The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-06

sious to this one you were not as good
as you should have been, and conse-
quently you are suffering for 1t now.
But Karma also tells you that il you
are very good and bear your discom-
forts bravely, and even happily, you
will have everything in the next
world which you lack in this.
Fancy yourself having a conversation
with Karma here in Chicago. If you
are like the average tourist who is here
TO enjoy the fair on average means,
Karma would say To you:
"Never mind il the cars are crowded
so that you cannot get a seat. You
probably made others stand when you
were alive in the previous life, and
this is as good as you deserve"
Or Karma would say: 'Be happy
with the sandwich you are eating for
your lunch. 1t has no butter upon it,
that is true. Ii is no larger than a
souvenir dollar. 1t cost you forty
cents and the plate upon which you
are eating il was ten cents extra. But
never mind! BE happy! When you
were alive, before, you were no doubt
very disagreeable to hungry people
and the worlds fair sandwich is your
reward"
And then Karma would add: "But
be calm! Choke it down. In the next
life you shall have Vienna bread, gilt
edged butter, fine china and a cup OF
crystal water. Drink mud now and be
happy, tasting the crystal water in
your minds eye for the present"
With these precepts laid down before
you, you cannot help seeing that
theosophy has it's merits and that
Karma is very comfortable thing to
have in the house.
Chicago theosophists expect TO add
at least five thousand converts during
the worlds congress- To become q
theosophist convert you do not have to
believe. You have only to say that
you are willing TO read the books taat
tell you what theosophy is. Then you
pay one dollar and you are theoso-
phist for three months. At the end
of that time you can pay two dollars
more, and be theosophist for year.
OF course you might be a theosophist
without paying a cent, II theosophy
were different. But unfortunately
you have to study all the time, or read,
and the books cost money. This ac-
counts for the dollar. 1t is in no
sense a money making scheme and puts
TO the blush many sects whose motives
are manifestly mercenary.
Theosophists are absolutely unselfish
and even careless in money matters.
Blavatslky never had a cent. And
Annie Besant is often without car
fare. When she travels money is raised
for her.
Annie Basant, who Is undoubtedly
the leader in -theosepAyy- now that
Blavatslxy is no longer on earth in the
flesh, says that Blavatsly frequently
communicates with her and has even
sent her instructions in handwriting.
But Mrs Besant has not got as far
along in the occult science as BlavatslSy
was at the time of her death and, so, the
dead high priestess Is waiting appar-
emily for her followers to catch up
with her before she instructs them any
further.
This Mrs. Besant says Is ''veddy veddy
sad, but less onfawtunate than if il
had been awtherwise. n
On White Lotus day the theosophists
are on the lookout for astral bodies, for
it is then they return to comfort be-
levers.
The favorite way Of reappearing is
to show a hand with pen in il ready
to write n message. Blavatsly's hand
and arm have appeared SO often that
now there is being made silver hand
and arm which is to be placed in q
theosophists' hall in the west.
The hand and arm are Dlavatsky's,
but the pose is that of Ada Rchan's
"Statue of Justice" BlavatslSy is sup
posed TO be weighing the good and
bad deeds of her followers in silver
scale.
Hermann, the magician, is doing, or
trying to do, funny thing. Herr
mann is an unbeliever in all sciences
except his own. He takes no stock, SO
to speak, in spiritualism. theosophy, or
the occult sciences. He says that there
is nothing in any of them which he
cannot easily reproduce by his "nagic"
and he is spelling to get a chance to
do IL.
OF course, il would be very undig-
niiied thing for the worlds fair people
TO allow n magician to enter into COM
petition with the spiritaalists, or the
theosophists. But there are those who
are naughty enough to enjoy seeing
pet fancies put to fight. And these
are making arrangements to get hall
in Chicago, where they can place our
Hermann and the Hindoo magician
HadH Naja opposite some Chicago
spiritualists and advanced theosophists.
Hermann says he can produce five
bodies where they can produce one.
And Hadji Naja says that he will make
a snake talk, while the theosophists
say that Blavatsky will write letter
on this occasion.