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CHAOS IN CHINA-
MR. BLAND URGES RESTORATION OF MONARCHY.
WHY ARE WE JUST HERE?" MISS EILEEN CASEY ANSWERS
THE QUESTION-
MEETING OF THE HONGKONG THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
SUGGESTED PANĂCEAN. Occasionally, spidat the logomachy of these conflicting ideas, there merges something in the nature of a definite The opinion appears to be gaining suggestion, designed to meet some parti ground (better late than never) that ocular feature of the chaotic situation. Mr.
There are probably a number of people less help and guidance ara speedily forth- Putnam Wesle, for instance, in his latest coming from without, things are likely to book suggests that if America's sympathy who would like to know why they are go from bad to worse in the Celestial for China in regard to the unequal "just here" and possibly quite a few Kingdom, says Mr. J. C. P. Bland in Trenties" is genuine, she might " offer who would wish themselves elsewhere.
herself up on the altar of progress and the Sunday Times. Even in Downips consent to a conditional abolition of iss Eileen Casey answered the ques tion at the public meeting of the Hong. Street there are indications of a gradual extra-territoriality in her own case, and
kong Lodge of the Theosophical Society awakening to the fact that the prevailing allow other nations to watch the results policy of patience, tolerance, and com- of the experiment Tang Shao Yi, an Thursday evening when she gave an address on "Karma--or why we are just here. promise, as prescribed by Sir Charles ex-Premier of China, advocates, as a first Addis, the Hoa. Bertrand Russell, and step towards the regeneration of his country, that the capital at Peking other vocational idealists, i calculated
should be abolished and that a new city to add to the burden of China's sorrows should be built the city of his dreams without doing the slightest good to ang
one else.
He proceeds: In the high places where policies are evolved it is still the fashion, however, to deprecate any idea of "inter the sub
vention" The latest speeches on
ject by H.M's Ministers convey the impression that the British Government's attitude" "will" continue to be one of watchful waiting" pending the advent of the New Era which, with the help of Lord Willingdon and Dame Adelaide Anderson, is to dawn when the Boxer
A very brief consideration, said Miss Casey, will convince us that this world, let alone the Cosmic System, could not be an ideal site, which he has discover long upheld unless there were fixed funda- cd, somewhere up the Chisntang River, mental laws to guide it, and one of these in Cheklang. It will take twenty-five laws is that of Karna called sometimes years to build, he admits, but what is a the Law of Causstion, or of Cause and quarter of a century to China? Mr. Effect In the Christian Bible it is in Harold Balme, president of the Christian dicated in the Text "Whatsoever a man Caiversity of Shantung, prominently soweth, that shall he also reap, and in identified with the political and Press the further suggestion that it is unwise t activities of the missionary societies, ap- expect to gather "figs" from thistles." pears to believe in experimenting with
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and why we are not occupying the niches That is why we are just where wo are filled by Mr. A. or Mrs. B., niches which perhaps we might fil more ably had for-
tune placed us there. 'But fortune' or rather we ourselves on days gone by designed another niche for this life-the We had heard how Reincarnation gives environment in which we now find our- us opportunity after opportunity to be-selves, made by the duties and faculties we have inherited from ourselves, and come perfect, so that, when we do reach until these are performed and perfected the Heaven of which we dream, we shall we must return to earth again and again. We do not like the environment we
be able to enter into the fullness of its have, Luen we must see to it that we
we are now reaping do not 'sow any more of that seed.which
government" of the students, by the students, for the students," as the most hopeful solution of the Chinese problem
And so on. Of all these various panaceas, however, there is none which Indemnity has been spent in producing touches the vital heart of the matter. If a new crop of riotous students. One Lord Southborough's Committee were to gathers that, during this period of com-adopt them one and all, it would bring placent expectancy, British traders will as no nearer to that without which all not necessarily be expected to turn the else is of no avail-namely, the restora muted into selflessness and desire to work ditions which must result if a former con.
tion of an effective. central authority From which it may be inferred that (in tervention being barred by common con- sent amidst the multitude of counsellors no one has any iden at present bow this crucial necessity of the situation is to
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joys through our own perfecttion. It is during these times of rebirth that we can review the mistakes which the physical body, our mind and emotions have made, that the weak parts of the character can be strengthened and selfishness trans-
for the good of all, that all thoughts, words and actions can gradually be brought under the control of the higher self.
