THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 13

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

On Sunday evening Miss Oppenheimer pave a public lecture on "Tho Mission of Krislinamurti." Colonel R. B. Smythe was in the chair. The lecturer said that tho Press had drawn considerable attention to the mission of Mr. Krislinamurti to the world, but some erroneous rumours had been circulated. Nobody was compelled to believe anything that was said, but at the same time the TheosopUical Society was the safest place to come to for information on this subject, for the society knew more about Krislinamurti than was known elsewhere. The task that lay before Krislinamurti was to add to the world's knowledge oE the constitution of the human soul. Human ignorance put great obstacles in the way, for the majority of men had hitherto directed their attention to observing the body and not the soul. The problem of multiple personality, however, had been studied by scientists, and in the study of psychology great progress had been made. From the oracles of ancient Greece to the modern "medium" there had always been some evidence of contact with other worlds. The mission of Krislinamurti was a great and special mission—no other than to give the keynote to the spiritual teaching of the New Age now dawning on tlie world. The history e£ the human soul, through all its stages of development, was to be unfolded to a race which had at last arrived at a sufficient height of intelligence to receive it. Krislinamurti was believed to' have prepared himself, through many lines of devotion to humanity, for the great task of helping a whole race to enlightenment. Preparation for this work had been the special labour of the Theosophical Society for fifty years. Narrow orthodoxy and dense materialism alike had to be replaced by a more spiritual nnd a broader outlook. But to proclaim Krislinamurti as "the new Messiah" was a mistake, and was not authorised by the Theosophical Society. To describe him as a chosen instrument of the great "World Teacher" would be more correct. In order to "walk as a man amongst them," the great invisible Teacher must have- a human vehicle.