St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-15
TOLD STRANGE FACTS
The Great Theosophist Led
Her Audience q Mental :
Dance.
Annie Besant Talks Of the
Evolution Of Man to the
Divine.
1t Was Interesting, But to
Those Who Heard 1t All
Greek.
Some Very Unique Ideas,
Very Prettily Put in
Words.

Mrs. Annie BeSant lcctureQ at lne
Unity church last night, under the
auspices of the Theosophical society, to
a crowded house. She was in roduced
to the audience by Mrs. Henulng, the
president of the society, and began her
address by saying that theosophy was
simply reaffirmatiOn of the truths OF
the oldest religions. They are seekers
after truth wherever it may be found.
EvolutioniSts make the mistake of say
ing that man is the development from
the animal. This is true only 50 far.
All things spring from {. protoplasm or
germ; from the form we cannot tell to
what family the germ belongs, but each
germ bears in it the possibilities of the
thing into which 1t may develop; the
animal germ develops into the animal,
the human into man.
When, man. through many developments,
reaches the stature of a man even lie it ever
so primeval creature, he is then ready for
the possession of that soul, the thinker that
Sc parates him from all the other animals and
links him 10 the divine. All that we know
and call the senses is but the consciousness
of the vibrations of the AIR, the ether about
us, and those vibrations cause US to see and
vibrations. and vibrations Of touch, and there
are vibrations beyond our reach, those be
You'd the violet ray of the spectrum The
senses are evolved from the sense of touch.
We now recognize five senses. Man must
have five senses to be a perfect
man. We hear latjerly Of sixth
sense. the sense OF thought trains
mission; the power of one BRAIN to respond
10 the thought of another is called The
sixth sense We shall vet reach the point
Jvb 10 a az he Ihprp
more talk of this sixth sense here in Amer
lea than anywhere else, because you are the
youngest nation and have more readily as
simulated the spiritual truths than the older
nations have, and are By that fact better pre-
pared for the
Manifestation OF New Truths.
When what we theosophists call the think
er comes that is the same thing as the birth
of the soul, and now begins its schooling. If
you cannot believe that the soul makes
for itself mask or body. you have only to
look at the faces of two men, one who
has lived what you call good life
and one who has lived bad life. See how
beautiful is the expression of the good mans
face; that is because the soul has chastened
the features till they express what are the
dominant sentiments of the sOul--goodness
and purity You will all acknowledge that
this life is too short for the perfecting of an
immortal soul. so when death comes where
will it go? If death comes before all its les
sons are learned then this life is waste. for
if it goes to heaven there are none there who
need its ministry, and ii is through serving
that the soul grows, not to hell, for there it
would be powerless 10 help even though it
strove with all its powers; there is no other
way, then, but reincarnation. The soul
comes back 10 life after life until all the les
sons are learned. How else can you account
for the worldwide difference III human
beings? We say of children they are
born with certain tendencies, as one is born
with a tendency to crime, another with Il
tendency TO right; shall we believe thai
these things are accidental? No; it is bias
phemy to the power that has made and rules
the world to say such thing as that. We
are the architects of our own future. II we
by proper living impress the better tenden-
cies upon our souls, we shall grow upward.
We talk of genius; what is genius? 1t is the
memory of the soul. How can you account
for Shakespeare by any other hypothesis?
1t was not incredibly, for he was born of poor,
ignorant parents, and grew up in the same
circle, vet there is not feeling or emotion
of the soul of man or woman that he has not
portrayed. The ordinary man cannot re-
member the things of his past life; we do
not think our brains are.
Like yYayside Inns.
where vagrant thoughts stroll in and spend
the night, passing Oh after paying their reck-
oning i'll the morning. When SOULS rein
carnated i'll the morning it naturally CRAWL
tates towards the group of beings to which it
belongs. The dominant desires of this life
will impress the soul so that when it comes
OH earth again those desires will determine
its bent here. Take for an example of this
fact man very we'll known i'll England, the
late Lord SALISBURY, who, though born to
all that rank and money could give, yet
spent his whole life III working for the poor.
He got more laws passed to help the laboring
classes Than any other man who ever lived
in that country. He helped the miners. and
SO good were his reforms that the women
in the mining towns would hold up
their children as he passed that they
might look OH the good Setley as
he was then called and see the men whose
efforts made it possible for them to be born
and live above ground. From whence did !
did he get his passion of self-sacrifice if he
had never lived life of toll and privation
himself. The road of service is the road 10
the Divine. A Buddhist book says that
Buddha perfected his VOW by ages of rein
carnation and service and suffering. The
way of the truth is the way of the cross.
Virtue offers no easy way, but this path leads
to perfection.
After the lecture permission was given for
questions. Several were asked by people in
the audience but they seemed to be mostly
from those who did not or could not under.
stand the drift of the speakers mind and
thought. After all the beautiful things she
has said she has only repeated what many
people have been saying to comfort
for ages past.
Is. .. z. c. III.
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