THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14684, 18 November 1909, Page 10

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

In. an addicss given at tho rooms of thl Theosophieal Society, Liverpool street, last evening, Mr A. W. Maura is .dcfclt with some of the rites of tho Christian Church from a Theosophieal standpoint, Dealing with the question of baptism, the lecturer said that water symbolised the divine energies, which were an ocean. The faith of tho subject would dictate tho benefit received, since the higher forms of energy wore exceedingly sensitive and responsive 0 mental In tho average oaso operator was sincere, though unskilled, And benefit resulted by an influx of forco trom higher regions into tho subtler bodies. Ihe saino was true of the rite of infant baptism, or "christening," a protective and beneficent current being direotcd upon the child. _ The " words of power" still -jngored in 1 the Catholic and Greek Churches, and greatly enhanced tho potency of the ceremonies in which tlisy wore employed. Tho speaker, referring to the rite of the holy communion, said that when properly performed by persons endowed with faith and knowledge the l>rea<l and wine were transmuted into the body ot the Lord, though tha physical husk remained unmoved High vibrations wee poured in:,) the elements until they responded to the impulse of the mental an<l emotional planes in tho all-enelosin" Divio ■ body, with the result that a great" impuko A*as given to lhe spiritual life, preceded by a purifying of the thoughts tnd defl,Ti fA" t l"'', ritCs ef tho Churct '. M ho lecturer, had proved from the mystenes founded by Jesus, 100 n.c., the orthl ™,i• g t0 that extent, tie ;? l v ker ' asi:ed his aiK-,_,ee n, .^ in ? s that could not I* tne' V . 8 ciutl °us and tentaIV l»n J i° °, • inatc ' rialislio science i to °± f mmcd , tUo * There , ? f. U V S far as '' went. m«ck preyed tendan ° e - Mr M - C « r '