MEMORY OF PAST LIVES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 116, 22 June 1914, Page 9

MEMORY OF PAST LIVES.

SECOND LECTURE. As a number of people were unable to obtain admission to the Theosophical Hall last week, the more commodious Alexandra Hall was secured for last night's lecture, wherein Miss Christie described the different ways in which the faculty of recalling past lives appeared in different individuals, to no two people did it come in precisely the same manner. The strange sensation of being surrounded by a strong perfume due to no possible physical source; a voice giving a warning from apparently no human throat, non-phy-sical colours seen around people and as a setting to thought forms, with all the varieties of clairvoyance, psychometry, etc., were given as instances, and stories illustrative of their workings were told.

Nothing that has ever happened in this solar system is lost, all is imprinted upon the sensitive plate of the universe as living and moving pictures, and can be caused to unfold scene after scene and move past slowly or quickly as desired, by the man who has learned how to work Nature's great kinematograph.

Each individual has in addition to this his own private films stored up in his eausal body, and can thus traee his life back through thousands of years, and see how his actions in one life influenced his circumstances in the next, and there is a growing number of people to-day who by purity of life and determined persistent intellectual effort in the building yf character, have made this power. At the request of a number of theosophists, Mrs Besant and Mr Leadbeater have in this manner traced groups of present-day members of the Theosophical Society back for many thousands of years, and have published more than one series of lives and genealogical tables. These give Ihe key to past lives of activity, and both present and future possibilities, and so are invaluable to the leaders ia assigning positions to workers and directing powers into the right channels.