LADIES' MEETING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17143, 21 November 1917, Page 2

LADIES' MEETING

There was a good attendance of ladies to hear Miss Christie's lecture, "Woman's Work and the New tln.ee,'' on Saturday afternoon, the TlieosopliicaJ Hall being well filled. The text ™as the first and second chapter of Gcn'Osis. The difference and apparsnt contradiction in the order of creation g:\rn in tli€so two chapters(jwas shown to he no contradiction, as one described a cosmic, the other a planetary process. Adam and Eve were symbols of the first man and the first woman, but they were not the first human beings ny many thousands. This was the iinal step from oneness into tnanyness —the sepa.-utmn of the sexes in the middle of the third Root Kacc—the black or negro type. and close unou it followed the deepest descent into matter, the "Fall of Man/ , a accessary step in evolutions fr»r from that Man knew the difference between good and evil. He ate ff the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and "liecame as Ciod " Woman with her greater intuition led the way bj listening- to the serpent—the symbol .of Wisdom in all Eastern Scriptures, of which our , Bible is one. This knowledge turned Adam and Eve out of their paradise of innocence and ignorance, and biotight intense suffering upon tho woman, more than upon the man, for ehe was the leader. livery forward step in evolution brings suffering to the pioneers, va-.til we have well rounded the turn on our ( journey back to conscious onoiwss with , God our Father. The materialistic ex- 1 planation of this chapter and - f the ( necessary change in the method of l»:»ih , attendant on the separation of the sej.es ' is responsible for the domination vf man j over woman throughout tv« ngrs, «»>U the loss of a knowledge of rVincanicmon, which gives every eoui ?nany lite-penods in the body of first one tcx as?d then

another, haa brought about iho «!\vf«]

sexual dejiravity—the White Slave tiaffic

—and the hideous veneresd a.-Ktses cf the present day. The Hygiene Bill aid

the old CD

Act were explained, r.nd

the woman urged to use their toi.is to protect their eons and 'laughters from

tho ecourge of sex excess. The necosejty for a pui'e environment lo attract pure and advanced souls to birth :a cur

homes was explained, and the darger of passional or impurjj nurses awakening secde of evil in the' unconscious infant

carried in their arms, was made vei'y clear. The new cub-race, eaid the lecturer, is to be cradled chiefly m New

Zealand and Australia, and women must

know these things if they are to act intelligently. This is their part of the

work of reconstruction, row and aftar

the war,