Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-22

theft, unchastity, lying and the
use of intoxicating drinks, but he
had no God, no prayer, no cheer,
only austerities and at last Mir
vana" extinction. Gautama taught
many good morals. Gautama
taught that worm may
become Buddha provided this
high Office is kept in view through
q long succession of births or in
carnations. The next Buddha is
due in about $500 years. Among
the one billion five hundred mil
lions of our race, the chance of
becoming Buddha is infinitely
small. There is a reformed
buddhism that has borrowed
largely from Christianity; of this,
we cannot speak. All the true
light found in these systems and
modern theosophy has been bor-
rowed from those who had the
knowledge of the true God. This
Is the history of the whole
matter. The Romans borrowed
from the Greeks and they had
stolen from the Egyptians and
PhGnicians, while tEcy borrowed
from the Chaldeans and Assyrians
who stole from the Abrahamic
family ell their notions of the
spirituality, eternity and unity of
God, the primitive state Of man,
his fall, sacrifice, priests, affairs
Immortality of the soul, a future
state, eternal judgment and the
ultimate retribution OF all men
according to their works. We
might indeed pursue the same
course in reference to the Persi-
ans, the Egyptians, the Indians,
the ancient Druids, and trace all
the light in them to the same COM
mon origin.
Theosophy comes claiming our
attention as the proper means for
the uplifting of our race and pro-
noting the Observation-Disclosures
of Man" Webster defines it as fol-
lows: Theosophy-Wise in the
Things of God. (Truly high
claim. )-"Any system of philoso-
ply or mysticism which proposes
to attain intercourse with God and
superior spirits, and consequent
superhuman knowledge, by ply
sical processes, as by the theurgic
operations of some ancient Plat
onists, or by the chemical pro-
cesses of the German fire philoso-
pliers; also a direct as distin-
guished from revealed knowledge
of God, supposed to be attained
by extraordinary illumination;
especially, a direct insight into
the processes of the divine mind,
and the interior relations of the
divine nature" This system
teaches numerous incarnations, in
which the sex may be changed.
1t also claims that ancient witch
Draft and "kahunaism" are in
harmony with its teaching.
Magical ceremonies are needed to
enable us to have intercourse with
God or superior spirits. 1t has a
Secret Doctrine" according to
Madame Blavatsky who was re-
puted as clairvoyant. All people
are not prepared to receive its great
truths. How then can it benefit the
massesp Let all these systems be
compared with Christianity. Where
have the great men and women of
the last 400 years been found?
Luther with his Bible changed the
German people to Professionalism.
What other religion or philosophy
has produced such men as Calvin,
Wesley, Gladstone and host of
such men in Europe and Wash
ington, Franklin, Lincoln, a
Garfield in the United States.
These and thousands of men of
the highest order of talent receiv-
ed their inspiration from the
Bible. We need only to compare
England and America, protestant
nations founded on the Bible, with
Rome, Greece, Persia, India,
China and Japan to see
the superiority Of Christianity.
Where are the great men that are
theosophists, where are the schools
and almshouses and hospitals
they have founded and are sup
porting ? Truly "by their fruits
ye shall know them" We cannot
give up the religion that has
blessed the world for all time and
today is incomparably above and
beyond any and every other system
that laws claim To The nffnntinnS nE