St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-09
A PHILOSOPHICAL TALK.

To form nucleus of a universal
brotherhood Of humanity.
To remote the study of Aryan and
other Eastern literatures, religions and
sciences, and TO demonstrate their im-
portance.
70 investigate unexplained laws Of
nature and the pSychical powers latent
in man.
Such are the ayOWed purposes of the
| ThePSOphical society that was founded
in New York fifteen years ago, bur it
goes much further into the realm of the
| mythical and phases of existence that
are commonly pronounced unknOwable.
The deV1tetS Of the new religious
| faith are opponents of reincarnatiOn or
! Karma. and the local society was given
| considerable impetus by lecture last
night by w. q. Judge, prominent
| lawyer of New York, who has embraced
| the theories and wine is the general sec
| rotary OF the American braDch. He Oc-
cupied the Unitarian pulpit. and the
auditorium was filled to its entire seat
| ing capacity.
Mr.. Judge began his discourse by
Celebrating the different forms of relig-
ious faiths from all historic times. and
pointing out the general similarity
found in the divers doctrines. He de
clared that they were all based
really upon one principle, and he
asserted in SubStantiatiOn of this
position that the more familiar of
Christian religion stories have been
found repeated on brick tablets found
in towns and cities left there by the
AssyrianS centuries before the advent
of Jesus Christ, land yet the fanatics Of
to-day claim that they were copied from
the New Testament he declared.
Delving into the ethics OF his theme,
Mir. Judge took up the
Nature OF Nan
and made an analysis, and he asserted
that the same principles relative to the
theoretical origin of man are found i'll
the Christian Bible and in the Hindoo
liIerature-lOng before ChriSt's time, or
300 years before. And the BuddhiStS
and ConfucianS taught the same
thing, and it was declared in pol
iShed phrases that truth is a thing
that man discovered, and not Il thing
that was ever revealed TO man 10y one
never discovered and one that is not
tangible. Most men think God is a
huge man spread all over the skies, and
yet the Bible insists that God is past
finding out. Mr. Judge saw nothing
but fallacies and Inconsistencies in the
two claims. lie could not conceive how
any man can describe anything that is
past finding out.
A comprehensive research into an
tique lore disclOSpS the fact that all an
cient religions. and all mOlern reiig
ions. except the dOgmatic forms of
Christian religions, have taught and
| are now teaching The science of cyOlu-
! ton. The older centuries said man was
] lint IN fny : n
! Jaw Of evolution, because it involves
| ethics that are uuanSWPrable. But they
| say evolution began after God had ere
/ ated the beginning. IheOSODhy says
! evolution is the law, and that the spirit
! and the matter are inSeparable and i'll
| dissOiuble. Huxley says we can never
| know Eature as it iS-only know the
! form. In the beginning there was a
| mass-the first thing homogeneous and
then it turned into the heterogeneous
| OF many forms. Science accepts this
! hypothesis, but
Removes the spirit.
Science then explains that mind APP
! peared out OF chaos. which is something
! out OF NOTTINGHAM absolute impoSSi-
! bility.
Mr.. Judge amplified upon the eX-
| PLANTATION offered by the science OF the
OSophy upon the origin OF man. He
said the plan was there, and the man
was there, at the very beginning: but
he could not BE- called man. for man
means the development of mind. The
! principles of evolution teach that first
| came the minerals, then the creation
| OF the rocks, then the vegetable,
| and after that followed the
| school of the anima! kingdom. The
human form IS compound of the min
! eral. OF the vegetable and the animal
| matters. and then the mind was evolved
! from these. While one form was III proc
t eSS of transition another form was
active III the sequentiai course of ey0lG-
| ton. Man is the highest point of evolu-
| li0a-t!Ie apex and the keY-anjl until
| he moves on nothing in the system of
evolution can move.
TheoSaphy teaches that evolution en-
! cOnDaSsed seven planes 10 produce man
| as he is and as he Will bc. But cvOu-
ton has i:ot stopped here because man
is The crown OF It.
Children pass quickly through the
! foruiS uOW. whereas countless ages
passed iii pertecting the type in ancient
J times. There are seV2u-fOid classified
| tons. The common acceptatiOn is the
! two-toli form. the soul and the body
bG5 ST. Paul taught the threc-told sYs-
| TEN. Che body, the soul and the spirit.
Dir. judge had never heard any one
preach Tie doctrine. and ne assigned as
the reason the claim that uG one under
stands it nor can discriminate between
the soul and the spirit. Yet in the
ethics of Christian religion there are
| these three forms.
Tiien Mr. Judge took his hearers
| through an exposition OF the component
parts of nan. First came the body,
which he passed by with a mere men
ton, and then lie claSsed the life priv
ciplc rs the secondary condition il the
! mysterious composite. Science. he said.
is now beginning 10 adniit the universal
life principic--that is universal stream
Or ocean OF life s.pon which all float.
Third was ranked design" upon
which tie body is constructed. ana 70
make this more plain the lecturer
searched nomenclature and pronounced
it
The Astral Body.
Changes are constantly going on wear
after year, until soon nothing is left of
the original body OF men, and yet man
! retains fEs.