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THEOSOPHY.
INTELLIGENT THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE.
SATURDAY, JUNE
THE COAL STRIKE.
MINERS AND THE EXTRA HOUR.
London June 25.
A plea for an armistico in the cool dispute was made by Mr. A. J. Cook when interviewed by Reuter at Coventry,
Ab the last public meeting of the Hongkong Lodge The Theosophi tal Society on Thursday, Mr. H. E. Lanepart gave an address op "Theosophy" He said in bries Theosophy may be described to
He suggested that the Govern- the outside world as an intelligentment withdraw the hours Bill, and theory of the Universo, although agree to reopen the pits immedi for many who study its principles ately on the April tarms, then ar and apply them in their daily lives rangements could be made with it is no more a theory but a fact, the workmen's representatives The light It throws on the evol-whereby a settlement could im utionary journey, the needless duf-mediately be renched,
which fering caused by ignorance of the would give the miners justice and all embracing laws of the one life secure finality without compulsory It enables people to avoid, is arbitration. Let the Governmen one of the things that make The-hold out the hand of friendship osophy of great practical value in by making a definite and clear at- dally life. It presents a definite tempt at a peaceful settlement, system of self-development, ofthen he and his colleagues would character building, of purification give every assistance, provided the and illumination, and those who miners were guaranteed economic study Its remarkable statement security-Router. come into an entirely new way of looking upon existence, the nature
SILK FACTORY BURNED DOWN.
Paris, June 25. Fire completely destroyed the. silk factory at Belle Garde, and the damage is estimated at several million francs-Reuter.
and invisible
of Man and God, and the purpose A DISASTROUS BLAZE. and alm of Life. As the Theoso- phical truths become realities to the consciousness, and the "uxex- plained laws of nature and the powers latent in Man" are better understood, the Theosophustu- dent begins to aer and feel his trem quis personal responsi- bility for an intelligent co-opers tlon in the Glorious Scheme of the Great Architect of the Universe, and his duty for an intelligent un- foldment of the divine powers entrusted to him as a Son of God, tends to man's benefit, clearly it and his more or less vague hope is his duty to learn to understand of immortality changes to posi-it. 3. That when he understands. tive personal knowledge of it. it is also his duty intelligently to The facts about life which become co-operate in this scheme. From revealed through the study of the Second Great Truth It follows: Theosophy are of supreme import- 1. That the true man is a soul, ance to all, as we not only see and that his body (in fact his how we can tremendously accelerate several visible our own development by working bodies are only his instruments, in harmony with the hidden laws through which He, the Divine Son of evolution but also how to help of the Divine Father, infallibly others to evolve harmoniously, will learn in time to reveal the by thought and action and ab- full glory of his Divine birthright. sense of waste to make ourselves 2. That he must, therefore, regard more useful, first to the small everything from the standpoint of circle of those we love and then the soul, and that in every case gradually hy degrees, as our when an internal struggle takes power through knowledge and place he must realize his identity well directed service increase, to with the higher and not the lower. the entire human race. In the S. That what we commonly call light of the information placed his life is only one day in his true before earnest students of Theoso- and larger life which is not affect- ed by socalled "births" or "deaths" phy one feels oneself lifted to a higher point of view, and one in the physical world. 4. That sees how narrow and irrational-in death is a matter of far less im- the greater scheme-is the petty portance than is usually supposed, personal thought and one begins since it is by no means, the end to regard everything not merely of life, but merely a change in consciousness with the 'dropping of it affects .our
one of our bodies--the densest- tesimal selves, but
the physical, only: 5. That, man the wider standpoint
has an immense evolution behind
infini-
from of
its influence upon humanity as a him, the study of which is most
whole.
Its Outlines,
fascinating and instructive. Ú. That he has also a splendid evolut The bread outlines ..
of tion" before him, the study of Thesophy have been known in the which is even more fascinating and world for thousands of years, and instructive. 7. That there is an so they are known at the present absolute certainty of final attain day.. There are three truths ment, of salvation or liberation for which are absolute. 1. God existe, every human soul no matter how and Ho is good. He is imma- far he may seem to have strayed" nent in all and there is nothing from the path of evolution. From Which is without Him. II. Man is the Third Great Truth it follows: immortal, and his future is full of 1. That every thought, word, or splendour and glory. III. A Divine Law of absolute justice rules the world, so that each man is in truth his own judge, the dispenser of glory and gloom to himself, the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. From the First Great Truth it follows: 1. That, in spite of all appearance, all things are definitely and intel- ligently moving together for good; That it is necessary far man that all circumstances, however, the soul-the immortal divine Ego untoward they may seem, are in within to attain perfect control over his bodies of action, of desires reality exactly' what is needed for,
action produces definite results, as all Humanity is One Life and Harmony, equilibrium, will always re-assert itself bringing either happiness or woe to man. 2. That it is both the duty and interest of man to study this divine law closely, so that he will be able to adapt himself to it and, use it as we use other great laws of nature.
our divine progress; that every- and of thought so that he may thing around us tends, not to guide his life Intelligently towards hinder us, but to help na, if we perfectly unfolded, perfectly would only understand, 2. That, manifested Divinity, in accordance "since the whole Divine scheme thus with God's great Plan for men.
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