The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-29
to the same solemn music as before. and in the
following words:

Unvv ,iIvles y tuuuu wv stsIs
Let HIM immortal be
Deep Of the Soma he has drunk,
Sll9,ms Sn' n ,lesP m & he's q, sisp,;, sp,;,, eo.,.,
Let him Immortal be
Ifperfect now his soul be found,
ys ys him i% ,ss .ss s0r.Gus sEorS 81 essw ssy.
Let MIN immortal be
Advancing to n little stand at the head OF the
conn, the High Priest delivered his ADDRESS, ~
the request, he sail. OF the dead baron. The
Theosopbical society. he said, was organized on
Nov II last, to study the history OF ancient my
tholOgy and symboical ptilOsophy, and to en-
deavor to understand man In his relation wi h
nature. Wearied by modern science In its slow
progress, and the church, which mathematical
everything not In accordance with Its dogmas,
this purely scientific society determined to 20
to prim sources for the truth. OF this society
the deceased baron had been n devoted
member. he Baron de Palms ancestors
deceased was born Nav TO- 1919. He was edu-
Gated In the faith Of his fOrsfathers, and passed
the early part OF hts life In diploma ic service.
Hts principal passion then was longing to re-
ceiye new decorations. He said himself that
there was time In his life when he would have
pledged his soul to yet another oruer. Llter In
life he saw the vanity of this ambition, and,
having rare faculty OF story telling, he used to
rela.e incidents OF his wonderful career, telling
how he, IN his love OF display aud luxurious
indulgence, had suuandered fortune alter for
tune. After leaving the diplomatic service he
among the Indians OF the NOrthwest, whose
simple life he much admired In contrast to the
stay among the Indians was one OF the h ppiest
periods OF his life. As age crept over him he
bad not much occupied his thoughts in his
earlier life. He SAID that he wanted to believe
In future life, for without that to look forward
to he did not see what was the use OF mans
being created. Tue Church did not satisfy hm,
seek IN VAN. He received letters from various
mediums, from his departed friends, and, In one
DISTANCE, medium enabled him TO recover
large sum OF money for friend, Mrs Burke,
wnOHe case went into the courts.
He wenteu to 90 to the bottom of the matter,
and to know the laws Of Spihtualisn and life,
and for this reason he applied for admission to
the lheosophic Il Society. Before his death he
said he had found the straight path, that tue
clouds OF the future had parted for him and
hight W IS shining through. lie broached plan
OF founding colony of Theosophists 10 some
secluded spot. where they could study uudis-
turbed, but he was too practical to be led into
any hasty scheme. lie left tue residue Of hts
property to the speaker, Col. Ocott, with tho
unwiitten Understanding tnat II was to De used
Tor the benent Of the society.
his society was neither religious nor charita-
| BILE, but scientific. lis obJect was to inquire,
not To teacn, anu its members consisted OF men
| Of various creeds ana beliefs. Theology meant
the revealed knowledge Of God, and theosophy
the direct knowledge Of God. The one asked
US to believe what some one else had seen and
heard, and the other told us to and hear
what we can for ourselves. 1heosopby taught
that by cultivation Of his powers u man may be
Of his own God like qualities. Ii believed IN no
death-bed repentance. 1t considered the rufian
VINO stood under the gallows a ruiiisn still,
over him.
Here the High Priest was interrupted by clap
ping OF HANDS aud hisses, anu Was oOhged to
remind his hearers that they were attending a
funeral. aud to ask them not to applaud. lie
conceive OF bad going unpunlshed and good re-
naming unrewarued. Ii believed IN N to be a
responsible being, and 1t was religion not Of
professions but OF practices. IL was utterly
opposed to sensuousness, and taught tue
subordInation Of tue body to the spirit. There
| In that coffin lay a 1heoso phist. SHOULD his
Pronounced
ness Without respect to tho course OF his life
| Ne, but as he acted 50 should be suffer or
corrupter, then the divine urst cause could not
| forsye him the least OF hls offences. for that
here must be compensation, equilibrium,
justice Ancient theosophy held imtnovabiy TO
| tho Immortality Of tho soul. 4 ne soul wa.
believed TO have emnnated from the central
soul. and tnr boay had TO be subJueated to tie
spirit. 1t was no more thought that one could
suffer for anothers sins tn IN for another's gut-
tony or other physcil wrong doines 1hs, op.
posite belief WAS responsiole for the condition
| of the wodd to-day. L. nd Produced
the anfY broils Of convention. in
aud under Its influence congregations were seen
| banding together TO cloak ministerial sin and
| gid over stains in their conRregational charac-
| ter. The SC fold teemed with ruf1ans whose
s.ns II was believed nuttered woros would wash
rsmyant' mi. was seen in the wniskey frsnSs
| IN tue debauching OF public Offices. In the foul
| blots made on our honor by the B~iknaps and
i
W proxy.
| Another Orphio hvmn was to have followed
the High Priests address, but In consequence
Of the urganist's absence. II WIS omitted. Mr..
Emma riding Brltten then made brief ad-
dress, In which she declared that she, IA one
who hsd spoken with the arisen souls Of the
dead proclaimed by the reveai ion OF the Gre Il
Spint and MS mlnistering angels, that the deau
brother sat enfran cbised into the higher life
and was With his friends yet. They who were
searching the gre Il mystery Of life and death
had been revied and sCor d at. but here stand
tug among all the emtlrms Of ancient belief
they ought to be safe IRON slandeTous reyilings
am unkiud jests Mrs. Dritten thought that in
this Centennial year. when human enltAncnise-
msnt was celebrated, no one would want
10 impose chains ON the human soul. Then
turn toward the C filn she extended her
Speed home. friend and companion Thou
hast not left u-. WoknOw thai thou hast passed
the goluen gates wherein sorrow en;ereth not
and We bid thee God spAsd TO thy home Of light
| Although the golden bowl IL broken and the
silver cord is lOOsed, put on no weeds Of
mourning and we offer thee symbols Of fun
llwn human lite with these flowers 4"
lhe High Priest then pronounced tho obsA
quiss hnished, and the audience slowly dis
pers d. he Cofiin was left on the platform, and
LONG after all the ectators ana mem Oers Of the
society had gone away II remained alone. strip
ped OF It's decorations, and with only three or
four green palm br nches lying upon II, as Ii to
keep the wood nymphs near and pro ect the
uead Baron from the dreaded elemental spirits.
Toward nIghtf II 1t was taken ty the solitary un-
dcrtaker TO It's temporary resting place in a
vault of the Lutheran cemetery