THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 98, 1 June 1914, Page 11

THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

The series of ten lectui'es by Miss C. W. Christie is drawing, tQ a close, and has drawn large audiences. Last night was no-exception to the l'ule, and the Theosophieal Hall was crowded. The main points of the lecture were as follow:

■Notliiiig that , the soul; i.e., the consciousness of man, has ever experienced can be lost, it may be forgotten, overlaid by the accumulation of centuries, but it can be uncovered, recollected, and used by every man and woman when they take themselves in hand and are willing to undergo the necessary discipline and make the necessary effort, for all is stored in the treasure house of the soul into which neither moth nor rust can come, nor thieves break into and steal. Since many thousands of years ago wlieii as members of a group-soul lor reservoir of consciousness, we lived in separate bodies, but with no individual consciousness, there is in each of us an unbroken memory stored away. At that stage our consciousness was mere instinct—knowledge drawn from the common reservoir of our group. We had 'neither memory (as we understand it) nor anticipation. We were not] then at the human stage, we were animal, souls wearing animal bodies. Contact with man lighted our embryo minds at his, and the different rate of vibration thus set up in the consciousniess caused a dividing wall between us and the group, and we became individuals when after a time we separated our portion entirely from that of the common reservoir.

Since that we have gone through the stages qf savage and civilian in many races and nations, learning something from each, have.ma.de innumerable ties with thousands of human beings, and are now Bearing the stage when "old memories are forcing themselves upon the present consciousness, and leading the more" advanced into a new theology ajnd new understanding of their inherent divinity, and so enabling them to'make a channel between the soul and ego thus bringing heaven around them, and connecting the consciousness of .the pre.sent with that, of the past. Already be tween two earth-lives we live for a time in this treasure house of the soul, while making into character the experiences of the life just over, and connecting it with those of the past and those yet to come, for there is nothing hidden from us that shall not be revealed. Man is on his way to conscious divinity—the next step is discipleship—utter selflessness, then the new birth followed by four more great stages, - then liberation from the wheel of births and deaths."