THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16285, 19 January 1915, Page 2

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

"The Will and the Way" was the title of Mr D. W. M. Burn's address from the platform of the Thcosophieal Society on Sunday evening. He said it was usual to take the old proverb, "Where there's a will there's a way," to mean simply that where the will to do a tiling sufficiently strong, a way would be found to accomplish it. The importance of the way_ to the desired end was seldom fully realised. All men were seeking righteousness, but few saw clearly any definite method towards the accomplishment of the saying of Christ, "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." The Christ spoke as the perfect man, as the expert in the art of life, knowing every possibility of the material with which He worked, and having His instruments under perfect control. The instruments with which man worked were his various sheaths by means of which he contacted the physical, desire, intellectual, and intuitional planes. It was only when he, the Divine Spark, was able to feel that these sheaths were his tools and not himself that he could definitely begin to make the way to the perfection which he willed.