THEOSOPHY.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF
RELIGIONS.
religion speaks one-letter of the great Name of God, the. One without a 800ond. God is so great, so illimitable, that no one roliglon,{ however porfact, can express His infinite perfection, and so also, a aspects of that myriad-foood Ex- rolig lon can only show forth some stones. Let the Christian teach
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1925.
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At the last Wednesday's public meeting of the Hongkong Lodge of the Theosophical Society, what he has to teach, but lot no wireless, a British Broadcasting lecture was given on "The Bro one refuse to learn from his Company's official says the mat thorhood of Religions."
The brother in Buddhism, in Hindu-ter is at present only in the ex- lecturer said in brief:-Each roism or of any other faith, for each perimental stage, and many pro- ligion is a divina mossage to the has something to learn, and some-oosses aro nOCDEBATY. world, based on the same funds-thing also to teach. The reasonvontors only claim that the voice The in- montal truths, proclaiming always why the roligions should not can be stored for some hours, but the same changeless moral law. quarrral is that all the great further experiments will probably Each of those divine messages truthe of religion are ceramon prove that they can be stored for contains another aspect of the property and do not belong oxa month. truth, of divine perfection, and alusively to any one Faith. That
develops and en lays particular is why nothing vital is gained by installing a telephone line from The system could be worked by stress on those qualities which changing from one roligion to the singer's house to the wireless the world or certain nations need-another. You do not need to studio whore
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ed most in their particular phases travel over the whole field of the machine is installed. Thus ro- of growth. All the great faiths religions of the world in erder words could be obtained of the world, Hinduism, Buddhism find the water of truth. Dis in occasions like the King's opening Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Is-the field of your own religion of Wembley.—Reuter. lam, etc., are branchos of the one and go dooper and dooper, fill tros of life, the one religion you find the spring of the water, the direct knowledge of God; the of life gushing up, pure and full.
religion of the divine wisdom. Four special linos of study may Religions use many methods, but be followed to establish the fact MOROCCO FIGHTING all have one object-the helping of the universality of religious of man through purification to truths, they are:-Common sym perfection. All having the essent-bols; common doctrines; common ial truths in common, they differ stories; common morale. Every- merely in details and the parti- whore in temples, tombs and cular aspects of the basic truth other buildings of dead and living brought out more prominently religione: the same symbols are
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GUARDIANSHIP ISSUE,
in each, and upon the common found. That the cross was used command of the forces under platform of all roligions over all over the world as a religious General Cambay and Colonel stood and now stand in fratornal symbol long before the time! concord and amity the Hidroph-of Jesus the Christ, is Froydenberg for the purpose of ants and esoteric Initiates of the matter not for argument but relieving the threatened French world's great, faiths.
In the for
ordinary reading. alder world with its national, Cross is the symbol of immortal
The posts on the Zaounat heights.
M. Painleve, in a spooch at religions we see the great rarity life, of the triumph of life over Grenoble, dealing with outstand- of religious wars. The man of death. There are a vast numbering political problems, roferring one nation had no wish to convert of other common symbols, which to Morocco emphasised that the the man of another nation. There all tell the everlasting truthe operations did not involve Coloni- was no lack of brotherly, feeling concerning God and Nature al expansion. The Governmont's amongst the religions and their Symbolism is the common lang- sole cbjective, which Marshal different schools of thought.
uage, and no roligion which uses Lyautey was faithfully carrying In Ancient Rome, all creada it (and all use is) can claim to be out, was to obtain rospect for Woro welcomed, all religions unique. As to common doctrines, France and the early re-establish- zexpected, avon honoured. In wo find that the fundamental ment of stable peace. He denied the Pantheon of Rome, the verities on which each religion is the reports of heavy French loss- symbols of every religion of its built form a common basic 08.-Reuter, subject nations were found structure. These common doc- reverently unshrined. We see trines are:-The Unity of God: the Telegrams from Tangior and that the' elder world Was Trinity of divine manifestation; Casablanca report that the thoroughly permeated by the the superphysical Hierarchios rebels are massing against the liberal idea that religion was a and their worlds; the nature of French lines with a view to an personal ex national affair, with man; his evolution; the great offensive.-Reuter, which one had the right to Laws. There are others, but
NOT VERY BAD LAW interfore. God was overywhere, those are the most important. Не was in everything, what Besides their common stories we
Sinao 'the days when the atten- The oase in which Chan Chiu mattered the form in which He be
tion of Le Roi Soleil was drawn shi claims that she was charged adored? He was the one unseen sublime morality is a common eternal Being, with many names, possession of the world-religions
says a writer in the London and well-being of the two infant what mattered the title by which is a fact too well established to
Morning Post, and the exquisite boys concerned, thereby being Ho was invoked? The watchword noed argument. Those
Chinese wallpapers were brought appointed their "compassionate" common of the religious liberty of the older ethics could be grouped under
to Franco, where they now sway mother, and in which she disputost world rings out in the splendid the headings of returning good
New York, May 21.
on their not backgrounds to every the right of Chan Young to let declaration of Shri Kriebna for evil, further humility and The referee accounting for the passing breeze, against the walls tors of administration in aspect "However men approach Me, of righteousness being more eighty million dollars estate of of seventeenth century chateaux, of the ostate of Chan Yiu, do- even so do I welcome them, for important than forms. A great the late Jay Gould has ruled there has been a slow but steadily coasad, was continued before Sir! the path mon taxe from every number of quotations could be that the marriage clause of the When one has fallen a complate Probate Jurisdiction this morning growing cult of Chinese art. Honry Gollan in the Court of side is Mine." It was the claim given in from the scriptures of all financier's will does not apply to victim to its delicato mysterious after a fortnight's adjournment. of supremacy by one religion, the great Faiths in support of remarriage. This clause stipulat-charm everything else appears and tão declaration of its being their common Ethics. The heavened that any of Jay Gould's six
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., with heavy and almost commonplace. the only true religion, the caly, ly root of all religions is wisdom, children who marry without the The very antiquity of Chinese Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed by inspired, the claim that they not faith, not belief, not hope, consent of the majority of the civilisation intrigues the beholder Mr. J. A. Gordon Leesk) appears Biono were right and all others but the knowledge of God which trustees, lose half the inheritance. of their screens and cabinets, for the plaintiff and Mr. Eldon wrong, and its attacking the other is Eternal Life.
