WAR AND THE UNIVERSE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2765, 8 May 1916, Page 8

WAR AND THE UNIVERSE

MR. CLEMENT AVRAGGE'S LECTURE. At tho Concert Chamber in-the Town Hall on Saturday evening Mr. Clement ! Wragge repeated his lecture on "Tho War in the Light of the Universo" to an enthusiastic audience. The lecture was given in aid of 'the Patriotic Funds. Mr. -Wragge carried his hearers into depths of the unknown. ■Ho said that everything was ruled by mind or spirit, and that to all thinking peoplo the age of materialism had come to an end. Ho urged his hearers/to distinguish between the absolute and tho negative, stating' that the Absolute, or God, was the real and the lasting. He insisted that nothing was lost. The radio-active' life spark merely passed at so-called death' from the earth plane of slow vibrations to the astral plane of swift vibrations, tho body or shell being left behind on earth. He said that tho present war had been- brought about to teach men lessons that otherwise they stupidly refused to learn. "Good and evil," said Mr.-. Wragge, "are rela-. tive expressions viewed in--'the light of Eternity. War, tho greatest of all evils, becomes a developed good.". He Baid that we must fight on to victory without hatred, because hatred rebounds and injures the hater. The Teutonic nations would in time bo , released from spirits -of evil, and then they would be aghast and horrified at all the crimes and horrors which had been perpetrated. Touching on the recruiting question, Mr. AVragge said that nothing riled him more than to see young men idling in tho streets should be at the front. He was not, physically able .to handlo arms, .but he had. tried to do his bit- by. preparing "Hints" to New Zealand Troopers,";, which publication could bo had gratis through the Government Printing Office. His- eldest son had been killed in action, and his second boy was serving in Egypt. To-night, Mr. AVragge will lecture at O'taki, and subsequently at Levin and Palmerston North. Later, all the f>rincipal places on the New. Plymouth ine will bo visited, and finally Auckland.