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other check to the smiter; it will be saf- cient if they allow him to go on smiting the same ore. It does not yet seem to have occurred to anyone in authority
When we are reborn into the world we that, when unprovoked attacks are made
come with definite traits, with a definite upon British subjects in China by irra. he met. It is evidently, as in the adage, work to do we also come with debts in a case of belling the cat, aggravated by curred in previous lives which we have sponsible agitators, subsidised for the
the fact that in China there are twenty not been able to pay off, and these make purpose by Soviet agents, it is not only two cats (or Tuchuns) to be belled before for us the health, sorrow, joy or pain of lawful for us, but vitally necessary, that anything like normal conditions can be the new life the surroundings we are born swift and adequate punishment should restored. For obvious reasons, the por into, the people wa-meet, and they also overtake the offenders ja locos that nibility of any concerted action by the make our characters, and on our char- this can be done without recourse to po-Treaty Powers-is just as remote to-day scter depends largely our destiny.
litical intervention. Effective measures of reprisal could casily be applied (especially at Canton), and their cost would be utterly insignificant in com parison with the losses which the Crown Colony of Hongkong and our trade in the Far East are suffering as the result, of our futile endeavours to conciliate forces which live for, and by, disorder,
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FACING FACTH.
as it was in the sad, bad days of "spheres of interest". Nevertheless, until the pre- blem of a supreme authority is faced and solved, until the warring factions can bet compelled to recognise and respect the Central Government, all our goodwil! | and good works are worth nothing.
AN OPENING VOR, AMEHIĆA.
Mr. Wenla in his latest semi-official exposition of the situation, observes that a desperate struggle round the issue of the restoration of the Manchu Dynasty Judging by the course of events since is in preparation." If so, it is likely to the Washington Conference, it will take be, like most desprata struggles in some time, and some more hard knocks, China, chiefly a matter of dollars. But to bring these aimple truths home to the be this as it may, a menarchy without minds of officials and others deeply invisible means of subsistence, & Throne pregnated with the misguided sentiment without the pomp and circumstance of which has been the keynote of our policy regal state, is obviously out of the ques- in the Far East since the war. Mean- tion; it would not last a month. It is! while, that section a public opinion equally obvious that, as matters stand, which is alive to the realities of the the Chinese themselves are not in a posi- situation, is generally agreed that some tion, even if they were so diaposed, to thing more than the exchange of plati finance the Son of Heaven in suitable tudes about, the abolition of jikin will style. On the other hand, a Monarchy be required, and that soon, if Europeans fortified by the moral support and sym- are to continue to live and pursue their pathy of the United States (and there- lawful vocations in Chios de advisory fore of Great Britain), and guaranteed committee of commercial experts-under in the possession of an independent in- Lord Bouthhorough has been formed to assist the Government in devising prac tical remedial measures. Sooner or later they will be compelled to face the fact that there is bas one way to deal with an organised policy of intimidation by Orientals—namely, the resolute display (which does not necessarily imply the use) of armed force.
come (invested in American securities and paid. quarterly), could not fail to command the fervent loyalty of the man- darinate and thus to become invested with the outward and visible signs of effective authority. The amount of capi- tal required for this scheme would be from the American point of view, a mere bagatelle. Ten million dollars a year would probably suffice, with something For the present, however, the committee thrown in for preliminary expansea and appears to be busily engaged in explor the refurnishing of the Imperial palaces ing every avenue except this, the only recently looted by the Republican Gov- and obvious one. "Of counsellors und ernment's officiais. To impart to the advice there is no lack; Chambers' of restored Monarchy such an aspect of pro- Commerce, University professors, par greasive modernism as would "gratify chants, missionaries, and thirty-years-in public opinion in America, His Majesty the-country residents, all have remedial Pu Ti would, no doubt, consent to be- measures to suggest Generally speak come converted to Christianity and ing, the opinion of merchants and busi-
official monogamy. But these are details. nem men is opposed to continuance in the policy of lainer faire, of meek sub- The essential idea is to have the Mon- mission to conditions which are becomarchy restored upon a sound and well- supporting basis and possessed of an in- ing intolerable; but this opinion is more dependent income, secured against the
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Can we change the conditions we our fluence our destinies, so therefore we mast selves have made? Our characters in- see where we can improve our characters, motives which influence us. The Law of and that is best achieved by noting the Karma, like other natural laws, is not a
command but a 'statement of certain con-
dition obtains. We cannot break it or even bend it, but by knowledge we cau existence of this natural Law, that every modify its effects. Koowledge of the
force once created by thinking, feeling or acting will sooner or later return to its source of origin, to restore the equili brium in the Universe, will prepare us
for its consequences and the limitations which it brings into our lives can then be fully or are they not the means by which accepted bravely, cheerfully, even grate. we learn both our weaknesses and our Whatsoever a man doeth upon the earth strength. A St. Francis of Assisi said: he doeth it unto himself, whether it be 599 or whether it be evil" Why waste time in
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