THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1926, Page 3

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

On Sunday evening a' lecture was delivered on the subject, "What is Reincarnation?" to give strangers a clear and simple _ elucidation. Many people had entirely erroneous ideas about rebirth. They imagined that human beings could Teappeal1 on the earth as animals. Thig wan impossible. We were far beyond the animal stage in evolution, and would never return to it. In each life on earth we had experiences which were transmuted into knowledge and conscience. After death there was an interval of absence in which in higher worlds we made further progress, returning to resume life's lessons at a slightly higher stage than we loft off. The divine within us urged us on towards final perfection. The mistakes made on earth had to be rectified on earth, and our moral debts to our fellow-creat-ures had to be paid here. Similarly we re.iped the fruit of our good deeds, by which we acquired an ever-widening capacity to help others. So long as we Bet causes going on cftth, we must return to earth to meet the effects. If we dealt with them nobly, the debt was paid. If we failed in the lesson, we must try again. Eventually. all would reach success, and would become strong and free.