at which the kitten was found, it's possible that the mother was moving her kittens, when one slipped out of her grasp as she was running across the street. The fact that the kitten was rescued and not run over was a miracle!
I was met by X and her family, and after a brief exchange of "how do you dos" and so on, and another quick background check to make sure I was indeed the person she spoke to on the phone (again, very impressive, considering many people would fake their identity to get their hands on these kittens), X gave me all the details once again, and showed me where she found the kitten.
X then handed me a box of tissue. I panicked thinking that I had something dangling out of my nose. Taking the box from her very gingerly I noticed a large hole cut out at the top, and peering inside I saw a tiny ball of fluffy down, and suddenly, a little head poked out and went SQUEAK! For a kitten that tiny, it sure had a massive set of lungs.
Another peeved squeak emitted from inside the warm confines of the box. These were hungry squeaks. A kitten this size needed to be fed at least every three hours, and this little bean hadn't had anything for more than 12 hours!
The drive back home seemed endless. Every traffic light seemed to turn red as we approached. It was like some sort of conspiracy! Meanwhile the bean slept in her little box amidst some soft cloth that was meant to be a crude representation of her mother. She woke up just once, and that was my fault. The fact that she was so still and quiet worried me, so I lifted her to make sure she was okay. Bad mistake. I was met with some very annoyed hungry squeaks, before she settled back down to sleep again.
Once we got home, I got my kitten-feeding instruments and formula. But before feeding her she was weighed (190g), sexed (female) and her temperature was taken (normal). Her overall outward appearance looked ok, apart from her being dehydrated, so the feedings began. Feeding a kitten that young is a painstaking and meticulous process. Everything needs to be sterile and the way the formula is mixed needs to be exact. One little mistake and you're in trouble. Every feed must also be followed by the kitten defecating and urinating with the mother's help (aka a good bum lick). The mother at the time was me and as much as I loved it, there was no way I was going to lick that fluffy bum. So I came prepared with my box of cotton balls and a bowl of warm water.
The bean spent a few hours with me, slowly but surely getting rehydrated and gaining her strength. When she was pottering around a lot more between meals and snoozes I decided it was time to hand her over to the DWC team.
It was a bitter sweet goodbye. I couldn't help but get attached to her, so leaving her was hard, but I knew she was in good hands. Hopefully in a few months she'll be roaming around in a wetland herself. The future of her species.
Crosspost from Global Wildlife Conservation Blog.


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Alliance responds to Wilson Comments
Alliance Party Finance Spokesperson, Stephen Farry has responded to comments from Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson, on the scale of the financial crisis facing Northern Ireland.
Stephen Farry MLA said: "The Finance Minister is right in stressing the scale of the potential financial challenge facing Northern Ireland over coming years. The scale of the cuts to the Block Grant is set to rise from the £128m requested this year as the Government increases the scale of the overall cuts in UK spending as it rebalances the national public finances.
"The challenge for Northern Ireland has been made worse by the recent reluctance of the Executive to tackle some fundamental distortions in local expenditure and past missed opportunities for reform. Any further stalling on addressing these issues will entail even greater pain in terms of the impact on public services such as health and education.
"Alliance has consistently highlighted the need for government to make a start on addressing the costs of managing a divided society. This £1billion cost per year will not be eliminated quickly, but it must be confronted nevertheless.
"The Executive has also ducked what is an inevitable decision on the introduction of water charges. Surely, the matter can be no longer about whether water charges are introduced but rather how they are introduced in terms of fairness and a link to ability to pay. For any party that care about social justice and quality and accessible public services this is the only honest position to take. I take some encouragement from the Finance Minister's new rhetoric around this, but the position of other parties is simply unsustainable.
"Even with these, tough decisions are still going to be required. There are no silver bullets in terms of quango reviews or reform of the structures. Important at these are to address, by themselves, they cannot produce the magnitude of saving required. Alliance believes that greater emphasis does need to be given to prevention and early intervention policies. These will reduce the cost pressures facing Departments. Cuts in these areas would be a false economy."


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Darius Kasparaitis ou Darious Vladovitch Kasparaïtis - en  - (né le  à Elektrėnai en URSS, aujourd'hui ville de Lituanie) est un joueur professionnel russe de hockey sur glace. Il évolue au poste de défenseur.

Carrière

Carrière en club
En 1988, il commence sa carrière au HK Dinamo Moscou dans le championnat d'URSS. Il a été choisi par les Islanders de New York au cours du repêchage d'entrée dans la Ligue nationale de hockey en tant que  en première ronde. Il a joué dans la LNH  pour les Rangers de New York, l'Avalanche du Colorado, les Penguins de Pittsburgh et les Islanders de New York. Le , il met un terme à sa carrière. Il n'a disputé aucun match lors de sa dernière saison avec le SKA Saint-Pétersbourg en raison de blessures au genou.

Il ne joue pas entre 2010 et 2013 puis rechausse les patins pour quelques matchs en  championnat lituanien, d'abord pour l'équipe Hockey Punks Vilnius puis pour le SC Energija.

Carrière internationale
Kasparaitis a porté les couleurs de l'équipe nationale russe plutôt que celle de sa Lituanie natale. Il remporte la médaille d'or aux Jeux olympiques d'Albertville en 1992 avec l'équipe unifiée de l'ex-URSS.

En novembre 2017, il dispute son premier match avec la sélection lituanienne en vue de la Division B du Championnat du monde 2018, organisée à Kaunas

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

En club

|1988-1989 ||HK Dinamo Moscou ||URSS ||2||0||0||0||0||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1989-1990 ||Dinamo Moscou ||URSS ||1||0||0||0||0||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1990-1991 ||Dinamo Moscou ||URSS ||17||0||1||1||10||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1991-1992 ||Dinamo Moscou ||Superliga ||24||1||7||8||8||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1992-1993 ||Islanders de New York ||LNH||79||4||17||21||166||18||0||5||5||31
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|1992-1993 ||Dinamo Moscou ||Superliga ||7||1||3||4||8||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1993-1994 ||Islanders de New York ||LNH||76||1||10||11||142||4||0||0||0||8
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|1994-1995 ||Islanders de New York ||LNH||13||0||1||1||22||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1995-1996 ||Islanders de New York ||LNH||46||1||7||8||93||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1996-1997 ||Islanders de New York ||LNH||18||0||5||5||16||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1996-1997 ||Penguins de Pittsburgh ||LNH||57||2||16||18||84||5||0||0||0||6
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|1997-1998 ||Penguins de Pittsburgh ||LNH||81||4||8||12||127||5||0||0||0||8
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|1998-1999 ||Penguins de Pittsburgh ||LNH||48||1||4||5||70||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|1999-2000 ||Penguins de Pittsburgh ||LNH||73||3||12||15||146||11||1||1||2||10
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|2000-2001 ||Penguins de Pittsburgh ||LNH||77||3||16||19||111||17||1||1||2||26
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|2001-2002 ||Penguins de Pittsburgh ||LNH||69||2||12||14||123||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|2001-2002 ||Avalanche du Colorado ||LNH||11||0||0||0||19||21||0||3||3||18
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|2002-2003 ||Rangers de New York ||LNH||80||3||11||14||85||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|2003-2004 ||Rangers de New York ||LNH||44||1||9||10||48||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|2004-2005 ||Ak Bars Kazan ||Superliga ||28||1||3||4||118||3||0||0||0||6
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|2005-2006 ||Rangers de New York ||LNH||67||0||6||6||97||2||0||0||0||0
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|2006-2007 ||Rangers de New York ||LNH||24||2||2||4||30||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|2006-2007 ||Wolf Pack de Hartford ||LAH ||12||0||3||3||8||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|2007-2008 ||Wolf Pack de Hartford ||LAH ||4||1||0||1||4||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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|2007-2008 ||SKA Saint-Pétersbourg ||Superliga ||33 ||1 ||4 ||5 ||80 ||8 ||0 ||1 ||1 ||49
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|2008-2009 ||SKA Saint-Pétersbourg ||KHL || 26|| 0|| 1|| 1|| 34|| || || || ||
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|2009-2010 ||SKA Saint-Pétersbourg ||KHL || 0|| 0|| 0|| 0|| 0|| || || || ||
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| 2013-2014 || Hockey Punks Vilnius || NLRL || 1 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 12 || - || - || - || - || -
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| 2014-2015 || Hockey Punks Vilnius || NLRL || 1 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 0 || - || - || - || - || -
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| 2015-2016 || Hockey Punks Vilnius || NLRL || 3 || 2 || 9 || 11 || 0 || - || - || - || - || -
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| 2016-2017 || Hockey Punks Vilnius || NLRL || 2 || 2 || 5 || 7 || 0 || - || - || - || - || -
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| 2017-2018 || SC Energija || NLRL || 2||0||1||1||2 || - || - || - || - || -

