The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-06-13
Presents some PROOFS
PROF. A. MARQUES SCIENTIFIC
CORROBORATIONS.
Text of His Essay Upon the Subject
Read Before Local Society-Care-
full Comparisons and Strong Argu-
ment.

This paper by Honolulu scholar is
having a large circulation in Great
Britain, Australia, New Zealand and
the United States. In the form here
| given il was revised by Professor
Marques especially for The Star
On the occasion of the third cele-
bration of the Lotus Anniversary by
the Aloha Branch r.. S. of Honolulu,
(H. ~, the writer was led to believe
that it might prove interesting to re-
view some of the principal scientific
events of the last twelve months,
from the standpoint of the sayings
of Theosophy's great teacher, to
show that outside of the many facts
already admitted by science, every
new discovery tends to corroborate
her assertions.
To this effect, it is first necessary 10
state that the "Secret Doctrine
that wonderful chef doeuvre of H. P.
B., which is the most exhaustive and
trustworthy treatise on Theosophy
L say, teens with hints, almost
amounting to predictions, about what
the future has in store for the world,
in connection with the Tenets to
which the author devoted her life;
and it is easy to watch the fulfil
ment of these hints. She distinctly
stated that her book, her teachings,
which met at first with so much abuse
and ridicule, would not be fully vim
Dictated by events and discoveries be-
fore the first decade of the twentieth
century. Yet already, opposition
and unbelief have gradually subsidized
and every year has brought it's share
of combinations, so that we can even
now see how correct she was. There
is, however, one point to which at
tention is now especially called: eve
are, she said, at the very close of the
first cycle of 5000 years of the pres
ent Aryan Kali-Yuga. and be.
tween this time (between 1888, the
date of her writing, and 1897, the end
of the cycle) there will be a large
rent made in the veil of Nature, and
materialistic Science will receive "a
death blow."-(S. d. I. 612, 621.)
1t is a positive fact that every adj
vance of science is now obtained on
lines traced and anticipated by The
osophy. But judging more partic
ularly from the wonderful scientific
discoveries made within the last
twelve months, and which seem to be
only the forerunners of many Others
far more important still-this special
prophecy of our teacher appears to
be in fair way of it's full realization;
1 refer, for justification, to the con-
slant extension of science in the field
of electricity, through those born
magicians, Edison, Tesla and others,
and especially to the latest astounding
discovery of the so-called Cathode X
Ray, or Rontgen Ray of invisible"
light, which has already brought into
existence new branch of science
photography or Skotography-and
by which we can photograph and
even see with our eyes into the in
terror of things, through apparently
opaque envelopes, see the bones of the
skeleton through the clothes and the
living flesh! The capabilities of this
science are yet undreamed of, al
though surgery and pathology have
already unexpectedly benefited by it,,
for locating diseases and even des-
troying the germs of contagious af
! fections. Yet, however wonderful this
discovery may appear, it only illus
trates the correctness of this asser-
ton of the Secret Doctrine viz: that
las the faculties of humanity are
multiplied, so will the characteristics
of matter be multiplied also" Is. D.
|. 1922, so that Shy the time Nature
fully develops its next characteristic"
of which II. p. B. said prophetically,
in 1888, ''let us call it for the moment
PERMEABILITY" Q. 251) "this new
characteristic will correspond to the
next sense of man." ''let us call it
Normal CLAIRVOYANCE" Qbid.).
And so it is. While nature, or more
correctly speaking, the Dhyan-Cho-
hans who preside over human inven-
tions, graciously allow Professor Len
ard and Professor Rontgen the first
glimpses of a new characteristic of
electrical matter, viz: a power OF
'permeability which carries as CO.
rollary an unknown property of mat
ter, of being permeable"-at the
same time, the corresponding faculty
of humanity is everywhere manifest
ing itself, so that-in the U. S. espec-
ially-one person out of every five or