MISS EDGER'S LECTURES.

Evening Star, Issue 10149, 30 October 1896, Page 2

MISS EDGER'S LECTURES.

■ ■» ■ • A lecture by Miss L. Kdger, M.A., F.T.S., on ' The Bearing of Karma on a Few Social Questions,' was delivered at Stuart street Oddfellows' Hall last night to a moderate attendance, Mr A. W. Maurais in the chair. Several definitions or aspects of Karma were given by the speaker. It was the law of equal reaction carried into mental planes; it was a law of compensation which ensured that a man reaped what ho Fowed, and that only ; and its moat active agents were the vibrations or waves set up by thought. Great stress was laid upon the power of thought, and here came in the bearing of Karma upon things soc : al. A man thought oat his own environment, and the quality of his mental operations affected the State or nation to which he belonged. If we wanted a pure and healthy social state we must think purely and wisely : legislation could only effect what the minds "of men had already determined upon. "We saw around us in the world the results of thinking in previous lives ; bodies died, but thought-force persisted. Those who could not be helped by action might be helped by thought, which was a living force and penetrated according to its intensity, resulting eventually in action. An account was given of the vibrations set up in times of social and political stress, and their overwhelming effect. When love was tho dominant vibration politics would be a lost art, for all men would be united in brotherhood. The attractions and repulsions set up by thought vibrations in various classes of minds were described, and an interesting lecture concluded with an appeal to the audience to think their best, then the action following must be beneficent. Several questions were asked at the close.