|863||27||136||163||1379||83||2||10||12||107

Au niveau international

| 1990 ||align="left"|   ||align="left"| Championnat d'Europe junior || 6 || 1 || 6 || 7 || 12 ||align="left"|  Deuxième place
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| 1991 ||align="left"|  Union soviétique  ||align="left"| Championnat du monde junior || 6 || 1 || 3 || 4 || 16 ||align="left"|  Deuxième place
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| 1992 ||align="left"|  CÉI  ||align="left"| Championnat du monde junior || 7 || 1 || 5 || 6 || 4 ||align="left"|  Champion
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| 1992 ||align="left"|  Équipe unifiée ||align="left"| Jeux olympiques || 8 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 ||align="left"|  Médaille d'or
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| 1992 ||align="left"|  ||align="left"| Championnat du monde || 6 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 4 ||align="left"| Cinquième place
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| 1996 ||align="left"|  Russie ||align="left"| Championnat du monde || 8 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 ||align="left"| Quatrième place
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| 1998 ||align="left"|  Russie ||align="left"| Jeux olympiques || 6 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 6 ||align="left"|  Médaille d'argent
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| 2002 ||align="left"|  Russie ||align="left"| Jeux olympiques || 6 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 4 ||align="left"|  Médaille de bronze
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| 2004 ||align="left"|  Russie ||align="left"| Coupe du monde || 4 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 8 ||align="left"| Sixième place
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| 2006 ||align="left"|  Russie ||align="left"| Jeux olympiques || 8 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 8 ||align="left"| Quatrième place
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| 2018 ||align="left"|  Lituanie ||align="left"| Championnat du monde Div. B || 5 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 ||align="left"|  place

Références

Naissance en octobre 1972
Naissance à Elektrėnai
Joueur international soviétique de hockey sur glace
Joueur international russe de hockey sur glace
Joueur international lituanien de hockey sur glace
Choix de premier tour au repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH
Choix de repêchage des Islanders de New York
Joueur des Islanders de New York
Joueur des Penguins de Pittsburgh
Joueur de l'Avalanche du Colorado
Joueur des Rangers de New York
Joueur du Wolf Pack de Hartford
Joueur du SKA Saint-Pétersbourg
Joueur du HK Dinamo Moscou
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1992
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1998
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2006
Champion olympique de l'Équipe unifiée
Champion olympique de hockey sur glace
Membre du Temple de la renommée du hockey russe
Médaillé d'argent olympique russe
Défenseur de hockey sur glace
Joueur de l'Ak Bars Kazan
Médaillé de bronze olympique russe
Médaillé aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1992
Médaillé aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1998
Médaillé aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002

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Coffee Alarm Clock « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
How many of you have been late to class, or any other obligation, because you pressed "Snooze" on your alarm clock and went straight back to bed? Better yet, how many times have you had to skip out on your morning cup of joe because you pressed "Snooze" too many times? With this alarm clock, that is no longer a problem.
This project requires two different particle photons: one to control the servo motor and one to control the LCD, buzzer, and photo resistor.
The LCD serves as the alarm clock. The time of the clock is controlled through the coding, while the time of the alarm is controlled through an IFTTT applet. When the alarm goes off, it keeps going off until the photo resistor senses that the lights have been turned on. Once the photo resistor senses that there is enough light, it signals the other particle photon to start moving the servo motor, which in turn starts brewing the coffee.
The servo motor is programmed to move just far enough until there is enough force to push the start button on the coffee maker. The servo motor then moves back to its original position. When the coffee is finished, the particle photon will send a text to your phone saying that your coffee is ready.


Fabrication & Supply of Diesel Storage Tanks to Government of Afghanistan (Job Carried out in Herat Afghanistan) on behalf of Government of India.
Supply of M.S. Rubber Lined Pipes for Effluent service to ONGC URAN under EIL inspection.
Supply of Skid Mounted M.S. Rubber Lined Tanks for ONGC at Bombay High.
Complete Renovation & Modernization of DM Plant Stage – I & II Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Station Bhatinda for Alsthom.
Supply of M.S. Rubber Lined L.P. Piping to Pragati Power Station on behalf of L&T Baroda.
Supply of Acid Storage Tanks (MSRL) to Heavy water Plant Manu Guru Hyderabad.
Supply of MSRL Tanks to Manganese Ore Nagpur.
Supply of Ammunition Mixing Tanks (for Bofors Guns) to Defence factory Bhandara.
Supply of Fabricated Rubber Lined equipments to SIEL Rajpura for their Caustic Soda & Bleaching Powder Plant..


