The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-22

Their religion Of more properly apsak-
ing. philosophy, . What = know 10 -
today = escoteric Buddhism, although
the philosophy ants-datsd Buddha
many thousands 81 years.
Esoteric. or onter forms Of Buddhism
has split up and divided into hundreds
Of different creeds and superstitlons.
The e~soteric, however, remains un-
changed, its seat being in Tibbets, and
in its keeping are the records IN Sans
krit Of the evolution Of man since fret
his advent upon earth.
The School OF Adopts Of Tbbets are
today, and have been for thousands Of
years performing the same so-callsd
miracles said to haye bsen performed by
Christ.
Estoteric Buddhism holds that there
q miracle, that the so-called phenomena
are performed through tho operations
Of higher spiritual laws not within tho
understanding Of the ordinary man. A
knowledge Of such laws, like an educa.
ton, comes only through effort and
self.deniai.
The Adopts OF Tibbets, like Christ
and S%chlatter, devote their lies to the
good: Of their fellowman without reward.
For nearly 1000 years the church
has never brought man fase to face With
the so-called dead, and Why? Because
they are not preaching and teaching -
Christ taught.
It was tho priests and doctors that
attempted to destroy Christ, and II
Schlatter is suppressed, their hands
will do the deed.
Strip such phenomena from the new
testament. and what have you LETT to
challenge belief or q creed?
Inform the average man that. you
have communed with the spiritual world
for thirty years, and that during the
past summer you have at various times
and places seen and talked with upwards
300 m~aterialized spirits, and be will re-
ply. "Oh. you were hypnotized," but
at the same time he will inform you
that he believes that Moses and Elias
appeared TO Christ, Peter, James and
John.
Esotoric Buddhism holds that God
is an intelligence that permeates all
matters, and particularly manifested az
the higher principle in man, known as
atma.
That man obtains power over matter
only as he advances spiritually,
through self-denial and cultivation OF
thought and will.
Christ taught the rudiments or ele-
mentary forms Of spirituality to the
ignorant multitude because he knew
they could not understand or appreci
ate It's higher phase any more than a
fish could be made to understand the
planes OF mans existence.
Science will never reveal spiritual
truths because the scientists analyze
the dogs tail to find out why it wags.
The church succeeds no better in sat,s-
flying the cravings Of the advanced
thinker because it teaches only the
rudlments Of spirituality. and along
with it many in%congruities and ab-
surdities revolving to reason, such as
immaculate conception and the fall aud
re1emDtiOn Of man.
Christ referred to himself only as the
''son Of man." rather than the son Of
God.
Esoterlc Buddhism, theosophy and
spiritualism are advancing with rapid
strides because it explains phenomena
from q rational standpoint; teaches
there 10 no death, and proves it. and al
so gives . philosophy that appeals to
every phase of mans nature.
The ignorant pirate about hypnotism
because they imagine it sounds learned.
They should first 60 to the oldest philo-
sophy on earth, j. e., esoteric Buddhism,
out OF which grew all religions and all
creeds, and there learn the higher truths
OF spirituality as we'll as hvpno tfsm.
e. D. TITUS.
Samuel Davis. of AnteIOne creek. died