St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-31
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THEOSUPnY 4 FAD.
Rather Strange Use for Trifiing
Little Word.


We hear great deal about fads, and
all can recall good many things that
are called fads; but TO call sue thing
+ as theOsOphy fad seems rather out of
place. FadS, we have been accustomed
to think. were light tri1leS that only very
giddy people gave themselves up 10. but
theosophy is no such thing. Many of US
have theories OF life, both as to physical
and spiritual, that have come to us as
the result of our own personal expert
enceS, that, as we hear those VINO be-
lieve in theosophy talk, we find to be
very like some of the conclusions
they claim to have reached by painful
thought and labor. However the truth
may be reached. 1t is truth. Can we
come nearer to this desired goal by lis
tening to the teachings of theosophy? A
bright woman in the New York Re
corder writes this way of theosophy.
Throsophy will have boom now that
persecution has begun. | believe that
nearly all people VINO accept the YlciS-
STUDIES of life with patient submission
are theOsOphistS in rough state. 1t is
not difficult to receive many of the
theoSoDhical theories. which are as CON-
Portable and as ineXplicable DIS homeop-
athic pills. They partake of the ideal
in way that cheers after the effort of
Scram5ling around on the solid earth
after the pennies needed to promote the
existence of our material natures.
1heos0phy is fad as it at present
dwellS among US. In the early days of
our country our ancestors were less toll
Grant OF fadS than now. Witclcraft
WAS fad. and that il was promptly eX-
tinguiShed goes without saying. Spirit
ualiSm followed it a century later, and
was adopted or eXpunged according to
the mental constitution of those who
came in contact with it. Many who re-
jected spiritualism now accept theOSo-
ply.
Every year brings its fad. 1t wasn't
such a great while ago that lnvaidS sat
about in sun baths through blue glass;
before that cold water treatment was
the thing. and since then we have drunk
hot water TOR our StOmach's sake. Chris
tian science cures sore eyes and rheu-
matlsm when licensed physician fail,
apd through it all the power OF thought
has been more potent than any one Of
us dared confess. Bread pills have
healed the same disorders for which
Christian science now sets up dis
pensary.
To every one who realizes peace of
mind-the kind that passeth all under
standing through theOSOphY the mod
ern science has proved q boon. Chris
tianS who enjoy their religion eXpe
rience the same Spiritual cOmpOSuTe.
The strength that is born of it is APP
parent, and needs no papers patent to
| testify to Its existence.
II 49,, I 4O1l
do not experience the peace of mind
| which up 10 date is life's greatest boon.
An active Imagination dances horn
pipe to the tune of the occult science.
| One of the disciples of the prieSteSs who
was gathered TO her fathers several
months ago tells me that the air is peo-
| pied with strange, unfrienuly creations
since she became an apostle to theOSO
| ply. Large green turtles regard her
| curiously. and grotesque beings not
( down i'll the catalogue OF the museum of
natural history make faces at her., |
am told, on the other hand, that this
! condition is one frequently experienced,
and that the pre- historic visitors in the
air are but the creations of diseased
| fancy; the same condition is recognized
| iy the child who is afraid of the dark.
| However, this seems to be an age of
! free thinking, and the fact that the
Wilson mission should discharge faith.
| full teacher because she chose to De a
theOsophlSt seems to point to tue fact
that all OF us are not reading ahead i'll
the book of the worlds progress. The
gospel of sympathy and charity and
! rlght-doing seems to be forgotten III the
| tiresome TRADES against heresy. The
osophy teaches that heresy consists
| chiefly in the forgetting CT the golden
rule. If persecution of it boomS the
neat little c0uplet beginning do unto
Others" then theOsophy is for deeper
| purpose than any of Us know.
| 5 mos interest allowed Jan. l, 1894
on money deposited at The State Savings
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Mlnn. StS., on or before Aug. 8.