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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
The Undiscovered Mythos
Primary Incision
Her Letters To Lovecraft
The Book of Dzyan (1888) by Helena Blavatsky
greyirish	Review	 December 2, 2020 December 3, 2020 26 Minutes
But there were others he had known merely by reputation or not at all—the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the Book of Dzyan, and a crumbling volume in wholly unidentifiable characters yet with certain symbols and diagrams shudderingly recognisable to the occult student.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Haunter of the Dark" (written 1935)
I learned of the city Shamballah, built by the Lemurians fifty million years ago, yet inviolate still behind its walls of psychic force in the eastern desert. I learned of the Book of Dzyan, whose first six chapters antedate the earth, and which was old when the lords of Venus came through space in their ships to civilise our planet.
—H. P. Lovecraft & William Lumley, "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" (written 1935)
As with The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) by Margaret A. Murray, the Book of Dzyan did not originate in the creative mind of H. P. Lovecraft. Its literary genesis began in the theosophical writings of Helena Blavatsky…and to understand the Book of Dzyan properly requires a knowledge of the founding and development of Theosophy, from the 1870s though its discovery by Lovecraft and his contemporaries at Weird Tales in the 1920s and 30s. Because of the sometimes deliberate myth-making and contradictory claims made by some of the personalities involved, sorting fact from fiction can be a little difficult, but sheds some valuable light on the influence of one of the great occult and spiritual developments of the late 19th and early 20th century on the Weird Tales circle.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky arrived in New York in 1873. At forty-two years old, she was already working as a medium and an occultist in Russia and Europe; now in America, she became involved in Spiritualism, wrote articles and established herself as a medium. In 1875 she claimed to have to have made contact with a group of Egypt-based mystic named the Brotherhood of Luxor, and convinced an associate Henry Steel Olcott to take out an advertisement in the Spiritual Scientist citing their names. Having done so, she convinced Olcott to create the "Miracle Club," a short-lived organization devoted to psychical research. Olcott began to receive letters from the "Brotherhood of Luxor," and William Quan Judge became attracted to the meetings being held in Blavatsky's parlor, and the idea was started to create a society for occult research. Thus the Miracle Club transitioned into the Theosophical Society.
"And while there are those," the mad Arab had written, "who have dared to seek glimpses beyond the Veil, and to accept HIM as a Guide, they would have been more prudent had they avoided commerce with HIM; for it is written in the Book of Thoth how terrific is the price of a single glimpse.["]
—H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (written 1932-33)
In 1875, Blavatsky began work on the book that would become Isis Unveiled. The title is an allusion to the Veil of Isis, promising the revelation of secrets. At this time, the Theosophical Society did not have a firm philosophical or magical framework, beyond Spiritualism that had begun to explore Western occultism. Blavatsky's book would begin to rectify that situation; a mash-up of science, religion, mythology, and occultism which suggests two essential points: that neither contemporary science or religion know the truth of existence, and that there exists a unifying tradition of ancient wisdom represented by occultism. This was long years before Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bought: A Study in Comparative Religion (1890), and the mix of science, occult history, and comparative religion displays an outward modicum of erudition, learnedly quoting from diverse sources in different languages.
Erudition can be faked, however, and accounts of the book's writing are muddled. Blavatsky was not a native English speaker, seems not to have had access to many of the worked cited; Alexander Wilder is credited with silently editing the book's prose, and many of the primary sources were copied from secondary sources—a practice Lovecraft himself would follow in, for example, the invocation in "The Horror at Red Hook" copied from the Encyclopedia Britannica. Isis Unveiled also mentions the Brotherhood of Luxor (vol. 2, ch. 7), and gives them a Rosicrucian origin; the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (founded 1887) would similarly draw on the idea of being descended from, or tied to, an existing occult group to establish its pedigree.
In later years, Blavatsky and her followers would claim Isis Unveiled or parts of it were dictated to her, making this a revealed work like "The Book of the Forgotten Ones" (1977) by Nema Andahadna, but in the text itself she begins:
There exists somewhere in this wide world an old Book — so very old that our modern antiquarians might ponder over its pages an indefinite time, and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written. It is the only original copy now in existence. The most ancient Hebrew document on occult learning — the Siphra Dzeniouta — was compiled from it, and that at a time when the former was already considered in the light of a literary relic.
—H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 1, ch. 1
Not much else on this "old Book" is written, nor are such pseudobiblia limited to Lovecraftian fiction; the Western esoteric tradition is replete with mythical or fictional volumes such as the Book of Thoth or spuriously attributed to legendary figures such as the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. In Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, there is also a tradition of terma, where esoteric teachings may be hidden or concealed in texts that are only discovered later in a system of continuous revelation. So Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, which focuses strongly on the errors of Judeo-Christian religion and the comparable merits of Buddhism, was drawing from very different traditions of occult and esoteric literature…and almost assuredly also from the novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton such as Zanoni (1842) and Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871). Much as Lovecraft was to influence contemporary occultism in works like Necronomicon Gnosis: A Practical Introduction (2007) by Asenath Mason, so did earlier forebears draw inspiration from fiction.
When Isis Unveiled was finally published in 1877, it was not the complete system of Theosophy; it was a precursor to ideas that would be more fully developed in her later books. Blavatsky's habit of not citing the secondary sources she was quoting the primary sources from also eventually brought accusations of plagiarism, most notably from William Emmett Coleman, but it also provided the impetus for her relocation to India, where the Theosophical Society, which had almost sputtered out, could be reincarnated as a viable organization.
Blavatsky and Olcott moved to India in 1879. There she met Alfred Percy Sinnett, who would condense and popularize her ideas in a book titled Esoteric Buddhism (1883). During these years the Theosophical Society grew. Following the Masonic model, individual "lodges" had been formed in different localities by members. Once in London in 1885 she established her Blavatsky Lodge; and in 1888 she established the "Esoteric Section," an inner circle within the society; and the Theosophical Publishing Company. It was this imprint which would publish her massive masterwork, The Secret Doctrine (1888/1889). This treatise purports to be "Stanzas Translated with Commentaries from the Secret Book of Dzyan."
It is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard of the book of Dzyan?
—H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. 1, preface
Like Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine was claimed to draw from an ancient, apocryphal text that Blavatsky had revealed to her by her supposed masters—now "The Great White Brotherhood" or mahatmas—in India and Tibet. Indeed, Blavatsky informs the readers that that book first mentioned in Isis Unveiled is the very same as the Book of Dzyan:
The "very old Book" is the original work from which the many volumes of Kiu-ti were compiled. Not only this latter and the Siphrah Dzeniouta but even the Sepher Jezirah,* the work attributed by the Hebrew Kabalists to their Patriarch Abraham (!), the book of Shu-king, China's primitive Bible, the sacred volumes of the Egyptian Thoth-Hermes, the Puranas in India, and the Chaldean Book of Numbers and the Pentateuch itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. Tradition says, that it was taken down in Senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the Divine Beings, who dictated it to the sons of Light, in Central Asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its language (the Sen-zar) was known to the Initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the Toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost Atlantis, who inherited it, in their turn, from the sages of the 3rd Race, the Manushis, who learnt it direct from the Devas of the 2nd and 1st Races. The "illustration" spoken of in "Isis" relates to the evolution of these Races and of our 4th and 5th Race Humanity in the Vaivasvata Manvantara or "Round"; each Round being composed of the Yugas of the seven periods of Humanity; four of which are now passed in our life cycle, the middle point of the 5th being nearly reached. The illustration is symbolical, as every one can well understand, and covers the ground from the beginning. The old book, having described Cosmic Evolution and explained the origin of everything on earth, including physical man, after giving the true history of the races from the First down to the Fifth (our) race, goes no further. It stops short at the beginning of the Kali Yuga just 4989 years ago at the death of Krishna, the bright "Sun-god," the once living hero and reformer.
—H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. 1, introduction
If Isis Unveiled is the start of Theosophy, The Secret Doctrine is the formal codification of it—a grand cosmogenic saga of revelations, the cycles of the ages, the incarnations of humanity and root races, all couched in a language which is half-derived from Buddhism and Hinduism, occult terminology, Spiritualism, and even a bit of contemporary science.
In 1889, Annie Besant would review The Secret Doctrine, conduct an interview with Blavatsky, and become a convert to Theosophy; Besant would swiftly rise through the ranks and became the President of the Theosophical Society. Blavatsky would continue to write and publish, including The Key to Theosophy and The Voice of Silence in 1889. The Voice of Silence is:
The following pages are derived from "The Book of the Golden Precepts," one of the works put into the hands of mystic students in the East. […] The work from which I here translate forms part of the same series as that from which the "Stanzas" of the Book of Dzyan were taken, on which the Secret Doctrine is based.
—H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of Silence, preface
Helena Blavatsky would die of influenza in 1891. The Theosophical Society would continue to print and re-print her work—and many individual theosophists would expand upon or elaborate the mythology that Blavatsky created. Notable for our purposes is William Scott-Elliot, who in silent collaboration with Charles Webster Leadbeater produced two volumes expanding on Blavatsky's occult history of the root-races: The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904); these would be reprinted in a combined edition The Story of Atlantis & The Lost Lemuria (1925). Scott-Elliot quotes from "The Book of Dzyan" a handful of times; these are taken from the "Stanzas of Dzyan" in The Secret Doctrine.
In the United States, Alice Bailey joined the Theosophical Society in 1917. Like Besant, she began to climb the ranks, and her initial theosophical writings were well-regarded; but in 1921/1922 a dispute with Besant led to Bailey's expulsion from the Society. Undeterred, Bailey formed her own organization and continued writing. Her book A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (1925) contains 13 additional "Stanzas of Dzyan" with Bailey's commentaries on the same. If readers need an analogy, Alice Bailey was to H. P. Blavatsky what August Derleth was to H. P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft had obviously heard of the The Book of Dzyan by at least 1935 when he wrote "The Haunter in the Dark" and co-wrote "The Diary of Alonzo Typer." In other stories and writing he shows at least a basic awareness of the existence of Theosophy and some of its ideas:
At this time a wave of interest in spiritualistic charlatanry, mediumism, Hindoo theosophy, and such matters, much like that of the present day, was flourishing; so that the number of weird tales with a "psychic" or pseudo-scientific basis became very considerable.
—H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (written 1925-1927)
Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden aeons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (written 1926)
A smattering of theosophical lore, and a fondness for the speculations of such writers as Colonel Churchward and Lewis Spence concerning lost continents and primal forgotten civilisations, made Reynolds especially alert toward any aeonian relic like the unknown mummy.
—H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, "Out of the Aeons" (written 1933)
A few of the myths had significant connexions with other cloudy legends of the pre-human world, especially those Hindoo tales involving stupefying gulfs of time and forming part of the lore of modern theosophists.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow out of Time" (written 1935)
The questions start to multiply: Where did Lovecraft learn about the Book of Dzyan? How much did he know or read about Theosophy? How did Helena Blavatsky and her associates influence H. P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries? How did Theosophy influence the Cthulhu Mythos?
It should be stated at the outset that the Mythos as a whole was always more than just H. P. Lovecraft. In creating his artificial mythology, he borrowed elements from writers like Robert E. Howard (Nameless Cults, Bran Mak Morn, etc.), Clark Ashton Smith (The Book of Eibon, Tsathoggua, etc.), and others, and they in turn borrowed from him. In the 1920s and 30s when Lovecraft & co. were in contact with one another, each of them had different opportunities to come into contact with Theosophy and its ideas, and each author used those ideas in their fiction in their own ways. Lemuria and Atlantis, for example, form common elements in the fiction of Howard, Lovecraft, and Smith; but while these all draw some inspiration from the theosophical versions of these legendary lands, they aren't necessarily deliberately working to make them match Theosophy. They were weird talers writing their own fiction with their own settings; informed by Theosophy, but not trying to write expansions of the Blavatsky mythos.
I've also been digesting something of vast interest as background or source material—which has belatedly introduced me to a cycle of myth with which I have reason to believe you are particularly familiar—i.e., the Atlantis-Lemuria tales, as developed by modern occultists & the sophical charlatans. Really, some of these hints about the lost "City of the of the Golden Gates" & the shapeless monsters of archaic Lemuria are ineffably pregnant with fantastic suggestion; & I only wish I could get hold of more of the stuff. What I have read is The Story of Atlantis & the Lost Lemuria, by W. Scott-Elliot.
—H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 17 Jun 1926, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 106
From existing accounts, Lovecraft's first brush with actual Theosophy was W. Scott-Elliot's book, and in "The Call of Cthulhu" the only theosophical text cited is "W. Scott-Elliot's Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria)." Robert E. Howard came across his first information from somewhere else, possibly the Oriental Library Clinic, a journal with some theosophical items:
