THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 2

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

At the Dunedin Lodge of the Theosophical Society on Sunday evening Mr John M'Ewan gave an answer to the question, "What is real religion? " He found such a religion, he said, in Theosophy, which, while not strictly itself a religion, was the essence of all religions—the truth underlying every creed. The fundamental truths of the religions were, he said, identical. Every religion expressed some great truth in nature —sacrifice, purity, duty, law—and in the all-inclusive teaching of Theosophy these truths were synthesised. Mr M'Ewan said he was typical of numbers of men who could not accept doctrine blindly and imcomprehendingly. They wanted a religion which was reasonable in the light of modern science and whose truths could be expressed in the practice of life. The philosophic conception of immanence and unity imnlied brotherhood, and the finest expression of brotherhood was the service of man. That was the keynote of Christianity. It underlay all real religion. Service was love of God applied as love of man, and when that ideal became the law of life, the world would be neariug the true civilisation. That, too, was a religion which touched both the heart and the mind.