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TAOISM.

LECTURE AT THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

At the weekly meeting of the Theosophical Seriets held yester day. Mr. M. Masuk lectured on

Taoism. He said:

right.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1923

All things depend on it for life and it denies none,"

Second: The Tax as expressed

in "As Creauon.

UBITerbe

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The Tao produced one, the one produced two and the IWO parduced her, the three produced all

"The mother of all things is the nameless

things. To" and he stratifies both the un-

manifested and the manifested. Two as one and the same. **Thus while the eternal not being the unmanifested Tso leads towards the fathomless, the eternal being craducts to the boundary manifestation. Although there two hare been differently named they came from the same."

He teaches, ke all the religions

Lau-Tzu, altas 1.ao Chu. alias Leo Tan, was born B.C. 60; and was toe of those God inspired men who, having mastered the for tuitous in life, »lipped out frour the shadow of the temporal into the clear serene atmosphere of the Dine." He was a keeper of the records in the capital of the State of Chau, but retired from offre und from the kea of mankind base studied. that the gual of humanity - the ultimate returu because the corrupt state of society and the absence of spin. 10 cr unica with Tus and plac+ 3 tuality. There is no record as to this ideal unica er yoga before his

followers. where he died, but before leaving the basis of me he let the bout know --Tao-t-b-king" which he wrote at the request of. hi friend Yin Rai.

*

Be was a contemporary of Coa fecius and there Is

record

of abei baving m cave al- though Law Thu's disciple Chutang! Tuould have us believe that tbese two great masters met more than once, so it is saal that it is entirely due to Chusaby Teu and his effort to berg into rideule the speter of Contucanism that breach was created

the teschiog of the two master.

betwee

All things thrive and increase, then each return again to the rost (its source to report that they buve fulfilled tbrit Jestidy. Though the body be no more there is then no danger."

Individual Conduct.

in the conduct of, the individual Lau. Tas rajcias the absolute elimination of devire of worldly objects, absolute self control, art- vice and self sacrifice and a cos teroplative mind which shall dwell on Tao and his attributes. H: says: "When the desirable is left About the time when Lau Tzu unDoticed the heart is not confused. lived a wave of spiritual enlighten. It is better to leave alone than to ment appears to base sweps over grasp at fullness. None can per the world, mure particularly tect the Hall that is filled with Gold Asia. Confucius,

Pythagoras,and Jade. By steadily discipliame Thales, Solon, Zurcaster and the animal nature until it becomes Buddha and the Hebrew prophets one pointed it is possible to exta- Producing? of the captivity all lived and taught, blish the Invisible. about the same period.

The Supreme Monarch" The Te teh-king. " or the Sempture on the Eternal and its Characteristics." is the only bock which can be said to have been written by Lau-Tzu and it adopted

F * Canon ** in A. D. end sad the Emperor Kau Tsung gave him the posthumous title The Supreme Monarch of the Profoundest Mystery".

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as

Beth Lau Tzu's sad Confuerus"

nourishing developing without self consciousness! Progressing withous thinking of growth! This is the abyss of energy ur Godliness). By purity ing the mind of Phantoms it is possible to become without fault ".

** Looked for but Invisible—is may be named colourless.

Listened for, but loaudible-mit way be named elusive.

Clatebed at, but unattainable--

it may be named subtle.

한

There three cannot be unraveled

teaching in their day formed on by questioning for they blend int

Neither brighter stove zor darkeri below.

ideal plan of life, but unfortunar-lone. since then edo bave been made to separate the metaphysical system of the one irom the practical ethics of the other. To understand the teachings of Lac Tenis is ceces sary to have some knowledge of the vario Systems of metaphysics contained in the Sacred Fooks of

to

Its line, through continuous. is nameless and in that it revert to vacuity.

the Form

It may be styled the formless. **The image of the ageless, in & word ..'Ib.. indefinite.

Go in frost of it and you will discover no beginning.

