IS MAN AN IMMORTAL SOUL!

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1916, Page 8

IS MAN AN IMMORTAL SOUL!

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—ln order to correct one or two remarks made by Jlr. Aldridge from the pulpit on .Sunday last, and reporfed in Monday's "Star," I would like to 517; a little, so that the Theosophical philosophy may not be placed in a false position before the eyes of the public. First, he makes the most profound mistake v that Theosophical literature assails Christian philosophy; anyone who lias '■-{ studied the former knows that the illu- 1 mination which Theosophy throws on - ; Christian philosophy explains the latter.i; more fully and makes it more beautiful"; and dear to the hearts of those of us S who have been brought up in tlio || Christian faith. But one cannot be ex , : pected to restrict himself to that narrow interpretation which anyone "else ? happens to put upon it. If 'the position of those great dignitaries, the "MsJiatmas," were even faintly*!

understood, one would hardly dare to y:: stfggest from the pulpit that they were . myths. There is sufficient evidence to support their reality and the immense - part they play in the affairs of the' I world. As to immortality, I thought it was common knowledge that by clairvoyance it was possible to see and converse with a man the day after dead—dead to the physical world only. The religious teachers, poets, philosophers, seers, and mystics have for all : aces proclaimed the truth of immor- ' tality—it is the very essence ofour : ;{ Scriptures, and the .longing of each -. human heart—and one is hardly justi- I fled in thinking that' these great'men: have been led away to nothing but myths. If one is not already immortal it seems unreasonable to suppose that ; which is mortal can become greater "■ :. than itself, which is immortality. It is. 1 -' the Divine Spark in every human heart I which is immortal—not his body. In the world there are two kinds of people , . —those who know and those who do not know—and this knowledge is the. thing which matters. What religion a : man holds, to what race he belongs,"are not important; the real important thing is the knowledge of God's plan, for men.'/ : For God has a plan, and that plan is ' evolution, which is so glorious and so beautiiul.—l am, etc., ONE WHO HAS STUDIED ■ "'i '. THEOSOPHY. ' • '