THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 35

THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Ab a public meeting held in the rooms of fcha above society on the night of the 11th Mr A. W. Manrais lectured on "Theosophical Teaching*," dealing mainly with the progress of man's evolution, which was abated to have.occupied enormous periods of time, and bean commenced on the luuar chain of globes, agea before tha coming into objective existence ef our earth. When the lunar chain (of which the moon wag the decaying remnant) had outworn its uae« fulness and was ready for dissolution, its Ufa Rnd «nergy were transferred to the earth chain prepared for their .recopfciun, and the hosts oi souls commenced *• further -stage ,in their pro* greats. These Bonls might be divided broadlj into three classes of varying degrees of develop msnt. The lowest class arrived fivst, and went • through the lower kingdoms of nature, working up the matter of the globs for thotiethat wore to follow, and preparing tho forms from astral moulds or models brought with them; at s later stage tha second class, -and lastly the highest class of souls, came into the ranks, and that order could be observed on earth to - day. The purpose of a period of manifestation was the production of ' highly-evolved self-confcious individuals out of the spirit-matter which -was 'the primal worldstuff, and in the " Bhagavad Git* " the Deity - was represented as aaying: "Oat of a single parfciou of .Myself I erected the universe, and remain separate." Lsrge as the number of mouada in each- period was, jet that .number was .definite and limited. As the finished pro* duct passed from physical into-spiritual regions * at one end, lower farms ocowded in below; foi the universe- was the mill of .God, and ail things were shaped to His liking and bent ,ta ' His norposei ftt last. The vestures acquired by thaeoul in,iis progress were .dealt with, and -the w»y to purify the outermost of these, the physical <bodjr, and gradually recover tho use of the inner and more delicate .sheaths was described in geneml terms. The meetiog dispersed about ,9:45.

.A large •unfiah Tjeighing aver two tans was recently atraudsd m Napier 'Harbour. It has been if cured fox the Wanganui Jfriaeum, Hugh Browu, brother of the lato ,John ' Brown, who was well known as the Queen'a Highland attendant, died recently at Balmoral. j He is said to .have b<an resident for Homo I years in Dmunl'n.