THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 3

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

The Theosophical Society's Hall in Marion Street wns packed to overflowing to hear Miss £ W. Christie, the national lecturer for the New Zealand section, lecture on "Man Know Thyself." Miss Christie gave a verjMntar- | esting description of the solar scheme ; and man's relation to it, as outlined by the teachings of Theosoph.v. Theosonby, Jlies Christie said, claimed two distinct lines' of evolution—viz., that of life and form.. The essential nature of .lifo of man was divine but for expression in the physical world required n form or gnrmen of flesh. This divine life gradually, through a form of evolution, worked its ■svay through the mineral, vegetable, -and animal kingdom until it reached self'consciousness in the human kinmloin. Or>ce a, self-conßciousness individual, the choice between the higher and lower nature wns men's. As ho awakened to his own divine * nature he began to unfold some of the powers of the' spirit ; no longer demanding from lifo for his own personal satisfaction lie. becomes a River, a worker for'his fellows. There was but one life, the life of God. within everything in the universe. This lifecould not be expressed completely by one individual—each wns but a fragment of ii perfect whole. There-was no missing link in an ordered universe, and every individual consciousness must eventually return to the source from Svhidi it started. Consequently no soul coulrl lie eternally lost, though it was possible to delay the journey by going against the great lniv of evolution. ' ■