THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143763, 11 April 1912, Page 5

THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

The last of a series of three lectures upon Theosophy was delivered by Miss Curisiie in tlio Good Templars’ Hall on Easter Sunday, dealing with the coming ol the Christ, tho world teacher and the founder of all religions. The lecturer iiaid that in order to understand tlio manner ol the Lord’s coming it was necessary, to have an outline of the grades in the Hierarchy of Adepts, the super-men, who, having conquered death and sin, were now upon earth and wearing physical bodies in order to teach us, The highest of all these is the Lord Christ. Christ comes at the beginning of each root and sub-race to give a new keynote of religion to the leading type of humanity ; when last He came He wore the body of Jesus of Nazareth, Who gave that “body a willing sacrifice,” knowing it would be killed, and He acted in His own sacred person the self-sacrifice which was and still is the keynote of Christianity. Mias Christie then took tlio five stories embodied in all great religions,, and in the Bible interwoven into one, ionnd the life of ; the Lord Jesus. The story of tho Sun-God born- under the sign" Virgo—the virgin at tho darkest time of the year, crucified at the'crossing over to the light half—is the story told in myth. There is also the-story, of the Initiate and his crucifixion; the crucifixion in matter of, the Logos or God of the universe, and the story of tho human babe Jesus, whoso body received the Christ at its baptism by-John the Baptist; and last, and dearest of all to every devotee, is the ever-truo story of the birth of the mystic Christ within the heart of each man—tho second birth.

Two thousand years ago the Christ! came to His own and His own received Him not because He came not as they had pictured His coming. Will it, the lecturer asked, bo the same again when Ho returns to us within the next twenty years?. Last time he healed the sick, raised the dead, made the blind to see and the lame to walk, and as a return wo killed tho body, and He returned to His home and helped us from a distance. AVe are now too civilised to mock Him with a crown of thorns and spit upon Him, but shall we know Him if He comes ,in the body of a dark-skinned race? Ho will again come “as a thief in the night” to all who cannot believe that Ho is the Christ because He is not orthodox And He never will be orthodox ; He comes to give a new keynote and usher in a now dispensation. He “will come in clouds of glory” for those who can see, and lift them into the air —the spirit—and the only way to make certain our power to know Him is to be Christ-like, to love God in the brother, onr brother whom vse have seen, and determinedly see first, in everyone all the good in them; then when Christ appears we shall see such a blaze of glory that we shall fall at His feet in adoration, knowing Him for the, Christ.