ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10120, 30 October 1917, Page 7

ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST.

A public lecture entitled “The Mystic St;ir" was delivered by Miss C. W. C'hriatie, travelling organiser of the above Order, on Sunday evening, in the Empire Hall. A brief outline is as follows: —The people of Christendom, while professing to believe that the unseen is the real and eternal, and that the things seen and felt, etc., are but temporary and fleeting, seldom apply this teaching to the things of daily life, or even to their religious symbols, their lucky coins, mascottes, etc., which they pretend not to value or believe in, but still use in every walk of life, and while calling a belief in these things superstition, they really value them and are decidedly uneasy when they lose their luck charm, or the badge of their order, their lodge, their religion, or when the mascotte of their boy’s regiment dies or is _ lost. Such an attitude shows rank superstition, and superstition is the greatest hindrance to spiritual progress; it goes hand in hand with ignorance. Knowledge is the death of both. “To-night,” said the lecturer, "I will give you the meaning of the badge of our Order, tell you of its origin and how it may be used as a protection and a source of power. All these well-known symbols, such as the circle, cross, star, interlaced triangles, square, etc., arc first formed in higher planes by the action of (he Great Central Force, or God, working in matter, and each is the sign of a definite point reached in the evolution of form. The circle is the symbol of eternity; the cross, of the crucifixion of spirit in mutter, and is the symbol of the Christian Church to-day; this in human evolution, the symbol of the man with head erect, arms' outstretched but feet together fixed and bound in the earth. The star will be and is now he symbol of man freed from that stage, with feet free and separated in action: and it will be the symbol of the church of the future and Hie brotherhood of religions inaugurated by the Christ when He comes again as a public religious teacher shortly after the close of the present war —the Armageddon of this humanity. The star v marks our escape from the animal kingdom, the point at which the soul demands and receives a human body shaped into a five-pointed star. It also marks liis escape from the purelv human kingdom into the divine, when he enters the kingdom of heaven as ‘a little child in the Kingdom of Heaven and sees the live-pointed star in the east shining above the portal of initiation, and sees also the open path to conscious divinity stretching before him. The cross and star are seen bv members of evolutions other than the human, and are known by them to represent flower in the person in whose aura or atmosphere they arc seen: and that this power is a danger to those who aie hinderin'' evolution, so such entities keep Ihei, distance, but when the star is worn upside down, i.c.. with two points or the feet of the man upwards, it invites these undesirable entities to come and increase all undesirable qualities, and only the (rood thoughts and kind unselfish deeds of our muses; for instance, shows them that the reversed badge means good, not evil. Wearing these symbols with knowledge is „ot superstition, but an added power Kitnal or ceremonial when it makes these . i )V the movements of men and women working' it with pure bodies, minds and eminent rat ion erea.es andproves to ihmn God ■■■'•-ineli l..c' Ihe bvlulol C.m,-bided ebb an explanation of the ScripHind lexis describing the coming of Christ.