THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 7

THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE

In his lecture "Seven Reasons for Reincarnation" at the Theosophical Hall on Sunday night, Mr. H. H. Banks, said that reincarnation was a conception assuming a dignified destiny for human beings. Each incarnation was a hand put forth to receive experience. According to our capacity for assimilating this was the growth in wisdom and character. There were hints in Biblical Scriptures of reincarnation. Of the man who was born blind the question was asked: "Did he sin, or was it his parents?" "Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect" was no id]e injunction. This perfection was inevitable in the course of time. Justice demanded that all receive their dues, yet there were vast individual differences in body, health, brain, temperament and character, for divine justice would have us reap what we have sown. Unaccountable phobia, such as fear of water, closed rooms, pointed to a partial memory of past experiences. Infant prodigies and geniuses were explained by reincarnation, for these individuals had earned the faculty in past lives. Genius itself iwas often sterile.