The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-03
THE THEOSOPH|STS TALK
Lectures Given at the Several
Headquarters
THREE DIFFERENT SPEAKERS
Christian Nicholson DISCUSSES tho Sub.
ject Of Karma
At BIavatzkey Hall II. A. Gibson Talks In the
forming and W. A. b. Leader In
tho Evening

Mr.. H. A. Gibson spoke to full house
at Blavatsky hall. No. 525 West Fifth
street, yesterday morning. His subject
was. The Man We See aug The IJusAsa
the idea that man Is SOUL
Man, the last few decades, has thought
intently alopg the line of invention and
commerce, but powers of mind. how
ever grand, ministered mainly to the
body. Even religion teaches man is
principally body. with somewhat
vaEue part called soul, thing he has
to save or lose, something but of yester-
day as regards existence and born with
the body.
Even after death we are told we must
wait for this body atom for atom, and
In and through 1t suffer or enjoy, posi-
bly, enjoy seeing another In his BODY
and personally admire and praise him
throughout never-ending ages. 1t is
no surprise that we look at the body as
all of man, work almost necessarily for
its enjoyment and adornment. 1t Is
said whatever mind continuously con-
templates 1t becomes that for the time
being. We have lived in the Idea OF
FORM the body. with the entire strength
of being, till we have little consciousness
outside Of 1t. The first proposition or
theosophy Is space-is the scene or num-
berless universes; these evolve OUT OIL
subiectively only when the hour strikes
to retire again. Nothing is lost, all is
change of form, ideation. will, sub
stance constantly evolving new forms
and changing those already exlstlnS'
Rehind all this must be the one TO WILL
| to think, in the universe we call IL the
world soul In man it is the real man
| contracting matter through pody win
| its five senses and organs. Paul says
| The whole creation groanetn anu IRA.
| vaileth in pain together until now, MOI
| that it would - unclothed but clotheo
upon with it's house from on high. Tha'
| idea. that prototype. that which Lyt-
| TON in "Zenoni" terms the auSoides OF
other self the self-shining one, TINS i
the tyne to which is building from lir'
to life This is the object for assittiiil IA
ton, this is the divine man "Nich III
spires to hope and eifort.
THE EVENING LECTURE
At the theosophical headquarters, ~
525 West Fifth street, w. a. Is. Lesuu
Iactured on the Evolution of the sou
80 a,,an;np The lecturer said in part
The first thing necessary seems 10
90 define what the word soul means
All hut materialists will tell us that the
ore conposed of soul ana pooy, put q
~ whether the soul has any native pow
orc If its own while in the body tney al
unable to say and chiefly 1or the ioe
con that preachers have not peeil III u. !,
hah;t of explaining what the soul
| IN the contrary they are, Win very nc
>oxcentions. unable to do more ina
noint out the current belief tnat cei
tain course of action Will produce "a
Wation of the soul and ether courses
oction will cause damnation OF ioss
+be soul: and the consequences " ~ =,
..hIind leading of the blind Is tilat u
.varape man or woman mas d 81
ho1v idea. that when he dies ne WIN vi
nover that he has a soul or that ne ms
have had. but has managed 10 lollcrC
, All this vague and Inaccurate taik
: ~ ohurchas causes materiallsm. IL
! Minister or priest is ignorant OF the con
l nosite nature of man, ana neHce ~
not the poWer to attract ana hold u
n,inds of any but those who are prone
| dogma and ritual. 1..-o
l. The man of today thinks to hlmse
e What is all this talk about soul an
e wavp What does it amount to? IL IN
: viii tell me what the soul is ana Wie
r - comes from and how to verify /
= natter then 1 will listen; If not wei
: worldly matters are more deilhlte,
e ottend to them and let the other sta
over for awhile. :,
Now. theosophy is here to tell US j
7. what the soul is, what may or may 7
happen to it, and to put this matter
tore us in q logical, scientific matte