About Atlantis — I believe something of the sort existed, though I do not especially hold any theory about a high type of civilization existing there — in fact, I doubt that. But some continent was submerged away back, or some large body of land, for practically all peoples have legends about a flood. And the Cro Magnons appeared suddenly in Europe, developed to a high stage of primitive culture; there is no trace to show that they came up the ladder of utter barbarism in Europe. Suddenly their remains are found supplanting the Neanderthal Men, to whom they have no ties of kinship whatever. Where did they originate? Nowhere in the known world, evidently. They must have originated and developed through the different basic stages of evolution in some land which is not now known to us. The occultists say that we are the fifth — I believe — great sub-race. Two unknown and unnamed races came, then the Lemurians, then the Atlanteans, then we. They say the Atlanteans were highly developed. I doubt it. I think they were simply the ancestors of the Cro Magnon men, who by some chance, escaped the fate which overtook the rest of the tribes. All my views on the matter I included in a long letter to the editor to whom I sold a tale entitled "The Shadow Kingdom," which I expect will be published as a foreword to that story — if ever. This tale I wove about a mythical antediluvian empire, a contemporary of Atlantis.
— Robert E. Howard to Harold Preece, 20 Oct 1928, Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard 1.237
Clark Ashton Smith came at it from still a third way, possibly Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism:
It is good to know that you liked this last story. As to that problem of transmission—well, it seems to me that the author has to be omniscient or nothing: though one might get the story out of the "astral records" (preserved somewhere in the ether, and accessible to adepts) which are mentioned in the literature of esoteric Buddhism! The tradition of Hyperborea, Mu and Atlantis were supposedly preserved in these records! […] I have never seen The Riddle of the Pacific, nor the book by Scott-Elliot either, and must find out if they are locally procurable.
— Clark Ashton Smith to H. P. Lovecraft, 17 Nov 1930, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 271-272
Lovecraft & co. do not seem to have deliberately sought out any additional theosophical lore for a while. However, in the intervening period they became friends and correspondents with another weird taler, E. Hoffmann Price—the only man to actually meet all three of them, an ex-army officer and astrologer with a taste for Persian carpets, wine, and occultism. In 1932, Lovecraft visited New Orleans; he was not then in contact with Price, but their mutual friend Robert E. Howard managed to get them in touch with one another. The two men became immediate friends, and even began a collaborative story, a sequel to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key." Later on, Lovecraft would write:
By the way—Price has dug up another cycle of actual folklore involving an allegedly primordial thing called "The Book of Dyzan", [sic] which is supposed to contain all sorts of secrets of the Elder World before the sinking of Kusha (Atlantis) and Shâlmali (Lemuria). It is kept at the Holy City of Shamballah, & is regarded as the oldest book in the world—its language being Senzar (ancestor of Sanscrit), which was brought to earth 18,000,000 years ago by the Lords of Venus. I don't know where E. Hoffmann got hold of this stuff, but it sounds damn good. I shall ask him to spill particulars to you and me—though you may have met this cycle before. It reminds me of the Scott-Elliot stuff connected with theosophy.
— H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, c.10 Feb 1933, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 404
What you say of your new tale, and of the Pushkara-Plaksha-Kusha-Shâlmali-Mt. Wern-Senzar-Dzyan-Shamballah myth-cycle which you have dug up, interests me to fever heat; and I am tempted to overwhelm you with questions as to the source, provenance, general bearings, and bibliography of all this unknown legendry. Where did you find it? How can one get hold of it? What nation or region developed it? Why isn't it mentioned in ordinary works on comparative folklore? What—if any—special cult (like the theosophist, who have concocted a picturesque tradition of Atlanteo-Lemurian elder world stuff, well summarised in a book by W. Scott-Elliott) cherishes it? For gawd's sake, yes—send along those notes, and I'm sure that Klarkash-Ton, High-Priest of Tsathoggua, would (unless he knows about the cycle in question, appreciate them as keenly as I. […] Meanwhile, as I said before, I'm quite on edge about that Dzyan-Shamballah stuff. The cosmic scope of it—Lords of Venus, and all that—sounds so especially and emphatically in my line!
— HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, 15 Feb 1933, Selected Letters 4.153
Price duly copied out a load of quotes from several theosophical books, which he sent to Lovecraft. The notes themselves are not known to survive, but in a later letter, Price describes some of the materials her had transmitted to Lovecraft:
Get Annie Besant's THE PEDIGREE OF MAN. The copy I studied is borrowed, else I would gladly lend it. It came from Theosophic Book Corporation, Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago, and is dated (with owner's signature) Nov. 1910. Published by Theosophical Publishing Society, Theosophist Office, Adyar, Madras, s. 1908. Price, 1 rupee.
Printed by Freeman & Co., Ltd., Tara Printing Works, Benares.
145 pages of text, charts, tables, diagrams: and a mine of occult lore in condensed, terrifically condensed form. Maybe THE OCCULT SOCIETY, 604 Locust St., Phila. Pa. might be able to get it, although their catalog does not list it.
The quotations I sent you are from Leadbeater's INNER LIFE, page 105, under "symbology". Each quotation is the germ of a novelette in my deft hands!
The job I finished last night is based on some of the note I sent you. Help yourself there's enough for all.
W. Scott-Elliot's book has not passed through my hands. I got mine from the sources: Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, 1st edition, with excerpts from the Book of Dzyan.
It is hard reading, some of it—but it's right up your alley. It takes guts to wade through it, unless you have a taste for it; and you have. However, that remains to be seen. Try it and see.
Read, use, copy—and if you please, send on to Klark-Ashton, with request to use, then forward to Barlow. You see, I promised Barlow a piece de resistance: the whole works of a 1st draft, from plot germ–research–prelimary [sic] scribblings–all the dirt & crap of composition. I will do so, and therefore ask you to pass these 4 pages to Smith with this request, so that Barlow will get a real gem, even though not all handwritten.
— E. Hoffmann Price to H. P. Lovecraft, 18 Feb 1933, MSS. John Hay Library
Lovecraft appears to have duly copied the notes and sent them on to various correspondents.
As you have probably recognised, that mystic primal dope from Price (notes of which I'll send you soon) was conventional theosophical stuff (Besant, Leadbeater, &c) after all. Do you know anything about the real source of this? Does it have any real Oriental source, or is it just a synthetic concoction of the theosophists? I've read almost nothing in that line.
— H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 21 Feb 1933, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 406
By the way—it turns out that Price's mystical legendry was, after all, only the stuff promulgated by the theosophists—Besant, Leadbeater, &c. I thought it sounded like that. Do you know anything of the origin of that stuff? It pretends to be real folklore—at least in part (of India, I suppose)—but I have a certain sneaking suspicion that the theosophists themselves have interpolated a lot of dope. There are things which suggest a knowledge of certain 19th century conceptions.
— H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, c.27 Feb 1933, Essential Solitude 2.547-548
Lovecraft's inquiries as to the source of all this material, which was ultimately the Book of Dzyan that Blavatsky had claimed as the ultimate source for so much of her work, would turn up empty:
The Book of Dyzan [sic] is new to me—I haven't read any great amount of theosophical literature. I'd be vastly interested in any dope you or Price can pass on to me. Theosophy, as far as I can gather, is a version of esoteric Yoga prepared for western consumption, so I dare say its legendry must have some sort of basis in ancient Oriental records. One can disregard the theosophy, and make good use of the stuff about elder continents, etc. I got my own ideas about Hyperborea, Poseidonis, etc., from such sources, and then turned my imagination loose.
— Clark Ashton Smith to H. P. Lovecraft, 1 Mar 1933, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 408
The same can no doubt be said of Robert E. Howard, whose versions of Atlantis and Lemuria are different from, but complementary, to Clark Ashton Smith's. For his part, Lovecraft and Price continued to correspond on the subject.
By this time you'll have received the forwarded matter from Price to be sent to Barlow. I am very curious about this holy city of Shamballah, said to exist unimpaired somewhere in the Gobi; though built by the Lemurians or 3d root race several million years ago. It is here that the Book of Dzyan— parts of which are older than the earth—is kept. Shamballah would make a splendid fictional theme. I wonder if any theosophists or Hindoos pretend to have visited it? As you say, the theosophic myth-cycle is probably based on ancient Indian lore with certain 19th century accessions. Price mentions A. P. Sinnett's "Esoteric Buddhism", Besant's "Pedigree of Man", Leadbeater's "Inner Life", & Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine" in his bibliography (I've read none of these)—to which might be added Scott-Elliot's "Atlantis & the Lost Lemuria", which I read some years ago. I think I must do some research along this line when I get the time. I found Scott-Elliot quite an imaginative stimulus. […]
P.S. Just heard from Price. He says that according to theosophists, Shamballah keeps itself from invasion through adverse thought-waves which deflect all attempts to reach it—producing bad weather, apparent accidents, &c.
— H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 15 Mar 1933, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 410, 411
This is what Lovecraft was referring to in "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" when he wrote of "Shamballah, built by the Lemurians fifty million years ago, yet inviolate still behind its walls of psychic force in the eastern desert." Nor does it appear that Lovecraft ever delved much deeper into the fine points of Theosophy, despite assurances in his letters to friends that he should do. From all that Lovecraft was getting second- and third-hand, he'd already decided that pretty much all of Theosophy had to be a 19th century hoax—albeit a fun one:
Thanks exceedingly for the sidelights on the theosophical cycle. Sinnett must surely be a standard authority, since both you & the Peacock Sultan recommend him. This stuff is certainly worth looking up—the matter of the invisible planets being especially promising. As you say, there is probably a good bit of genuine tradition in the lore of theosophy. One thing we can say for the Hindoos is that their mythology shews a better grasp of the earth's transience & insignificance in time & space than any other known to history & anthropology. I wonder how these legends of early things compare with what Col. Churchward claims of the Himalayan priests & their records in the primal Naacal language which tell of sunken Mu?
Obviously, these traditions are very old among the Hindoos; & it would be interesting to discover how they arose. Originally the Aryan creators of Brahmanism had a mythology of personified natural forces homologous to those of the Greeks & Romans, & of our Northern ancestors. Could the theosophical cycle have arisen out of these, or were its germs derived from the non-Aryan subject races of India? Since the Brahmans arrived in India about 2000 B.C., there was plenty of time for the crystallisation of a definite new myth-cycle before the earliest contacts with the Western World. It is not likely that any "Atlantis" ever existed. The evidences of geology & natural history are that no connexion betwixt various Atlantic islands has existed since the appearance of man on the planet. But of course there may well have been important pre-Aryan civilisations & legends in India. Indeed, we know there were pre-Aryan cities on the Indus river.
The notion of the "Akashic" records is indeed an unique one. But I don't think there's much ground for assuming any truth in these tales. To begin with, they assume an antiquity for mankind which is against all the indications of palaeontology & geology. As for the pineal gland—modern endocrinology has fairly well established its actual function in the human system . . . as a regulator of the chemical & biological changes attending adolescence & maturity. But surely the legends lose nothing in picturesqueness & imaginative value through being merely legends. […]
From something Price says, I take it that Blavatsky is the best "authority" anent the Book of Dzyan (not Dyzan, as I first carelessly transcribed it). Accounts of Holy Shamballah would seem to vary—but it's great fictional stuff in any form!
— H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 24 Mar 1933, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 411
The interesting part of this exchange is that Lovecraft appeared quite ready to incorporate some of this theosophical material into the nascent Mythos:
What you say of the theosophy cycle & of the special fictionally developable features interests me tremendously. I simply must look up Blavatsky, Besant, Leadbeater, Sinnett, &c. One could, as you say, derive a whole canon of tales from it. It seems to make my Yog-Sothoth stuff pallid by comparison! These Akashic records tickle my imagination. It is from them, of course, that the Book of Eibon & the Pnakotic Manuscripts were first devised!
— H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 8 Apr 1933, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 414
Glad you duly received the Price notes with data on the theosophical myth-cycle. I copied a good deal of this, & took the names of the books from which Price dug up this dope. Beside the body of tradition, my own Cthulhu-Yog-Sothoth stuff sounds quite pallid & unconvincing! Much of this stuff undoubtedly represents actual beliefs current among the HIndoos, although a great deal has undoubtedly been added by the theosophists of the 19th century. Smith is following this research still further, & has unearthed a great deal of interesting data which Price does not include. It surely does form an admirable background for fantastic fiction.
— H. P. Lovecraft to R. H. Barlow, 9 Apr 1933, O Fortunate Floridian 60
The Lovecraft-Price collaboration went through a couple of drafts. The initial draft was written by Price, and was later published separately as "The Lord of Illusions" (MSS. John Hay Library). As was his habit, Lovecraft completely re-wrote the story in a handwritten draft (MSS. John Hay Library). Another draft of the story, probably typed by Price, is much expanded and includes several theosophical references (MSS. John Hay Library); a letter from Price to Lovecraft contains several notes on this or a related draft (MSS. John Hay Library), including more theosophical lore and even a lengthy quote from Blavatsky's The Voice of Silence. Ultimately, the theosophical references were dropped from the final version of the story which appeared in the July 1934 issue of Weird Tales—with the main surviving remnant being, perhaps, the "Swami Chandraputra."
By the summer of 1933, Lovecraft has absorbed about as much theosophical knowledge that he can confidently rattle off a list of titles to a correspondent:
Another cycle of impressive-sounding folklore or pseudo-folklore is that sponsored by the modern theosophists. Some of this is undoubtedly genuine Hindoo myth, but I suspect that the cult of theosophists has mixed with it a great deal of synthetic fakery of 19th century origin. The best books of this sort of thing to read are the following:
Besant, Annie—The Pedigree of Man
Blavatsky, Helena—The Secret Doctrine
Leadbeater—The Inner Life
Scott-Elliot, W.—Atlantis & the Lost Lemuria
Sinnett, A. P.—Esoteric Buddhism
More of this stuff can be found in the catalogues of the Occult Society, 604 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa. Those theosophical mystifications involved vast gulfs of time & cycles of change—pre-human aeons & life coming from other planets—not found in other folklore.
— H. P. Lovecraft to Natalie H. Wooley, 18 Jul 1933, Letters to Robert Bloch & Others 190-191
There are a handful of other references to Theosophy and the Book of Dzyan in the letters of H. P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries, but they are few, far between, and show no greater knowledge of the theosophical texts than what Lovecraft already had in 1933. Near the end of his life, however, he finally managed to get access to one of the books he had heard about:
Thanks, by the way, for the loan of the Blavatsky opus—which I shall read with the most intense interest. I've never read any of the classics of theosophy, though I've always been meaning to. I wonder if anybody has ever tried to isolate the real Oriental folklore in them from the 19th century fakery & interpolations? I may have fumbled the allusion to the Book of Dzyan, since all I know about it is something in a letter of Price's which spoke of the early parts as having been brought from an older solar system than ours. Of course the text ridiculed in the Necronomicon is the merest imitation!
