THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 10

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

At the opening public lecture for th® year, Mr J. M. M‘Ewan chose as hi® subject ‘ The British Commonwealth of Nations and the Future of Mankind/' When nations decided to federate,' h® said, they formed a commonwealth; that is, they decided to forgo many of their own interests for the sake of. the common interests ruling the ma*> jority. Examples of federations were seen in Australia and America, wher® much hadl been gained by the co-opera-tion with other States. What was. fha purpose of a nation? - First, as a field for the evolution of a particular typa of individual ; and second, to establish conditions unique to that particular class of work, so that all nations might add their quota in forming a varied world. The human race divided itself into great races, of which we Teutons happened to be the fifth—or the great Aryan race which was developing th« mind—in contrast to the fourth rac® (as found in China and. Japan), wher® the emotions had been developed. Earlier races were concerned with the physical body development, while the future race would bring out the highest aspects of intellect where it joined with wisdom and love, (sometimes called intuition). Since the laws of God .were irrefrangible, and' since one of these laws ' was the brotherhood of man, ; it followed that unless a nation, followed this law it would ’ some day break to pieces on its own bulwarks. Hence the beauty of Greece , and the law'of Rome, though contributing their quota to humanity, went to pieces, for th® former was founded on slavery and th® latter on force. Though force and conquest had marked the leading nation® of the world, yet to-day we found them united to protect their dearest posses-sion-liberty. So long as the democracies held to the ideal of universal brotherhood, so long would they ;b® great, and the future before Great Bri--tion and her dependencies was mor® glorious than it appeared ,_at present, for not only would she bring freedom to our own people, but would releasa other nations from oppression, and thu* help to pave the way for not only th® United States of Europe, but/a federated Parliament for the whole world*