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Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 3

At the Dunedin Lodge of the Theosophical Society on Sunday evening Mr John M'Ewan answered the question, ‘ What is Real Religion ?’ He found such a ‘ religion in theosophy, which, while not strictly itself a religion, was the essence of all religions—the truth underlying every creed. The fundamental truths of the religions were, he said, identical. Every religion expressed some great truth in Nature—sacrifice, purity, duty, law—and in the all-inclu-sive teaching of theosophy these truths were synthesised. Mr M'Ewan said he was typical of numbers of men who could not accept doctrine blindly. They wanted a religion which was reasonable in the light of modern science, and whose truths could be expressed in the practice of life. The philosophic conception of imminence and unity implied brotherhood, and the expression of brotherhood .was the. service of man.