THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 271, 10 August 1920, Page 5

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

On Sunday evening, at the Theosophical Hall, Marion Street, Mr._ H. Banks, w]io was recently appointed national lecturer for the society in New Zealand, coininonced a series of lectures •with, the subject, "Gone West.'" Fow people to-day, declared. • the lecturer, believed in extinction as the final lot of man,-whereas on the olher hand most thoughtful minds readily accepted the idea that deatli was I>ut a passing from one pliaso of lifo to another, an exchanging cf one garment for another; an idea based upon a tacit understanding that man was immortal in hi 9 rruo nature, though at present it was nothing more than an intellectual belief with most, few having realised their innate divinity as an actual fact. Tha lecturer placed in the ' latter category those true occultists, who had developed their latent soul-powers, by which means they had explored the worlds of the dead. Moreover, the occultists referred to gave dearly the formulae, which would enable any student, who cared to take the nece?sary trouble, to prove for himself the existence of higher worlds, and the nature of their conditions. There was an ever-growing body of students who testified to some degree of attainment, as the result of observing thb practices leading thereto. The "description of life beyond that was revealed to them was of a most reassuring character, and enabled them to face the inevitable event of death with fortitude and equanimity.