A WORD TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9913, 30 July 1910, Page 4

A WORD TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.

A Californian paper publishes the greater part of an address on " The Purification of Civil Life" given recently by Mrs Katherine Tingley, bead of the American Theosophists, and ruler of that remarkable community, Point Loma. The concluding part of that address is an appeal to modern women to realise ,their latent powers, and to cast away slavish fears. "If we are to make America what I have dreamed it could be and what you all should hope it could be," she says, " there is no other way but to begin at the basis, right in the home! Oil, ye women who are carrying so many burdens,, who think that life is a travesty, who have your sorrows, your doubts, your fears, who have your disharmony, your unhappiness, who, many of you, suffer neglect and are abused; if you knew what I know overcome those conditions, an J" you need not do it Jn the ordinary way I " You would begin to get right dowi into your natures, and the first thing that a woman has to find out, whuvj she is studying the laws governing ht r life ? is that there is a negative and a positive quality, and that negative wrmen are always imposed upon; that they are sacrificing their lives und bearing children that must suffer j ■ is ;• as they have done! For there is not in their own lives that balancing power, there is not justice. And if a woman begins to live the higher life within herself and live it so powerfully and so fully, the very atmosphere that she carries silences the meanest and most selfish efforts of her opposers. "You cannot make over the world in a moment. You cannot change woman's life in a moment. Realising the mistakes that have been made down through the ages, and that the wisdom religion is the key, let woman become acquainted with herself and not bp so anxious to succeed that she loses her balance, but to remember that the crucifixions that come to human life have often proved blessings. Let the woman who finds herself unhappily married or suffering from conditions brought about through marriage, let her remember that it was because she was not acquainted with herself. " That if she had had this divine knowledge, if she had had the positive quality accentuated in her life this attribute, this power of intuition which is over and above her, the spiritual factor in life would have illuminated her mind and would have brought that woman to a knowledge of her own weaknesses, and her own strength. " Maybe there is something in both the man and the woman which needs changing I " The man goes out into the world and has his temptations innumerable—-

so many more than woman, who is protected in her home—so let her find the key to these great problems that we have been referring to and let her become so in love with her higher divine self that she will find that the warrior spirit is developing and that this shadoAV that has been over her, this fear, this timidity, this unrest, this dread, will all pass away. "If she is in the light she will know when 1/0 endure and when to protesc, and when she comes to that point then she will .be ingraining into the atmosphere of human life heroic warrior courage, something splendid, and ;if she comes again as a woman her progeny will pay tribute to her suffering, her crucifixions, her combats! " As woman goes along in these conditions she will find that many things that troubled her yesterday do not trouble her to-day. She will learn that she is the controller of her destiny and has a power ovor prenatal conditions Shu who ha»s her hand on the cradle controls the destiny of tho world."