— H. P. Lovecraft to Henry Kuttner, 30 Nov 1936, Letters to C. L. Moore & Others 257
This was probably The Secret Doctrine. However, at this point Lovecraft already dying, and it seems unlikely he managed to wade through its 1,500+ pages in the few months remaining to him. The last word on Price's theosophical notes came over a decade after Lovecraft's death:
I imagine that Lovecraft derived his information about Shamballah from E. Hoffmann Price, who in turn probably drew the data from Blavatsky or some other theosophical authority. I have some notes that Price gave me, in which Shamballah is mentioned:
"The word came from Shamballah, the Holy City, to destroy Atlantis 850,000 years ago, and overthrow the Lords of the Dark Face. The divine race of Aarab escaped the catastrophe, and in Al Yemen they reared the mighty Himyar palaces, with prodigious bulks, uncounted domes."
S. is supposed to exist, invisible, somewhere in the Gobi desert. It was, I seem to remember, built by the lords of the Flame who came down from Venus. In it is kept the Book of Dzyan, older than the world.
— Clark Ashton Smith to Donald Wandrei, 27 Oct 1948, Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith 354-355
It plays like a telephone game. H. P. Blavatsky invents a fictional book for Isis Unveiled, fleshes it out in The Secret Doctrine and The Voice of Silence; other writers like W. Scott-Elliot and Alice Bailey write their own books expanding on it, and so the idea of the Book of Dzyan is carried to H. P. Lovecraft, who plops it into some of his final stories, and thus makes Theosophy and the Book of Dzyan an extension of the Cthulhu Mythos—which, to be fair, also already implicitly includes real-world works like the Christian Bible, Jewish Talmud, Islamic Koran, etc., but those books aren't listed among the Mythos tomes in the library of the Church of the Starry Wisdom.
At least one friend tweaked his nose about how he presented the book in "The Haunter of the Dark":
On that same page, I might suggest that while the Book of Dzyan could be used by a malignant cult, its connotation is quite the opposite. The original is supposed to be in Shamballah, where it was deposited by the children of the fire mist, when they came to earth 18 million years ago, from Venus.
— E. Hoffmann Price to H. P. Lovecraft, 3 Feb 1936, MSS. John Hay Library
Blavatsky always alleged that she was drawing from a real source; scholars have yet to identify any esoteric Buddhist work which matches the Stanzas of Dzyan, though not for lack of trying (see Blavatsky's Secret Books). Looking at the history of her writing and development, the idea that the whole Book of Dzyan is essentially a fabrication, a close cousin of the Necronomicon, seems abundantly clear—but it becomes a matter of trust and faith. For those who believe in Theosophy, the Book of Dzyan may be as real and accurate as the Book of Mormon is to the Church of Latter Day Saints.
In the Mythos, however, it is mostly one tome among many. At least two dozen stories reference the Book of Dzyan, some only occupying space on a Mythos bookshelf (especially in the Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game), a few in greater detail. Ex Libris Miskatonici (1993) by Joan C. Stanley and Dan Harms in The Starry Wisdom Library (2014) give Blavatsky's book rather more attention and respect, attempting to parse the difference between Theosophy's cosmic vision and Lovecraft's cosmic horror. Stanley makes no bones; she claims that this is completely separate from the Theosophical book of the same name. Harms' version pays homage to Stanley's, but hews closer to the source material, trying to thread the needle that would make the Book of Dzyan more realistic, and yet distinct from Blavatsky's version.
The wider impact of Theosophy—and thus The Secret Doctrine's—influence on the Mythos and Lovecraftian literature is much wider but more nebulous. Lovecraft and his contemporaries didn't replicate much of the inherent racism and antisemitism present in Blavatsky's writing, but it's difficult not to see the influence of those cycles of humanity in Robert E. Howard's "Hyborian Age" essay, and by extension the tales of Kull, Conan, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and Turlough Dubh O'Brien; in the Atlantis, Poseidonis, and Hyperborea cycles of Clark Ashton Smith; in "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow out of Time," and however many stories that came after, drawing on or referencing those traditions…and other media besides. When the time comes to look up information on the Mythos in "The Collect Call of Cathulhu," an episode of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, Egon tells Ray to check the Book of Dzyan. (The Necronomicon Files 287)
Beyond even that…the Lovecraftian occult has a habit of seizing on any occult reference in the Mythos and weaving that thread into their own tapestry. Kenneth Grant considered Blavatsky's Book of Dzyan and Lovecraft's Necronomicon "akashic grimoires" (The Necronomicon Files 110).
Readers that want a version of The Book of Dzyan on their shelves could do worse than The Book of Dzyan: The Known Text, The Secret Doctrine, Additional Sources, A Life of Mme. Blavatsky (2000, Chaosium), part of the Call of Cthulhu Fiction series.
For the biographical details of Blavatsky's life, this article largely relies on Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (1980) by Marion Meade.
Thanks to Rick Lai for transcripts of E. Hoffmann Price's letters.
Bobby Derie is the author of Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard & Others (2019) and Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos (2014).
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Ann M. Reynolds, M.D., from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, and colleagues compared sleep habits in young children ages 2 to 5 years old. Parents of 522 children with ASD, 228 children with other developmental delays and disorders with ASD (DD w/ASD), 534 children with DD without ASD characteristics (DD w/o ASD), and 703 children from the general population completed the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ). The authors compared the mean total score and subscale scores of the CSHQ between the groups.
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So my name is Dr. Yngvild Olsen and I am in addiction medicine physician specialist, here in Baltimore City. Today, we're going to be talking about opioid addiction and its treatment. So we're going to start with a case. This is a 38-year-old female who's been using heroin and cocaine intravenously for about 20 years, has never been in treatment, but had to prior arrests for possession, serving sentences for both. She has hepatitis C, depression, hypertension, and diabetes, but unfortunately no regular health care. She came to the emergency department for a headache, and had a very elevated blood pressure of 190 over 110, and a finger stick that was very high at 380. The emergency department physician, mentioned substance use disorder treatment, including a medication, perhaps methadone or buprenorphine. But she has a number of questions. Isn't being on one of those medications particularly methadone or buprenorphine, just substituting one addiction for another? How long would I need to take it? What will happen to me while I was taking either of those medicines? Will I go through withdrawal if I want to come off? What about that injectible medication I've heard so much about? So let's make sure that we're all on the same page as to what it is that we're talking about. So let's start with some basic definitions, particularly of addiction, because it is key to understand what this is. There are a number of different organizations including the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and most recently in the surgeon general's report, on alcohol drugs and health, that all have definitions of addiction, but that share different pieces of that definition. So for example ASAM, says that this is a primary chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and other circuitry. NIDA calls addiction as a chronic relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking. The Surgeon General, describes addiction as a chronic brain disease that has the potential for recurrence and recovery. The keywords here are that it is a chronic, relapsing disease of the brain, but that has chance for recovery. Another way to think about this, is as substance use disorders. This is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for the American Psychiatric Association. That manual describes a group of diagnosis, that all have common predisposing factors, brain dysfunction and diagnostic features. But they are separated by the specific substance involved, and they are also then characterized as mild, moderate or severe, based on how many of those diagnostic features are present. When we say addiction is a chronic disease, what does that really mean? Well, for one it means that there is no cure. However, as recovery, the goal is lifelong management of the disease. The disease severity may change over time, but the risk of symptom recurrence is always present. As with many other chronic diseases like diabetes or high blood pressure, effective treatments often combine medications and behavioral interventions. Behavior change is a key part of management but it occurs in stages. This is one model of how we can think about behavior change. Based on the work from Prochaska and DiClemente, and it takes people through different stages. From what's called pre-contemplation, when really people don't think that they have a problem at all, to contemplation, preparation and action, when people really start changing their behavior, and the maintenance, which is really the recovery stage, and people then are sustaining and strengthening the changes they have made. We'll get back to this later. So the question I often get asked is, why do some people develop an addiction and others don't? The answer lies in the complex interactions of multiple factors, including having to do with biology and genes, the environment and some mechanisms related to the drug themselves. Really creating a perfect storm in any one individual. So in terms of the genetic contribution, we know that about 40 to 60 percent of the risk of developing a substance use disorder is genetically based. Although we have research showing us some of what those genetic variants may be, there's probably not just one that is involved. To date, up to a 100 genetic variants, have been identified. The genetic risks related to those, is probably not specific to one type of substance use disorder. In addition, research is ongoing to clarify the exact functional significance of these different genetic variants or so-called physio genetics. Interestingly, some of those genetic variants may really be more implicated in responses to different medications, an area that's called now pharmacogenetics. A lot of research is ongoing, to try and further elucidate both the physiogenetics, as well as the pharmacogenetics. The other major risk factor for people with substance use disorders, is the presence of other mental illnesses. We know that about 35 percent of people who have an alcohol use disorder, and over 50 percent of those with a drug use disorder, have some other type of mental illness. There's some data to suggest that children with ADHD, particularly when untreated, are at higher risk for cocaine use disorder later in life. This shows you some of the odds ratios for both alcohol and drug use disorder, and their relations to any other lifetime mental illness. This is old data but as you can see, the people with alcohol or drug use disorders have much higher odds of schizophrenia, affective, or mood disorders such as depression or anxiety. A third major risk factor that we are now beginning to understand much better, is the impact of trauma. This is data from the adverse childhood experiences study, that interviewed over 8,000 adult men and women in the general population across the US, and asked about history of abuse, neglect and other types of traumatic experiences, prior to the age of 18. They assigned each participant what's called an ACE score or an adverse childhood experience score, based on the number of those experiences, anywhere between zero and five or more. In this general population, 67 percent had at least one adverse childhood experience. Forty two percent had two or more. Remember this is among the general public. So trauma is really common. Here, this slide shows you some of the relationship of these ACE scores to ever having had a drug problem, ever being addicted to drugs or injecting illicit drugs. As you can see, as the ACE score increases, the odds of these outcomes related to drug use, go up significantly. So trauma is certainly something we need to really be on the lookout for. The age of first use is also important. Because multiple studies demonstrate that there is a higher risk of adult onset substance use disorders, with early onset of use before the age of 14. As the ACE study showed us, that in kids who have experienced childhood trauma, they are much more likely to use substances particularly early on. The impact of early onset of substance use and its association with substance use disorders in adulthood, is probably related to the higher vulnerability of the adolescent brain, as it goes through significant developmental changes up until about age 25. We also think that there may be some differential gene expression during adolescents compared to adulthood. So those genetic predispositions, really may play a big part of why adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of substance use. The other significant area that we need to think about in terms of risk factors, has to do with the addictive potential of different substances. So for example, the faster a drug gets to the brain, the higher the addictive potential. So snorting, smoking, injecting, gets substances to the brain really fast, much more so than taking a medication or substance orally, or putting it on the skin and having it absorbed through that way. The shorter acting a drug is, the higher the addictive the potential. So things like heroin, cocaine, Xanax which is a very short acting benzodiazepine, have a much higher addictive potential compared to things like methadone or buprenorphine, that are taken orally and act much more slowly and much longer. The more potent that drugs are, the higher the addictive potential because it takes less of the drug to achieve an effect. So things like heroin, cocaine, now fentanyl, and all the illicit fentanyl analogs that are driving the opioid epidemic and fatal overdoses, they're extremely potent. 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Congratulations to Isabelle Leahy who scooped the €7,600 Coachford AFC Lotto . The numbers drawn were 2, 7, 12. The Lucky Dip winners were Tim Joe Lyons(€40), Lisa Murphy, Tina Herlihy, Stephen Crowley and David Murphy (€20 each). Next week's jackpot is back to €1,000 and the draw takes place in O' Riordan's Bar.
Coachford National School received their third Green Flag on Tuesday June 18th. This flag was presented to the school in recognition of the water themed projects that the children took part in during the year. The projects ranged from studying the freshwater life in our rivers to conducting water filtration experiments and visiting the water treatment plant in Inniscarra. The children got up close to a lot of the insects that inhabit our rivers and streams and had great fun learning all about water. The school held a special water day where the children dressed in blue and took part in many water based games and quizzes. At the presentation of the flag, talks on water conservation, the flooding of the Lee Valley and protecting our water supplies were given to the students. Well done to all involved in this excellent, worthwhile and educational project.
A fire broke out at Pat and Ann Kelleher's PK Rubber Recycling plant at Roovesmore in Coachford last weekend. The fire which destroyed a lot of the tyres stored at the facility burned for hours from early on Saturday morning and the black smoke could be seen from miles around. There were a fleet of Fire brigades at the scene for over twelve hours but thankfully no one was injured and it's business as usual at the rubber plant.
Congratulations to Stephanie Cotter who won gold in the recent AVIVA Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. Stephanie, representing Coachford College was first cross the tape in the 800m final in a time of 2.19.54. This championship is the highlight of the schools athletic year and brings Ireland's top young athletes together for one day of intensive competition.
Coachford Cycling Club is holding their annual Sportive on Sunday June 23rd All are welcome! Routes will cater for everyone from the enthusiastic beginner to the serious amateur. Parking and changing facilities will be provided at the GAA Complex, and there will be food and water stops along the way.