The disposal of thirty million jewels, and embroideries. For Potter, E.C., with Mr. F. C. religions which had hitherto lived
dollare is said to hinge on this over three thousand years Chinese Jenkin (instructed by Mr. H. K. in pence side by sido, which gave
ruling of the referee, whose poets have "been singing their] Woo) defends. birth to the terrible religious per-
ruling was made orally. "He has songs and the craftsmen creating secutions in the name of the
indicated that he will prepare a beauty, "From the brink of deceased died intestate, leaving The case is one in which the Lord of Love of which we road
A movement for the abolition memorandum to the above effect Time's untarnished springs," but two infant sons and a concubine, of the entertainment tax was to and will add thereto a ruling it is only recently that the lure the defendant in the action. Chan be started in the House of Com-regarding the fortunes of the of their achievements has pene-Yourg, who is the natural nons when the Sossion is rosum- three children-M. F. Gould, trated to the man in the street.
brother of tho intestato, makes Guinevere The lovely Lowestoft porcelain his claim on the ground that hei ed after the Easter vacation. This George Gould and
American service first decorated by that is the head of the family, the Cantonese artist who lived and only adult male next-of-kin, and died some two hundred years ago, therefore the rightful guardian of were only for the wealthy, but the boys.
find their common ethick. That JAY GOULD'S WILL. to the fascination of Eastern art, by a dying mother with the care
in the history of the Church Aslam caught from Christianity the deadly" disonse of religious persecution and antagonism, in Indis the doom of the Mogui Empire rang out in the cries of the dying, slaugstored for the faith and there as in Spain it resulted in political disaster.
The multiplicity of religious beliefs would be an advantage, not injury to religion. Each
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ENTERTAINMENT TAX FIGHT.
IMPORTANT RULING.
Sinclair, Reuter's
statement was made at a moeting of the executive of the Entertain- Service. ment Tax Abolition League, and it was added that the campaign will also be conducted outside the House. The league aima at socuring the abolition of the tax this year.
OUR LIMERICK LINE CONTEST.
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One golfing cry always would sing,
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CANONISED.
Rome, May 21.
of Canisius.-
EARL OF YPRES.
of
London, May 21. To-night's bulletin shows the Earl of Ypres is weakening and very gradually sinking-Reuter,
the Willow pattern found its
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way into evoy cottage, and Mr. Fung Sao-lung, woll-known of late уздев tho advent Captonese lawyer, was again in
of the now ubiquitous kimono has the box this morning, being cross- opened the door to the introduo-examined by Mr. Jonkin on ques His Holiness the Pope has por-broderies of brilliant colour that He agreed that during "the life tion of all the intricate em-tions of Chinoe0 Law and usage. formed the canonisation Blessed Peter
are used to decorate almost every time, of a mother, she was the garment from evening cloak to person to have the sole charge of Reuter,
pyjama.
her husband's property, but he NEW USE FOR MANDARIN COATS, would not accept that the same The brilliant Chinese mandarin rule applied in the case of a taz coats that give their wearers the "W (compassionate mothor), appearance of "A road in motion though he admitted that it was and a rose in flame" are now not expressly stated in the Tai often used as theatre wraps, and Ching Tak Lai that the 'taz mo when these grow too heavy there was not in a similar position to a are. the shawls whose various mo (natural mother). benuttes must be acon to be be
Mr. Jonkin pointed out a lieved. A by-product of these decision of the. Peking Court garments is the bridgo conteo, whereby it was made clear that a where rich volvote and gleaming concubine could bo promoted to satins are allied to the discreet wife on the death of the kit fat. introduotion of elaborato
om Ho asked if that was bed law, broideries of intricate design with and Mr. Fung amused by ro All who have hold firinly to the a note of contrasting colour. The marking that it was not very bad belief and this includes the latest development in all this law, because, though it did not Soots themselves--that porridge allegiance to Oriental patterns
made: the Caledonian and colours is the pyjama boudoir agree with the commentary. It super-man will be grave-garment that rolegate the aulemn agreed with the text of the Tai
Ching Lai ly shocked by Professor Mel-teagown of the last generation to lanby's announcement that ana Victorian limbo. Its attrac- oatmeal diet tends to produce love cannot be denied, and if it rlokets. The Professor's theory induces a universal introduction is that the knobby knees and large of contral beating it will merit a fact of the Scot-erroneously re-monument in the sartorial world. garded as a by-product of the Scheherazade may have worn heather stop-are due to a diot something of this sort when sho deficient in antirachatio vita-invented bor immortal tales, and minou. The reason that the Scots' the modern and no less inventive physique is not more adversely young woman will find its onay affected is attributed to their par grace an inducement to forsake tiality for herrings, in which the the more clinging attire that noodful vitaminos are present in inspired that Chinose poot, of large quantities,
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