The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-20
THE wHENCENESS OF THE WHY
Theosophy's Explanation Of the
Great Life Problems.
Evolution Considered in Cosmic
and Terrene View.
a Lecture Which Makes Some Startling
Allegations and Which Deals In
Immsnsity OF Time
and Thought.

DR.. Allen Griffith, the authority on
theosophy on this coast, lectured last
night at Unity church on Evolution
Cosmic and Terrene.
It presented some peculiar ideas, as
will be seen by perusing the following
report:
The speaker began by saying that the
analogies and known laws OF nature sub
stantiate theosophical teachings; that
there is but one authority for belief, and
that IL the individual conception. Fur
thermore, that conception will be broad
or narrow, liberal or illiberal. exactly
proportionate to individual develop.
ment. 1t lie therefore to the enlightened
and unprecedented mind that theosophy
appeals with the prospect OF being I'M
derstood and accepted.
Theosophy establishes three funda-
mental propositions:
Tristan omnipresent, eternal, i'm
mutsble principle, about which specula-
ton 10 useless, since it trsnscends finite
compreh ension. Gall 1t God. Deity,
Parabrahm, Allan, the Great Spirit-it
matters little. 1t symbolizes itself to
finite intelligence under two aspects,
viz: (a) Abstract motion, change, spirit,
the Great Breath, equaling cosmic idea
ton: fb> abstract space, representing
bare subiectiyity, the one thing which
no human mind can either exclude from
sny conception or conceive of by itself,
and which equals conmic substance.
From the first is derived human mind
and intelligence; from the second, mat
ter. The manifested universe 10 there
fore pervaded BY duality, i. g., ideation
and substance. spirit and matter. Apart
from substance, ideation could not man.
ifest az individual consciousness again,
apart from ideation substsnce would
remain an empty abstraction, and no
emergence of consciousness could en-.
eue. and there would exist no rationale
for existence of matter itself.
Spirit, or consciousness, and matter
are to be regarded not as independent
entities, but as two facets of the abso-
lutte. coeval and coexistent, which con-
stituts the basis of conditioned being,
whether subjective or objective.
There is. therefore. no dead or inor-
Qsnic matter, as there lie no blind or
unconscious law, but the contents OF
infinite spaces are embued with both
life and consciousness, each according to
its respective plane OF manifestation
representing q certain degree OF soohi-
ton. and each entity is pilgrim OF
eternity. in which it 10 ever q center
from which eternity stretches in every
direction.
Now, lust 81 the opposite poles of
spirit and matter are but the
two aspects of the one unity,
in which they are synthesized. 40
there Is that which links spirit and mat.
ter, subjsct and object. This "some.
thing" is known in the secret doctrine
as Fohat. 1t is the dynamic energy of
cosmic energy, the process by which
ideas, ever existant. are impressed upon
matter, known as the laws Of nature and
which electrifies every atom, world, sun
and system into life.
The second proposition is the eternity
of the universe, as q boundless plane, pc.
riodically the playground of number
less universes, continually appearing
and disappearing, each reappearance
being upon a higher, grander scale,
thus evincing an intelligent order and
design in manifestation and q morde
toward the Aoal OF an ever receding and
unattains BILE perfection. Day and night,
sleeping and working, life and death are
manifestations OF this universal law of