The stone at the center of this piece is glass rather than sapphire, but it's far more precious. It comes from a set of cufflinks passed on to me by my zayde, my maternal grandfather. He passed away when I was in elementary school, and his cufflinks were one of my favorite mementos of him. When the links finally fell apart, I decided to repurpose their deep blue rhinestones.
I had been wanting to make a Turkic-style hamsa for a while, but didn't want to use the classic evil eye that is usually found at the center of those designs. My zayde's rhinestones were the perfect color match to the cobalt blue of the traditional nazar, and shaped like an eye to boot.
I wanted the hamsa to look like an amulet that was much older than it is, so I did very little polishing of the piece. I did take care to make sure I'd filed and sanded the edges of the piece well, thanks to a lesson beaten into me by my high school jewelry teacher, but I left the firescale on from the soldering process and left work marks on the surface rather than sanding them out. I wanted it to seem like the metal had been beaten and worn through the years since the rhinestone set in it had traveled from my zayde's wrists to my neck. May his memory be for a blessing!


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Q: How can I use Material Design Lite with webpack? I've been playing around with ReactJs and I'm needing to call componentHandler.upgradeDom() in each componentDidMount() handler.
Is there a way to not have to call upgradeDom on globally defined componentHandler and instead use webpack to import material design lite as a module?

