THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 14118, 22 July 1909, Page 6

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

A public meeting was held in the rooms of the Theosophical Society, Liverpool street, last evening, when Mr A. W. Maurais addressed those present on 'The Seven Ages of Man.' According to the lecturer, man came to earth in very early fire-mist day6—he being an insubstantial phantom. Round that phantom denser matter gathered, and that was the second race or age—the first was inside the second. The speaker said that astral shadow was still within u6, and capable of issuing forth, taking any shape, and doing things that often deluded Spiritualists and confounded the men of science. The third race evolved from the second through stages which included fission, budding, and the emission of eggs. Towards the close of this race entities from other planets incarnated in the forms and worked at the mental evolution of the people, who gradually became the bi-sesual fourth race. These were the people who inhabited the great continent of Atlantis, and were destroyed by a flood the memory of which still survives—the penalty of their exceeding wickedness. Before the flood the better sort were led away to the North Pole, then enjoying a. good climate, and afterwards to the tablelands of Central Asia. These were our ancestors, the Aryans. Many were driven southwards by the great glacial epoch, but afterwards . returned. The sixth race was now being developed, especially in America, and would possess senses mo.-e icute than ours. The spirit of unity would pervade the race, which would bring into being the earthly paradise for which men longed. But not all men would be reincarnated into that state. The unfit would be eliminated, and would, ages after, finish their evolution on another globe. From this tradition, .taught in the Mysteries, had probably arisen the legend of the day of judgment, Mr J. E. Billing presided. The attendance was fair.