Show MR WRIGHTS LECTURE AX INTERESTING ADDRESS OXY OX-Y LAST EYEMTjG He Gives His Reason For Believing in a rreExi tence Many Questions Ques-tions Aaled anti Answered Claude Falls Wright delivered his second sec-ond lecture on Theosophy last night to a crowded audience In the Unity hall The topic was Reincarnation Mr Wright treated the subject from the standpoint of an argument showing the various reasons for believing in preexistence and previous lives on earth In effect ho said that the fact that reincarnation re-incarnation had been held as a belief by all tho advanced thinkers of antiquity should be an argument in favor or it It was he said a teaching of early Christianity Chris-tianity but had been lost or forgotten The ancients had produced as great thinkers as men of the present day and In some ways greater for all we know is but a modification of their theories Reincarnation was a universal belief in the past and outside Christian nations Js at the present time The philosophy as outlined today in modern theosophy teaches that the soul or self of each man has come from Brahma or the spirit in nature is In fact a center of consciousness In that spirit It has to understand every phase of I material sentient life before it can regain I re-gain its freedom This is called its triumph over matter The souls of the present men have been born many times previously as men and will be again until they have conquered the flesh Religions Re-ligions of all nations have come into being be-ing merely through the teachings of those who were to show men how to thus advance Every man takes his position among other men as a result of the power he has achieved through the conquering of himself All the souls on earth have been here previously there are no new ones born now Consequently all the people hers have been In other Sand S-and civilizations and helped to form them That the world apparently increases In population every now and then means only that occasionally more souls or people peo-ple will appear on earth than at others just as there is sometimes a spring tide That this should happen Is explained by the fact that between two lives there is a long rest in what is called by the Hindus Devachan and by the Christians I Chris-tians heaven But all souls do not stay there the same length of time Consequently Conse-quently occasionally the world will be more crowded than at other times These successive lives of men are In accordance with the well known law of cycles day and night sleeping and waking wak-ing summer and winter ebb and flow light and darkness and life and death Each mans birth and destiny Is largely governed by what he has done in past lives Whatsoei er a man sowpth that he shall reap ThIs is called by the Buddhpts Karma and is the explanation of the apparent Injustice of one mans being born aklne and another a pauper one man rich and another poor or miserable It Is because each has merited his position by his actions ac-tions in previous lIves To have good I come to one now Is to have merited good in a previous life Similarly intellectual and artistic Qualities Quali-ties are explained Abraham Lincoln I Shnkepoeare and Jo enh Hoffman are I pxamnlps of geniuses born in low fomi use who onlY pos e < > < 3Sfl their canatalities through previous struggles and merit I Friends that are made In a few minutes are eo made because the persons have known and loved one another years ago and are really but renewing their ac qwninfancishit Huxlev has lately said much to IndIcate the truth of reincarnation His lecture j on Evolution and Ethics is an example of that And the speech made by Lord Salisbury at the opening of the British association in August last shows distinct ly that something more than evolution Is wanted Mr Wright then brought forward proofs from the Bible and Christianity of reincarnation and then read a letter from a prominent journalist stating that he recollected a past incarnation A number of questions were then aske < land l-and he meeting adjourned at a late hour ilr Wright lectures tonight on Occultism Occul-tism in Unity hall and takes the Rev 3Ir Hunters place in the pulpit this morning In an address on Esoteric Christianity j |