THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18101, 17 June 1924, Page 10

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Hiss 'Selene Oppenheirner, National Lecturer for the Theosophical Society in Ke.w < Zealand, is at present paying her annual visit to Christchnrch, and on Sunday at the tooma, Manchester atMit, delivered tie fourth of a series of six addresses, to. a large 1 audience. I'he subject. was "How we can communicate with other worlds," and the,lecturer began by saying that the belief in communication with other jpajjps of •Naturo was a very old one. , All religions throughout the ages taught through their Divine teachers tnat such communications did take place. The medieval saints testified of their "own experience to glimpses of other world b and the modern mind waa not now disposed to regard all these experiences, as the outcome or hysteria. Spiritual* ism had demonstrated, through the use of mediums, to many" thousands of thoughtful people that the veil between this. world and the next could bo lifted Tinder certain and ' Theosophy proclaimed that men might know the truth for themselves if they would pay ,the price of discipline, study find purification. To-day the clairvoyant was regarded as supernormal, but in time to come- the xnasseß of mankind; would have developed this extension of sight which would enable them to investigate realms at present beyond the -physical lands in which they dwelt. Mediuroship was..iu>t< confined to the seance room. Every great artist, in any line, \rna acting as.a medium between .this and other worlds, for by his sensitive organism he made it possible for thore beyond us in evolution to inspire him and so benefit mankind. Perhaps the purest form 'of medrarnship known to man was that in which the Divine teachers of .religion used the carefully trained body of a chosen disciple in order to move among men and teach them. Ultimately these must come to all, for the -tide of spiritual evolution was irresistible.