Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-03
THEosoPHY.
Mr.. Keightley's Lectures on that Subject
Yesterday.

Mr.. Keightley's Lectures on that Subject
Yesterday.
Bertram Keightly, private secretary to
Madame Blavatsky, spoke to s good audi
ence yesterday afternoon at Pythian Castle
on theosophic philosophy From the very
nature of the subject and the nicely in
meaning of the language employed by the
lecturer, to say nothing of its philosophic
character, no synopsis of ordinary length
can be made to convey an adequate idea of
the lecture.
Mr.. Keightly is rather pleasant speaker
who loves an ungraceful attitude He
adopts the conversational tone, and avoids
any Evolutionary effects. He claimed for
theosophy that it has the basis of deduc-
tons drawn from natural evidences. From
these evidences, which belong to the occult
world, it is deduced that the spiritual is the
real part of the being, that which is and
remains. The disclosure of the evidences
of this truth is through the exercise of
psychic powers.
He briefly sketched the growth of the
osophic philosophy, dating far back in the
annals of time its genesis. In the matter of
psychic knowledge and research, he said,
the early Egyptians were in many re-
spects in advance of moderns. Abb
stract space is the symbol of the
unknowable or ultimate reality, and by
which men mean God. This ultimate es
sence has substance, consciousness and
motive power. As all parts of the uni
verse are related, since it is whole, one
thing, all in it are bound together by the
ties of brotherhood. By spiritual culture
men attain to a true perception of this
brotherhood of humanity. This culture
initiates us, by successive stages, to
knowledge not otherwise attainable. This
knowledge opens to US mysteries otherwise
sealed against us. By this knowledge, so
opened to US as the grosser interests are
| subjected to and put beneath the spiritual
nature, we may acquire control over forces
of nature ordinarily unknown to us.
| The central thought of theosophy, and
on which is based all the possibilities re-
ferred to, is that all evil is the result of
seifishness, which must be eradicated in all
| its forms, and be superseded by broad and
| generous sympathy and the amplest recog
milton of the brotherhood of humanity.
| When the soul has finished the cycle of
life, if it is free from all dross, it is prepared
| for perfect rest 1t may then choose to en-
| ter Niryana. the universal good. or to re-
nounce Nirvana and work for humanity for
| Unreasonable time. If it chooses the lat
| ter, however, il takes upon itself all the
woes of the world because its culture has
made it supersensitiye to them in its all
embracing love for humanity.
| In the evening Mr.. Keightly spoke of
'Reincarnation and Karma." Karma is a
term signifying two things-the laws of
ethical causation, that is. that there shall
i follow harvests of that we SOW; and also
| that the balance or excess of merit or de
merit in any individual determines his or
her degrees of Joy or sorrow in each incar-
nation. Reincarnaiion is the doctrine Of
repeated birth into earth life, and that one
| life cannot exhaust earth knowledge and
| experience.