The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-13
TEE qHEOSOPHISTS
The Lecture of William Judge
Before That Society.
JESUS WAS A SORT OF MAHATMA
The Definition Of Mahatmas-lt Is Human
Being So Wise That lie Knows
All Things.

Especial TO THE HERALD-Examfner Disnatcb1
New YORK, May 12.-'There is more evi.
dence of the existence of Mahatmas than
there is that Napoleon and Jesus existed. -
So spoke William Q. Judge in a lecture be-
fore the Aryan Theosophical society to-
night. The theosophists of Gotham were
there for the purpose of finding out the
best way TO become Mahatmas. The
theosophical definition of Mahatmas is very
long, but ii you want a newspaper deflni--
ton, 1t IS human being 50 wise that he
KNOWS all things in the universe and can
control the elements at will. 1t can be-
either lady or a gentleman, for in Ma
hatamadom the rights Of woman suffrage
is conceded.
Inere were about two hundred people at
the meeting tonight They were INTEL
ilgentIooking and most of them had
BULGING FoREHEADs.
| Halt of the audience were women. but
they were not of the Mary Jane Walker
! type, but some had far. off look in their
eyes. Mr.. Judge is secretary of the Ameri-
can branch OF the theOsophical society. He
was Intimately acquainted with the late
Mime. Blavatsky and has spent many years
| 10 india In sausk-it research. Mr. judge
denned Mahatma as perfect human being.
lie SAID 1t took thousands OF years TO be-
come so. Man. he declared, was part of a
universal and divine spirit
THERE WAS NO GOD; MAN WAS HIS OWN COZ.
This universal spirit could perceive oHIy
through intuition. It was once unrefned
| and unsympethetic Evolution demanded
| that it should gain experience on earth. In
order to know all things in the universe it
was necessary for men to 90 through every
! experience and stage of humanity This
could not be possibly gathered in one life.
50 1T was necessary to be reborn, perhaps
thousands or times, The object OF all this
was that the perfect man should bei
evolved. Wien that stage was reached
man would discard his physical body and
return to his original purely spiritual state,
knowing all things in the universe. But
| this earth wasn't all. The same trip would
| have TO be made on all the planets.
After returning to the purely spiritual
state some of the perfected beings returned
for the benefit of mankind to earth. This
! necessitated their going back in to the flesh.
| The Mahatmas made their home in no par
ticuler place; their knowledge of the laws
OF nature was 80 complete that they could
travel frou San Francisco to New York in
! jiffy, and they could communicate with
each other instantly, regardless of distance
and without wires of any kind There
were
THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD.
''rhe great American question is," Mr1
Judge continued, sis why don't the Mzhat-
mas show themselves and prove that the
osopby is true. That's Just what the Ma
hatnaS don't want. knowledge cannot
come through blind belief. When the mind
has sufficiently evolved it believes because
IL knows not because somebody says so.
What would be the result if Mahatma
would make an exhibition Of himself The
people would PROSTATE themselves before
him and worship him as God, just as the
western world has done with Jesus
Jesus was a sort of a Mahatma. He
never said he was God. But people were
cot sufficiently enlightened 10 receive the
real truth, SO disciples of Jesus taught the
bible literally The bible is only an ale
CORY of Mahatmas. They don't want noto~
risty. They eau accomplish their purpose
better in silence. 1 want TO say in conclu-
sion, that the existence of Mahatmas is not
theory. 1t is a fact. There is no lack of
honest, conscien deus and rational peoples
who have seen the Mshatma."