A: There is this discussion on github but it doesn't look like the library will be upgraded soon to export componentHandler.
So instead I used the exports-loader plugin for webpack. My webpack.config.js looks like this:
module: {
    loaders: [
        { test: /\.js$/, loader: 'jsx-loader?insertPragma=React.DOM&harmony' },
        { test: /\.js$/, loader: 'exports-loader' }
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Q: Selected objects on Mac show background highlight instead of bounding rectangle highlight I have a Qt application that I am porting to mac.
There are some objects (images) shown in QListView or QTableView, in IconMode, that, when selected, in Windows and Linux get highlighted (a rectangle holding the object, which has colored background - gray if the item is selected but no focus, light blue if the item has focus, slightly more intense blue if the item is selected and has focus - this is probably the default behavior for selection, based on selected color scheme).
On mac the only thing that shows is a tiny dot under the object, and if the object in the view is transparent, light blue shows inside the object - but no selection rectangle. Nothing changes if the object has focus, and if the object is not transparent, only the tiny dot under the object shows.
Once objects are moved on the canvas, mac shows selection as needed, on a bounding rectangle, only inside the listview and tableview the bounding rectangle is invisible.
The form was created using the Designer... the listView property QListView.selectionRectVisible is checked.
I can't see what makes that happen... but I have tried
#if defined (Q_OS_MACX)
    m_ui->lv1->setAttribute(Qt::WA_MacShowFocusRect, true);
    m_ui->lv1->UseCustomSelectionColors(true);  // documentation shows this but it doesn't build
    m_ui->lv1->setSelectionRectVisible(true);
#endif

