The morning call., 1895-01-21
WOMAN IN ANOTHER LIFE.
Then Will She Have an Opportunity
to Get Even.
Mrs. 1. R. Reed Of Portland Tells the
TheOSophistS Of This City Her
Views on the Sexes.

In an entertaining lecture on seWoman"
from a theosophical standpoint, at Red
Mems Hall last night, Mrs. A R. Reed
Of Portland, Oregon, presented the idea
that although woman was the first human
being to taste bondage, the old prejudices
are in the present dying out, sex tyranny
is losing its grip, and the idea Of perfect
equality OF the sexes is beginning to be rec
ognized as stubborn fact in nature, and
the evolution of the sexes viii right all the
wrongs.
Mrs. Reed came to this city upon invita-
ton of the Theosophical Society, before
which body she spoke. She is the wife OF
the president of the Willamette branch of
the society in Oregon, and has been lectur-
ing on theosophv and kindred subjects for
the past two years. She Is speaker OF
good voice and thoughtful expression, i'm
pressive in delivery and pleasing IN the
handling Of her subject.
After reviewing the history of woman
and the laws that have governed her IN her
relations with man in the past ages and re-
cent generations Mrs. Reed continued
with an acknowledgment that she Is now
occupying a more enviable position, with
the prospect that under the theosophlcal
idea she will yet be wholly the equal OF
man.
''The relations OF the sexes" she said,
fare now passing through a transition
periOd-a transformation of woman from
comparative obscurity into active indus
trial and public life. The momentum she
is gaining nav carry her too far for the
general good, but If so it viii be because
man ignored her claims too long. The fear
that the independence OF woman viii
lessen marriage and be the death of the
race must be met with the assertion that
when woman viii no longer be compelled
to sell herself to a husband for board and
clothes then viii marriage be appreciated.
1t will be union Of two souls on a higher
and purer plane Of existence.
''As long as the world exists positive man
and negative woman viii attract each
other. For this blending, constituting the
creative power, there is needed, more than
in any other Office OF life, a careful train
ing. We do not so much need more people
as better people.
ssWhile proper regard is paid to social
refinement, honor and character, the
mingling Of the sexes in the various yoca-
tons of life will have an elementary infiu-
ence. and woman may still retain all the
grace and dignity OF womanhoOd and man
all the strength and chivalry OF his man
hood. Each has distinctive line OF expe-
riences to pass through in earth life, and
herein lies the philosophy of the distinc-
ton between the sexes and the dissimilar-
ity of mental temperament marking them,
not inequality of mentality.
1.-The distinction between the human
characters of the sexes is Just as true as
the law governing the positive and negative
poles of electricity.
According to the doctrines of reincar-
nation as applied TO the sexes, the human
soul is sexless. It has, after an almost in
finite cycle of duality, again become a
unity on its own plane. But the soul must
incarnate in human animal forms. Here
the evolution is in active operation and
must of necessity incaTnate in bodies now
having the negative and again the
positive manifestation of life. The recog-
milton Of the law OF Karma, or the law OF
cause and effect. which compels the further
recognition of the fact OF the necessary re-
incarnation of the human soul under this
law VIII restore the relation of the sexes
TO the pure and holy condition from which
it has been degraded by ignorance.
sit must be recognized that the sexes
NAV be reversed in the next life, and In
many future lives there may be attained a
symmetrical evolution of character. Thus
the law OF Karma ever restores the dis
turbed equilibrium, and by our very att.
tUde toward the opposite sex, be it that OF
man or woman, we are creating character
traits which may have to be sharply cor
reCted by unpleasant experiences in that
opposite sex in our next life.
''The most abused woman of the day Is
but paying the penalty Of her own tyranny
in past life, and the husband who is max
ing life a burden for his wife to-day viii
have his turn next time, If he does not get
il back in this life"