The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-10
THE SOULS PILGRIMAGE.
WHAT MRS. THIRDS TALKED ABOUT
LAST NIGHT.
Progress of Entities From the Mineral
Through Nature to the Spiritual
state.

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ing lecture at Theosophical hall, Friday
evening. Her subject was The Pill
grimage Of the Soul' and for an hour
she talked in that smooth, eloquent
strain that renders most of her lectures
pleasant to hear. From the lecture the
following principal points are extracted:
The soul OF man is an emanation from
God and in its ultimate development a
threefold entity, namely spirit or life
and its vehicle, the soul, which two are
inseparable and are called the monad.
This monad is never individualized;
there is but one monad in the universe,
everywhere present; it is the spiritual
essence energizing in ALL The third as
pect is the mind, whose destiny it is to
unite itself with the monad.
In the beginning of manifestation
spirit, which is force, acted upon prim-
ordial divine substance, its vehicle, and
begins to form by its own inherent
energy the world, or as the bible ex-
presses it. 1.-The spirit moved upon the
face of the waters" So the monad
produces at first the lowest, the mineral
kingdom. From its encasement in the
stone the monad forces life outward
into more delicate forms-into the
vegetable which it constructs. Next,
the monad emerges from the vegetable
and produces the animal. After the
animal experience is complete the
energy reaches up TO man.
1t is the monad that thus WHITES
every part and kingdom of nature,
making all instinct with life and con-
seriousness, one throbbing whole.
Everything in the universe, throughout
all its kingdoms, is conscious, i. e.,
endowed with consciousness of its own
kind and on its own plane of perception.
There is no such thing as dead matter.
So the animal is conscious, but not
selfconscious. Man therefore is endowed
with another power-the mind. The
mind existed from all timss;ait-is the
light that came from above. and is
Our particular work now is to un-
fold the mind, the thinking capacity.
For the term "man" means in the
Turkish language ito think" and the
mind, the thinker in us Is, is the real
man; it is the individual. Being in
possession of this light from above we
have moral responsibility and it is our
duty to subordinate the animal and
passionate nature and to develop the
spiritual, until we reach the ultimate
destiny of man, the conscious union
with the spirit.
1t is known in history that thousands
OF years ago people lived on earth that
had great civilization, even greater
than ours; yes there was never Il time
when great civilization did not exist on
earth. Theosophy claims that seven
races came simultaneously upon earth
hence man did not spring from a single
pair. Adam in the Bible did not NEAR
single man, but humanity. These
seven races were all at a different
point of development, for some mind:
are able to ally themselves with the
monad quickly, others only slowly. Fol
most of us many embodiments are necess
airy until we are able to unite our mind
with the spirit. But knowing that We
have to come into earth-life again anC
again until we learn our oneness witt
the whole, we should strive to reach this
point. For we build our own prison oul
new embodiment by our own thoughts
and actions.
The whole of evolution and reincar.
nation are governed by law, and thu
meaning of this law is that every lif,
depends on and has to work itself on
in accordance with what has been don,
in previous lives, and that the who'll
universe is one unbroken chain of caus
and effect, in physical and still more il
moral ard spiritual realms, thought be
ing the vital and the moulding force
If we have thought of higher things il
our life we will gain mental strength
in the next to dominate the ANNA
nature; and when we fully dominate
our body and our mind comprehends it
oneness with the whole then the journe,
is complete, i. e. the mind, soul an,
spirit are united
But there is no end of evolution, anC
when we have perfectly unfolded tn
consciousness within, when W
will be one with all, then we will ente
a new state, we shall be ready for
higher plane which is far beyond on
conce ption.