THEOSOPHICAL LECTURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 30 January 1937, Page 10

THEOSOPHICAL LECTURES.

Miss N. E. Ockcnden, of Auckland, who ig on a‘ lecturing tour for the Theosophical Society in New Zealand, arrived ir. Palmerston North yesterday. Since her visit to India a few years ago, when she spent 15 months at the headquarters of the Thcosophical Society in Madras, Miss Ockenden has devoted herself entirely to thcosophical work and is well known throughout New Zealand as an honorary lecturer for the society. During her present visit she will give three public lectures on Sunday evenings under the auspices of the Palmerston North Lodge of the Thcosophical Society at 126 Church Street, commencing to-morrow evening. The first address, “Life and Death,” deals with childhood, youth, manhood, old age, and death. Parents, teachers and students j should hear this address. In the second | lecture of the series, “The Throe-fold Journey of the Soul,” the speaker will trace the soul’s pilgrimage downwards, outwards, and upwards, and will present the parable of the Prodigal Son with fresh thought and a deeper interpretation than is usually ascribed to it. The third lecture “The Diverse Gifts of the Great Religions,” will show that there is a brotherhood of religions as there is a brotherhood of men, and will give an outline of the w'ork of the founders of the sreat religions of the world. Miss Ockenden will illustrate this subject by explaining a ritual, not hitherto published, written by the noted thcosophical lecturer and author, Mr C. Jinarajadasa, who toured New Zealand in 1935.