Show THE THEOSOPHISTS IErriNG OP THE LOCAl SOCIETY YESTERDAY MOUSING I Tork of the Lotus CirclePresident Taylor Interesting Address on It u Doctrine of Reincarnation the Doctrne t I Theosophical society held their The Thesophi I usual Sunday meeting at their rooms > building In spite of 50i 505 Progress buidi < the inclement weather ithere was a lair attendance The Lotus circle met from 10 a m P Lynn has W l1a to 11 a m r charge 1 of this class The exercises reading a selection from consisted of selecton consiste Silence This was followed the VoIce of Sience lowed by singing and then the child Jow singng to life ren repeated verses pertaining t lrE After this had memorized f which they memorzed I a lesson was given on the primary deduced a colors from which was 0 theosophical truth One little boy was He is favorite color asked what your eplled blue Why He answered because blue I cause pIed the heaven is blue and heaven I is everywhere II The regular meeting opened at 11 I oclock reguar president Mr A V Taylor read an extract from the r > i o L tIt o nrViipVi 1 is nart of The Mahabharata JJliy ilvCtU VJ1CO or llfAiawA the great w t epic poem t of India The idea presented helped It to illustrate the doctrine of reincarnation reincarna-tion which was the theme of the morn ins I fAs a man throweth away old garments a ments and putteth on new even so the dweller In the body having quitted its h baviz quited is dweler I t old mortal frames entereth into others to which are new Death i certain all things which are born and rebirth I al all mortals Therefore it doth not behoove thee to grieve about the Inevitable In-evitable Mr Taylor then spoke a follows I about reincarnation II reincarnation be true and we believed I lieved it to be it would change the toasls of the world our ideas aims and l dbjecta would be different The western west-ern world does not believe in reincar er nation To us it comes as a new idea strangely new oral is rejected But reincarnation Is creeping in people are beginning to believe it unconsciously unconscious-ly We find this idea appearing in various articles and remarks There are two points of view to be considered I 5n connection with this subject Some persons reject the idea of reincarnation l Kegatively the reject it for the very I same reason that ti jy do the old orthodox Idea of heavena place where I there are pearly gates golden streets f I and people spend their time in eternal singing This conception of heaven is dying out because people are growing away from it The other class of persons per-sons who reject reincarnation are those who have ideas on the hereafter which are more or less definite TalkIng Talk-Ing with one of this class I asked what he believed What were his ideas off of-f the hereafter What takes place after death The answer was after we pass out of this Ufe we go into other I fiDheres of activity other planes of life and go on said on forever This class believe in a progressive heaven I In which one goes into another state of life different from this and gains I other experiences I this i true then I man Is outside of all the laws of nature na-ture Nowhere in nature do we find this skipping of experiences or planes of life through hich the monad or coal has to pass The flower does not bloom until 1 has been through all the planes which bring it to perfection perfec-tion Natures movements are orderly and regular There are no skipping JBO lapses Before life can pass from one plane to another it has to be perfected I I per-fected on the lower plane Observation Observa-tion in biology botany or any branch I or science teaches this The idea oft of-t n progressive heaven is outside of the j general law of nature Man is only apart a-part of nature after all We may stand on the very highest plane but we are part and parcel of the world that surrounds sur-rounds u God is in the stones a well tn man God is everywhere I Observe man in various conditions 1 from the savage to the highest type as Emerson I the savage lives but f once and Emerson lives but once the t experience of these two types is vastly i different There 1 a great a degree of difference between the life of i diferec lbtween le an I Emerson and that of a savage a between I be-tween a savage and an animal I f Emerson lived only once and never 1 4 came back again the question is where I Hid Emerson get his character I + Emerson never existed before and the savage Is created for the first time I then there must be some terrible injustice in-justice because the experience of the one i s much larger than that of the I other b comparison I may b said I that the savage in another life will t have an opportunity to obtain the experience I ex-perience which Emerson did in this But even if the savage reaches Emer j sons experience wU not Emerson be I ahead Then God has created one soul immeasureabiy In advance of ant an-t other We recognize the absurdity and f unfairness of such a proposition l e I man i part of nature then he f must be governed Tjy the general natural na-tural laws and go through an orderly t y urocess of development the savage TV ho dies t skip all experiences and be I transformed Into a God or angel Reincarnation Re-incarnation is the only logical explana Ki ktion of this problem Hume said that tj iTelncarnation Js the only logical theory that had ever been advanced to explain i i ex-plain the human soul Schopenhauer the great German philosopher says tie same thing This theory explains etr It clearlv implants hope > = within us and this helps us more than I anything else ese How often we hear the expression of old people I I could only live < my life over again This is an intuitive in-tuitive expression of the soul to once more try life We must recognize that that soul will live again The question is asked if we lived before be-fore why do we not remember our past experience Dr Utter in last Sundays sermon referring to St Paul conveyed the idea that if reincarnation reincarna-tion is to be upheld or believed then S1 Paul may have been on earth many times since he departed 1SOO years ago but if he ha been here we have not known i The idea that we must necessarily remember our past lives is not logical I is a great blessing bles-sing that we can forget I our past in all its details should confront us it would crush us Mr Taylor closed his remarks by pointing out that the mainspring of our being Is character and that the ages upbuild this step b step without with-out lapse or kipping That death is necessary a much a sleep so that we may have a period of pralaya or rest in order to be ready for the future existence orer istence That by the law of attraction attrac-tion our souls will attract that body which will help best to gain the needed experience on another plane The study class will meet Monday evening at 8 p m subject Secret Doctrine |