The herald., 1896-07-20

that went astray;
Foots1re S, and faint with hunger we heard
And 10 we came at nightfall bringing them
safely home.
The Theosophists
H. A. Gibson gave lecture at Bla-
vatsky hall, 525 West Fifth street, at
IL a. m. yesterday to a full house. His
subject was. Mankind Must Be Liber-
ated by Man. He said, in part:
The most superficial observer, in look
| Ing over the sea of human life, must
come to the conclusion that nearly every
man Is bound and in a prison house.
want. disease. ignorance. lust and fear
hold so very many. There is reminis-
| cence In each, an echo Of
| distant past - by Jesus called the "Fa-
theirs house"-when men lived in bliss
full peace and harmony. The Christian
hopes to suddenly regain that state at
| death. In order that man might have
experience and know his powers he
has been allowed to leave his state Of
innocence and fill his desires. BY the
creative power Of will and ideation, man
! forms his environment. Man has gone
his own selfish way until he has broken
law upon law, till he now stands amid
| ruins and calls for some power outside
himself to extricate him. This Is a
school of experience, and its end Is to
make us wise by self effort. If man were
| to awake to the knowledge Of his possi-
bilities and know that his destiny is
| in his own hands and his life ia governed
by law, we would begin to awake and
| free ourselves from the many construct
| ing influences.
| Ignorance and selfishness are the tap
roots of all our suffering and hold US
| firmly. Man will do little good work
from fear but to consciously develop
1 I, 10 tn ha dolfOht The
osophy asserts within man the possi-
bility of infinite perfection and points
| out the path to pursue. There Is no
| purifier like the purifier Of spiritual
knowledge. H. p. Blavatsky told her
pupils to hold high the torch of the
| liberty Of the soul of truth, that all
men may see and know. Mankind is a
unit not in sentiment, but in fact and
| injury or ignorance of one is the con-
| Germ of all We are one and must rise
together, each being helpful to the
| other.
SCIENCE INDICATING
w. C. B. Randolph spoke at the The
osophical headquarters, 1856 South Broad
way, last evening. He said, in part:
Theosophy does not ask of anyone
blind credulity towards its teachings.
but simply impartial inquiry, fair and
unbiased study into the occult wisdom,
with pure, honest and alert mind.
Unreasoning denial shows condition of
mind unfavorable to reception OF any
class of knowledge scientific as wei,
| as religious. Hard study is essential
| to its proper understanding. and thus
| 1t may be seen how presumptuous 1t Is
| for one who has hastily read a few
pamphlets to pass judgment on the
| teachings. We approach the subject.
Theosophy and Science, with few ex-
amples Of the discoveries OF science.
within the last year.
Untold centuries back, in the night
| time of history, the most marvellous Sc
| crets of nature were taught by the
wise ones who were found morally wor-
| thy to receive the sacred truths. These
| truths were not cast before swinish ig-
| norance, superstition and prejudice, for
| the very good reason that they would be
i either misunderstood or in our selfish
| condition misapplied to the lasting det-
| riment of the race. The discoveries Of
| materialistic science toady are touching
| the fringe Of the curtain yelling us from
the wonderful unseen world, which cur
| tain Is our own ignorance, doubts and
| fears.
Madame Blavatsky's greatest work.
The Secret Doctrine, was penned about
| ten years ago. In the first volume are
| found these words: I'VE are at the
close of the first cycle of 5000 years Of
the Kali Yuga (black age), and before
the end Of the century there will be a rent
| in the veil of nature and materialistic
science will receive its death blow"
1t Is fact we'll known by theosophists
that all discoveries Of science are OBJ
tanned by lines traced out by ancient
| philosophy In the Secret Doctrine it
is said that matter has properties or
characteristics not now known to mod
ern science. A state of matter called
''permability" is described. How close
to that which is there taught does the
discoveries of Prof. Roentgen bring us
1t is now a matter of experimental
knowledge that we may look through
Opaque bodies, seeing the skeleton of a
living being behind his covering of
flesh. So matter is "permeable." The
osophy teaches the co-existence with
physical matter of another and inter-
penetrating matter, usually called the
astral light" How appropriate the
word light" We would not use the
word ray" in the sense it is used, cou-
pied with "X,' for the astral light is
permanent and all pervading state
of matter, in which all physical objects
have their counterpart. 1t Is the nature
of this state of matter to be radiant
Prof. Roentgen has indeed made Won
derful discovery, of the full
scope of which. however, probably
he himself has only the faint
l.
corresponding to every State of matter
| So if there is 'permeable" matter. so
will there be new faculties of mind de-
| veloped to enable us to consciously
'permeate" if. The growing number
of people coming into the pos
session of clairvoyant vision is
| proof of this. The soul essence
| is all-pervading in it's powers, and as
| it becomes active on the physical plane
| so do men show forth more and more
| wonderfully in clairvoyance, telepathy,
| hypnotism, etc.
The discoveries Of astronomy agree
| with that which is foretold in the Sc
| cret Doctrine. The recent observations
| of the planet Mars made by such Amer
| lean astronomers as Percival, Lowell,
| Pickering and Douglas, recently report
| ing to the French society, say that Mars
| has no seas, but whose luxuriant veg
| citation, formerly supposed to be seas.
| is sustained by water from the polar
SHOWS. distributed through a vast sys-
| tenn of geometrically disposed canals,
| 1888 of which have been photographed
| together with forty-fve immense round
artificial lakes. Some of these lakes
| have been known to duplicate them
selves in summer, showing that provis-
| ions have been made to conserve the
| overflow. Madame Blavatsky said years
ago that Mars was older than the earth