THEOSOPHY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10637, 31 October 1896, Page 2

THEOSOPHY.

Miss Lilian Edger lectured at tha Oddfellows' Hall, Stuart street; :oq Thursday night, on "The.Bearing of Kurm&'on a Fevy Sooial Questions." Mr A. W. SJ»Drsi< was in the chair, the defiuition1 of Karthi v itii vrhiob. ihi lecture started eooreyed the .idea that it was the well-known formula of action and reaction bsins* equal-and opposite carried info mentalregions. Thought set up vibrations in some medium much oiora subtle than sir, aud thus other minds were affected and various reactions st up. Harmoaious vibration^ were produced when thought waves entered syaipath*tie minds, while discord was caused by oppofiorfcurrenta or tboagbt. vibrations whosa rare ivas too different to allo<" them to coalesce ioto harmoDy. Tae lecturer dwelt on this st some ioiigtb, •ihoniog ho^v dominant notes prcluccd great li'jUticav acd social crieos, and t-ho responßibiiity that rafted upon all to thiek'jiving, wise, .v.>d helpful thoughts, to the end that love might eventually baths dominant note. No one noUUI afford to be neutral.on socisO, questions, for torce persicteJ, and we were r*)pooxible for the present position of the race, in f.il d«part-: motifs of activity. Han was bbrn over ar.d over =*ga!n, and met ail those whom his thoughts had injured or helped in previous lires. The environment of a man wa>! ths rew'.fc of hia thinking, aud though thought n.zis euvironaisst acted and reacted on estch other, {-.hougb.s was the active fore; .aud could mould eiif'roumsnt. Sympathy was the most' belp'ut form of thought, "for it enabled us to enter into the ciiuds of other mea sud nmiesVAiid them—. i-.hea we couli) helj> ).bem wisely and well, Mere legislation couM not ms.!tß & nation virtuous, and withoa'-. virtue v> permanently succesiful civii!«?,tion was possib!".. ,We had to le«rn to control oar seMes, then. drnnkonneßS and lust 'would disappear. -ETeryohA suould start with hiuis?;1? ; when a man !»() caaquered hisown pet yioe he was betf«r fitt-m-iio de»l with the iaiperf.v.'t;ops of others. ■ We should remember that those who led degraded lives were often suffering from the nffratt of causes nut going ju tiift past, and our.duty was to help them by suntairxficl aud powerfui^tibu3.ht,.eveQ when action had proved Useless. VSe wera creating our own future.each moment by the thoughts emanating from us, and that was a ijreat responsibility. The hail wss about three-parts filled, and an attentive tearing wa» I accorded the sneaks?. ' ■'■