THEOSOPHY LECTURE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22708, 22 October 1935, Page 14

THEOSOPHY LECTURE

At the third “Straight Theosophy” campaign lecture on Sunday evening, Miss C. Pollard stated that brotherhood 'already existed in the laws of Nature and man had but to apply it in daily life. It included the loftiest sage and the lowliest savage because all shared the one life of God. Hence no man was better than another, yet all were not of equal development, for just as one son in a family might become a great seer and his brother a criminal, so were all sons of God at different stages of development. To one who understood brotherhood, the treatment of criminality became quite simple, because one worked at the causes of crime and treated the prisoner as one would treat a sick person. The criminal required teaching and more help than any ordinary person. Brotherhood showed how to reach out eagerly towards the good in other people. A censorious attitude towards evildoers or towards weaker persons depressed them, whereas what they required was sympathy and kindly criticism. The present civilisation was tottering on account of lack of brotherhood, and when it was realised that a State was a “brotherhood of souls” the yorld would have gone far towards establishing peace oh earth.