| Show LECTURE ON THEOSOPHY 2 william Q judge of new york a mient theosophist who has bae been with the society from its aniz atlon sixteen yea years ago until e present resent delivered a lecture on the meet of theosophy at the di hotel last night the society has allx branch anch in this city consisting of only few members presided over by mr bo in lloyd that gentleman had urge of last night nighta a meeting and produced trod the speaker who said in betance bet anoe h IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE scover cover the vast range of the subject in one lecture and his purpose would be to give his audience a general idea ot if the grounds on which theosophists their belief the object of his was merely to aid in creating a t nucleus here which would encourage sr men to t think bink and examine for them 31 selves ives a and dl to help carry out the true tty irit of the brotherhood of man the and nations as well fall far sort of this this aim V 1 the two classes classee interested in human wai K pro arese ess are the phi philanthropic Il and the 0 I 1 devout devout and both when any unfamiliar fc hems for ouch euch progress to is submitted te them are sure to point out that mere mare diets alefs have wholly failed they say ith entire correctness that not a new platform tforia or church Is needed but some it ng with an object and an impulse L ark inthe the middle ages the church held that no one had a right to speak conary to scripture and the latter said ae e winds CAMO came from the four corners F the world therefore everybody must leve that the world was square that ke e bible said the world was six tousand usand io nd years old and those who did d id biot believe in it must go fro to prison we know better now scientific and had materialism en n revolted we it some of the churches have not yet ven u up these dogmas spirituality lity is ingrained in man lout bat t there e is divorce between religion science christianity would toe food enough but church unity is s all have had while pretending ding to ollow follow jesus we ve been bee Q following the 01 oli I 1 law the religion that covers the world is oriental vic in origin and spirit the kadence of today comes from aristotle and we are only living over the past some think that theosophy means Brah miniam inthe religion of india we find in an all rt religions one truth most of them have one god 0 one heaven and the doctrine of rewards ais and punishments we also find idolatry in some form almost everywhere even in america we have the idolatry of the almighty dollar jesus and buddha are at the basis alike and thu this basis is what we want to find an underlying lying truth greece and rome had the greater and lesser myr mysteries to 10 which all their noted men were taught the universal truth evolution WAS known then and we are going back to t find and those truths all forms in nature were farat evolved in the astral plan and there were gathered the materials which made them visible the story of adam is only an allegory life in ID aden was the of astral bodies and the material body was afterwards added it to is admitted that the bmw nine and ami d besires are separate from the will and ami judgment at death both bassion and desire unite with the astral body and the natural body is 18 a castoff cast off gari garment nent it is the astral body which comes back in spiritual eean se ances cos this itself will die it is not the immortal nature here comes colnes in the fact of re no one life is adequate to a mans development again and again must he come to earth to taste its quality to lay jay up its experience and its discipline each career on earth determining ter mining the nature of its successor two things follow I 1 our present state discloses what we have accomplished dished in past lives 2 our present babito habile decide what the next life shall be the formative power is lodged iu in us our aspiration prompting our will effecting the aim desired retribution or reward comes in incarnation reincarnation re this is not new by it we explain differences in character why is a child born in and you here without reincarnation the christian scheme to is a failure after years of investigation our greatest men are satis satisfied fled of the correctness ol of this theory only by it can genius be explained and not on the theory of heredity the character is made by the ergo itself we cant change human character by death man is the key of evolution matter is life living receives the impressions of thought we are all responsible for ourselves and to some extent for others an well does any one follow in practice christian ethics the cheek and cheek and the cost coal and cloak doctrine here are christian gentiles trying to punish the mormons cormons Mor mons for carrying out the doctrines doctrine of the bible the e evils of the day cannot annot be cured by legislation As to the relation of this doctrine of the epo ego to evolution when it A haft ban once reached man it never goes back to a lower order of existence such as the mineral or vegetable while all sprung from a common ancestor yet man never cpru bg arm the ape ap nor to is the ape a degenerated mat mao we are mortal all ail were once in ohp mineral kingdom and have ad banceu the spark once started never goes back this movable and moving threshold of the COU con new chent then appears in all nature it can only be the result of two cans causes either laber an inner and a higher consciousness ness is shaping and transforming matter with a definite and intelligent end in view or it is the result of blindly acting law working as we have said under the despotic need of unintelligent tell igent force anti and if we are compelled to admit an inner and a higher consciousness in any single effort of step we shall be forced to admit a higher consciousness in all and the question as whether man has a higher or soul is once more answered by the biological argument in the affirmative and again we are driven to the conclusion that since this higher consciousness is not dot dependent in any way upon the matter which it shapes to further its ends ue aa a potter might for its continued existence then it does not and indeed can riot not die upon the death or transformation of the latter on the contrary analogy points to the fact that as ais a man wears out and casts aside as useless many tools or gat gai garments ments in the course of the labora of a life so his hie higher eo ago must wear out and renew many bodies in the course obits infinite pilgrimage here once agnan agnin the fact of and reason fur for reincarnation meets us squarely as the logical result of biological investigation and as the u universe diverse is the creation of its higher self or the creative logos of st john aud and which though as spirit infinitely lilg higher iier still as the absolute includes alao its lower self or matter so mans lower personality is the creation of his bis higher includes without being limited in any manner by it except perhaps as a mee mechanic banio might be limited by more or less lem perfect or imperfect tools man is 18 represented by the christian apostle as composed of body soul and spirit theosophy views him as ot sevenfold nature first the body that which we see se second the life principle third the astral body which is material but more refined and ethereal than the body next the passions and desires de eires then the immortal soul or per bonal spirit and last the universal api pi rit dwelling wit within hits |
