THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22719, 4 November 1935, Page 16

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

“We do not remember past lives, because the memories of the present life push the past into the background." _ Mr J. M. M'Ewan gave this explanation in a lecture which he delivered to the Theosophical Society last night on the subject, “ Can We Remember Past Lives? In each life the brain was new, he said, and how should it remember the events of the past life? The only person who could remember was the immortal ego, and he carried the balance of one life over into the next. To-day it was called faculty and conscience. That balance was always on the increase. Yet there were human beings who remembered former lives. The Buddha and Pythagoras spoke of other lives they had lived in this world. Sometimes in the west, but more often in the east, cases of memory of the past were reported. The memory could be gained, but it was a matter of steady effort and prolonged meditation. There would come a time when the deeper layers of consciousness, past, present, and future, would be seen as one. Dr Besant had supplied the recipe. She said: “Live the spiritual life, in the spirit, who knows his divinity, and then your past will be spread out before you, and yon will remember the whole of it at will.”