THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 12

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Speaking on ‘ The Religious Key ’ as one of the keys to unlock the deadlock of modern civilisation, Miss A. ■lnglis said the religion must be of the practical nature, where the brotherhood of God is really practised in the dailv life and where beauty as an aspect of God will be cultivated instead of the various forms of ugliness rampant in the world. Great Britain had set an example to the world in’ selfsacrifice, which was the keynote of the Lord Jesus. The gloominess of the Middle Ages and the morbid view of man as a vile sinner and worm were the outcome of the loss of the teachings of the Christ caused by His early death. His teachings, however, were known by the disciples, who passed them by word of mouth to their followers and called the lesser and greater mysteries. As the gloom lifted and materialism was gradually replaced by the psychologists, philosophers, authors, poets, and Theosophists, mankind had gradually regained the brighter aspect of Christian teaching. Where gloom still reigned in a nation and the materialistic outlook _ was thereby strengthened, it laid itself open to the influences of unscrupulous men, both seen and unseen, who ever sought to gratify their desires at the cost of human suffering. Our religion, therefore, should so strengthen in us belief in the omniscient and beneficent power of God ultimately triumphing over evil that we would look ever upwards to the goal before mankind, which must be reached' by unselfish service. for the life of the spirit was quickened by unselfishness. “ Give and it shall be given unto yon.”