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This reminds us very much of the ́aying of Jesus, "He who would the East, but when these are

find himself must love himself'. understood and appreciated we -hall ad. Abed Remusat

As we read though the Turb contends, that "The ductrine cos taids all that uncommonly attributed Fallow after and you will perceive cannot but be struck with Eis Coprian conceptio of society Pythagoras. Plato and the Go ending. disciples and.

Lay bold of this ancient doctrics and Government. Like Plato, be as Victor Van

seems to base thought that "Uutil, Strauss ys, that

applyizz in controllite the things kings are philosophers and phuon work contains a group of thought, of the present day, you will then subers are inga cities will bever s height of contemplation, a purity--tsad box from the first it

cease from ill" and tries to reduce of coaception in the things of and bas been the origin of everything.

hfs to its utmost simplicity so that uch as we fiol in the Jewish Bere indeed is the clue to the nothing ball interfere with the Scriptures".

contemplation of the Ian. such an ideal unfortunately can never be made to materalize so long

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of

Like all great spiritual teachers Lau Tau was little known or ap LADIES' precisted by his root-mporaries,

Mle. Dyer Ball sa T BOOTS Chinese" "In this Lau Tzu, "the founder of Taoism, we have one of & those met whose writings, life and

reputed actions have exerted s SHOES

untold idence na the course of human life in this world but of Very Low whom the world during his lifetime

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took so little account that all that is authentically known about him may be aurumel up in a few lines".

His Teachings. Lau Tzu refers to Tao as possess ing two distinct aspects.-

First: As the pacelts the upkoowable sad the unmanifested.

do

kocw ita natoe characterize it the Tao. the Eternally Nameless". "Sup-| reme is the Tan. All pervading it can be on the left hand and on the

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Tao.

The Simple Life.

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be no more.

Abaodno cleverness, discard gain, robbers and thieves will Better observe simplicity sad moderate desire Abandon pretentious right eousness and the people will return to list love."

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TAO."

A Mystic and Man of Peace.

the fau emedying the Too, able the master thinker will em- Lsu Tzu's ideal of existence was there are men in various stages they become indentified with the ploy soldiery. The master thinker If sizcecity is lacking it will cot praise a victory; to do so ever the simple and the sincere of moral and spiritual evolution.. lite free from the evils of passion. any more than we can hope to see

is because it & superficial faith. would show delight in the slaugh- ter of mea. Ar for those who de- hypocrisy, insincerity and cunning the sermon on the Mount live. up!

Lau-Tzu was a mystic to every light in the slaughter of mea, the to by all the followers of Christ. But nevertheless these are ideal sense of the word wbure one ideal world is too small for the gratifica- which, like a shrming beacon, lead a to know and identify himself top of their desires".

It is little wonder that when bumanity from selfshness to the with Tao and, like all other mystica,

found himself alone Confucious whose teachings were rarer atmosphere of spiritual life and he often & life of self-sacrifice.

and misunderstood. My homeless entirely erbiral and objective) met heart wanders among the things of Lau Tzu, the master metaphysici The influence of a man of God.ose as if it bad nowhere to stay.no, he returned to his disciples and free from passion and firbo. Boundless as the sea drifting to said: is well described in the following and fro as if without a place to

a alone, difering from I know that fiabes can swm, I passage: He rezuluiosiz-s be tay. I place be dwells in. His depth is others in that I reverence and seek know that wild animals can ru immeasureable, be strengthens the Nursing Mother".

For the running oor could make moral qualities by what he bestows.

He was an advocate of peace aoses, for the swimming one could be augments sincerity by what be and di-liked WEATH He writes make nets, for the dying one could say, he evokes peace by beWhere military camps ars establia make arrows. As to the dragon, I administration, his tradeactions hed. briars and theros tuuri-b. eaooot koow. He can bestride wind manifest ability, be is opportuns when great armies bave moved and clouds when be beavenward in all bis musements. Wherefore, hrough the land, calamities are rises. To-day, I saw Lan Tzu; be settling everything in accordance

eure to follow. Ouly when inevita perhaps like the dragon".

He enjoias self sacrifice which

brings its own reward. **Tbe

higher the moral work of the man the less be values bis on act." Nature continues loog.

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