THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24221, 13 February 1940, Page 15

THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Speaking at the Theosophical Society on Sunday on “ The Religious Key ” as one of the keys to unlock the deadlock of modern civilisation. Miss A, Inglis said that the religion must be of the practical nature, where the brotherhood of God was really practised in the daily life and where beauty as an aspect of God would be cultivated instead of the various forms of ugliness rampant in the world. Great Britain had set an example to the world in self-sacrifice, which was the keynote of the Lord Jesus. The gloominess of the Middle Ages and the morbid view of man as a vile sinner and worm were, she said, the outcome of the loss of the teachings of the Christ caused by His early death. His teachings, however, were known by the disciples, who passed it by word of mouth to their followers and called the Lesser and Greater Mysteries. As the gloom lifted and materialism was gradually replaced by the psychologists, philosophers, authors, poets and Theosophists. mankind has gradually regained the brighter aspect of Christian teachings. Where gloom still reigned in a nation and the materialistic outlook thereby strengthened, it laid itself open to the influences of unscrupulous men both seen and unseen, who sought to gratify their desires at the cost of human suffering. Religion, therefore, should strengthen the belief in the omniscient and beneficent power of God ultimately triumphing over evil.