for the mac, and it does not make any difference.
What else can I try, to show selection of objects  ?
Qt 4.8
Edit: found a site that has an example for a tiled list view... among other things it draws a visible rectangle around the selected items...
It seems like a very complicated way to do something that seems to be already implemented - highlighting a selected object - I will do it if I have to but I am hoping that I do not have to add something too complicated for the mac version, that will not be used in any other platforms...
There has to be a way to use the normal properties and methods of listview and tableview to make sure that the background of the bounding rectangle, not just the background of the item, shows when a selection is made ?
I don't know if this is a typical mac behavior...
Update
While I really try not to overwrite the desired default system behavior, I tried to force list behavior...
#if defined (Q_OS_MACX)
    QString stylesheet = "";
    stylesheet += "QListView::item:selected:active:hover{background-color:red;}";
    stylesheet += "QListView::item:selected:active:!hover{background-color:blue;}";
    stylesheet += "QListView::item:selected:!active{background-color:yellow;}";
    stylesheet += "QListView::item:!selected:hover{background-color:green;}";
    setStyleSheet(stylesheet);
#endif

The problem is, I need the system colors, I cannot define my own since they will not match the rest of the app window...
What are the names of the system colors for hover, select (strong), select (but no focus), select (but not active) ?
I have tried using
stylesheet += "QListView::item:selected:active:hover{background-color:Highlight;}";

In windows, this looks ok - because it probably is not recognized so it is ignored... On mac, still ignored. And I have not seen any other names for backgrounds. I tried it with lowercase as well.

A: I ended up using a style sheet - as in the update to my question - with hard-coded color values for the osx blue theme.


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Hello Onyx. Today was the Boston Marathon; one of my favourite marathons so I was feeling inspired to run. Well, Onyx was not in the same frame of mind. I found her snuggled with her stuffed animal on her bed. We also ran into a friend at the beginning of our run, so Onyx enjoyed just chilling. Once on the move, I definitely had to pull out my best coaching skills but we did get a 6:12/km. We also found the ghost grafitti that keeps getting relocated around Calgary. Onyx looked pretty against it with her pink harness. The Scoop: 2 poops and 2 pees. Thanks Sweet Girl for getting some fresh air!