GENERAL NEWS
9 At the Y.M.O.A. board meeting on Monf day night the secretary pointed out that of e 98 men m residence during April, over 30 3 were soldiers or ex-soldiers. y ri Th , 6 monthly meeting of the Hermes " ft -~? Theosophical Students was held in i the Waratah Tea Rooms on Sunday. Dr 3 i e . , tour spoke on "Re-incarnation in the i Bible v. the Early Christian Gnosis." He d said he took this subject because so many a people, while admitting the reasonableness i o£ the ttieosophical teachings of re-incarna-i tion and Karma, rejected them because they t are unscnptaral." To demonstrate that 1 ?? I contr f r s r ' were referred to in r the Bible and m the teachings of the great - doctors, the speaker quoted many 3 B 'ble and from the writings i of the Gnostics, of Origen-Clement, Jerome 3 Justus Martyr, etc., in proof of his thesis. 5 He quoted the text, "Jacob. I loved, but s fcsau I hated,' contending that Jacob was 3 loved for some good done in a past life, and 3 .Esau, had earned God's disisleasure by some - evil m a past incarnation.. Malachi, chap- " 5; dealing with the prophecv of > Elijah return, considered in oonjuncs tion with Christ s distinct statement that u? , I? 10 , Baptist was Elijah! Tlie man 5 jvj n . n ' disciples' query: "Who - did sin, etc.," and many other texts vrero t discussed. <
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 6
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