Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-06
TIE COUNTESS wACarMEIsrER.
synopsis OF Her Second Lecture Given
Last Evening.


Last Evening.
Despite the inclement weather
of last evening large number of
people assembled at the Y. M. G.
A.hall to hear the Countess Wacht-
meister's second lecture, entitled
"Man, the Master of his Destiny"
The Countess said she desired to
make few preliminary remarks
in correction of an erroneous idea
which many had respecting Theo-
sophy. One may belong to any
religious sect and still be theo-
sophist, with perfect consistence.
Theosophy is not a religion at all,
but vast philosophy, which is
constantly being studied by many
thousands of people in solving the
problem of human existence and
destiny. Freemasonry is nearest
akin to it. Sectarianism is narrow
mindedness. Witness the 200
sects of Professionalism. Christ
says Love One Another" Theo-
sophy teaches universal brother
hood.
The Theosophical Society was
formed in 1875, in a New York
drawing room by Helena Petrova
Blavatsky. She was a woman
who had developed abnormal
faculties early in life. She went
to India and was earnestly re-
quested to proceed to Thibet to
reach the fountain head of theoso-
phical adeptism. AS hundreds of
miles of her journey was made
through a country never before
penetrated by a white person, she
travelled over that portion of it
concealed under the straw in a
hay cart. On her arrival she i'm
mediately began course of study
lasting three years. She learned
to manipulate certain laws un-
known to science. From Thibet
Nine. Blavatsky went to Egypt
where she continued her studies.
for a time and thence sailed to-
America. Her mission and its
accompanying hardships and an
noyances had been told her. She
met in New York, Col. Alcott,
then a patron of spiritualistic
mediums. With his assistance
the society was formed.
The state of 'adeptship,'" said
the speaker, Consists of far
greater development of the facul-
ties than the ordinary mortal
knows of. Certain senses are
latent in us but as we do not try
they are not developed and we
have, consequently, but a glimmer
of an idea of their presence" But
development goes on constantly
from age to age in accordance
with the laws of evolution. Theo-
sophy teaches of a first cause from
which emanates all things. I'm
agine these divine rays, reaching
to the farthest confines of the uni
verse, causing to evolve from pro-
toplasm, through mineral, vege-
table, animal and human life, the
divine consciousness. We must
control our thoughts; they form
our destiny. If this life is
one of covetousness, in the next
reincarnation it will be that
of a thief. Teach your child
rem to control their minds
and think no evil, and in time it
will become a habit. Our hap
piness here is largely dependent
upon the thoughts Of a previous
era. Take, for example, straight
line and call it harmony. Any
deviation from that line is
transgression and to get back into,
the true course we must suffer.
That is our punishment and the
experience is knowledge
gained. One who trains the mind
here and keeps to the line of pure
and higher thought becomes
genius in the next life. But trans
gression will meet with punish
ment and this is the law of Karma
| Justice. 1t is the law of cause
and effect.