Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-23

thinking machine, which halts not in its
revolutions from cradle to grave. Even
the midnight does not stop the thinking
machine for when we are in dreams we
are thinking, although we do not think
as well. All of us who are accustomed
to thinking want to reach some solid
shore of safety and satisfaction, and If
any one has good lifeboat that we may
honorably take I wish he would I'M
swing it from the davits and let us get
into it and put for shore.
But give you fair notice I must first
examine the lifeboat before I risk my
loul in it or advise you to risk your soul
in it, All the splendid Ramsgate life
boats, and Margate lifeboats, and South
Shields lifeboats, and American lifeboats
were tested before being put into prac-
teal use as to their buoyancy and speed
and stowage and self righting capacity.
And when you offer my soul lifeboat
must first test it.
THE THEOSOPHIC LIFEBOAT.
Here is splendid new lifeboat called
Theosophy. It has only a little while
been launched, although some of the
planks are really several thousand years
old, and from a worm eaten ship, but
they are painted over and look new.
They are really fatalism and pantheism
of olden time. But we must forget that
and call them theosophy. The Grace
Darling of this lifeboat was an oars
woman by the name of Nine. Blavat-
sky, but the oarswoman now is Annie
Besant So many are getting aboard
the boat it is worthy of examination,
both because of the safety of those who
have entered it and because we ourselves
are invited to get in.
It's theory is that everything is God.
Horse and star and tree and man are
parts of God We have three souls-an
animal soul, a human soul, a spiritual
soul. The animal soul becomes, after
awhile, wandering thing, trying to ex-
press itself through mediums. It enters
beasts or enters human being, and
when you find an effeminate man it is
because woman's soul has got into the
man, and when you find masculine
woman it is because a mans soul has
taken possession of woman's body.
If you find woman has become
platform speaker and likes politics, she
is possessed by a dead politician, who
40 years ago made the platform
and on, and may have so or innumer-
able different forms, and finally is
absorbed in God. It was God at the
start and will be God at the last. But
who gives the authority for the truth of
sucha religion? Some beings living in
cave in central Asia. They are invisible
to the naked eye, but they cross CONT
nents and seas in a flash.
My Baptist brother DR.. Baldeman says
that theosophist in New York was WIS.,
tied by one of these mysterious beings
from central Asia. The gentleman knew
it from the fact that the mysterious be-
ing left his pocket handkerchief, en-
broidered with his name and Asiatic res
idence. The most wonderful achieve
lnent of the theosophists is that they
keep out of the insane asylum. They
prove the truth of the statement that no
religion ever announced was so absurd
but it gained disciples.
Societies in the United States and Eng
land and other lands have been estab-
lished for the PRONUNCIATION of theosophy.
Instead of needing the revelation of a
Bible you can have these spirits from a
cave in central Asia to tell you all you
ought to know and after you leave this
life you may become a prina donna, or
robin, or q gaZelle, or q sot, or prize
fighter, or a Herod, or Jezebel, and so
be enabled to have great variety Of
experience, rotating through the uni
verse, now rising, now falling, now
shot out in {; straight line and now de-
scribing parabola, and on and on, and
up and up, and down and down, and
md
that theosophic lifeboat has been
| launched. It proposes to take you off
the rough sea of doubt into everlasting
ouietude. How do you like the lifeboat?
/ NV opinion is you had better initiate
/ the mariners of my text and cut off the
ropes Of that boat and let her fall off,
BOAT THAT LEAKS.
Another Iifeboat tempting us to enter
| is made up of many planks Of good
i works. It is really a beautiful boat
al1nsgiving, practical sympathies for
! human suffering, righteous words and
i righteous deeds. must admit I like the
i looks Of the Prov, and of the rowlocks
! and of the paddles, and Of the steering
! gear, and OF many who are thinking to
! trust themselves on her benches But
ehe trouble about that lifeboat is it leaks.
! never knew q man yet good enough to
earn heaven by his virtues or generosi-
j ties.
/ If there be one person here present
on this blessed Sabbath all Of whose
/ thoughts have been always right, all Of
i whose actions have always been right, and
all of whose words have always been
right, let him stand up, OF if already stand
ing let him lift his hand, and 1 will know
! that he lies. Paul had it about right
when he said, by the deeds Of the law
shall no flesh living be justified" David
had it about right when he said, e.There