THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 2

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

In the rooms of the Theosophies! Society, Liverpool street, last evening, Mr A. W. Uaurais related some alleged incidents in Hr: early life of man on earth. Tha speaker said that the first two races of men were unlike anything on earth to-day. Mrs Brsant sketched them thus: “The head with retreating forehead, the dully lurid eye, glowing redly over the flattened nose, the projecting, heavy jaws, offer a repulsive ensemble according to modem taste.” The Cyclops of Grecian story was a reminiscence of this early man. Divine kings ruled these primitive peoples, and under such expert guidance they built great cities and huge temples, fragments of which still existed, notably in the Gobi

Desert, where the city of Shamballah was alleged to stand in its entirety. Many travellers had risked, and some had lost, their lives in the attempt to locate this relic of a distant past, Dr Sven Hediu being the last to make the venture. The doctor caught glimpses of buildings, but was driven back by a storm, which smothered in the sand all his' followers but one. The fourth va.ee of man were distinguished bv intuition rather than intellect, which was "the special characteristic of the fifth, or Aryan, race, in which intellect had gradually displaced the clairvoyant and intuitional faculties of the earlier peoples. As the spiritual impulse gradually interpenetrated the modern world, the greatest, because the most sympathetic and just, civilisation would dawn, and men would look back with horror upon the injustice and cruelty in which, in previous lives, they had borne a part. When a continent had done its part, and produced a new race of men, the land was destroyed by volcanic action or flood, and a new continent. arose, to be the training ground of a more, advanced type. Mr G. Richardson presided over a fair attendance.