THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 14491, 16 February 1911, Page 2

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

At a mooting of tho Thcosophical Society, held in the rooms, Dowling street, last evening, Mr A. W. Maurais delivered an address on 'Tho Secret of Peace.' Tho speaker said that tho universe was governed by laws which could not be broken—a rigid sequence of cause and effect whicli could noither Ims hastened nor delayed. Tho secrot of peace consisted in putting one's self in harmony with those laws. But, it would be said, the laws became known only when they were broken. The breaking of a law of* health produced illness : it a man violently opposed himself to tho dictates of reason, his mental discernment became deranged. It had to bo remombored that what was called " breaking the raw" was but tho calling from latency of its own reaction. No law of Gcd I could really be broken. Human law was a jjart of the Divino law. If cruel, unjust, and oppressive, it was but tho necessary, unavoidable consequence of "tilings done and undone" by thoso who suffered under it. Looked at in this way, the absolute justice of God would bo perceived. There was no forgiveness by God, noither was thero condemnation. The law was sufficient, grading tho punishment to tho crime with superhuman nicety. Lifo after life the man came back to bo beaten, hammered, and shaped by tho law. and it was tho acceptance of this beating, this hammering—the cheerful bearing of "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"— that° gavo peaco. In conclusion, the speaker said that a man in this world got what ho desired. Ho might not get it in that life in whicli ho first sought for it; but certainly ho got it. With it camo inevitable reactions and consequences, and if it wcro a material thing its sorrows equalled iUs joys. When he had tried and exhausted the things that minister to tho senses, he came, tlirough many lives, by ways of disillusion and sorrow and disappointment, to tho place where ho desired only tho peace of God. There was a fair attendance. Miss Dalziel occupied the chair.