The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13

Inc Lotus circle had another interest
ing meeting yesterday and the child
rem listened intently to the story of
Bubbles of Breath" which illustrated
the fact that spirit is the reality in
this universe and never dies. When il
leaves the body it simply returns to
the source from which it emanated.
When necessary the spirit gives new
force to body as new breath gives
form to soap bubble and once more
launches it proudly on its course. 1.-THE
law is that all things, as they come
out of the great breath. shall go 1D
ward; shall improve"
At IL o'clock the society met and first
listened to an extract from the Bhaga-
vad Glta. When a man hath aban-
doned every desire that ariseth from
the imagination and subdued with the
mind the senses and organs which
1mpel to action in every direction, being
possessed of patience, he by degrees
flnds rest; and having fixed his mind
at rest in the true self, he should
think of nothing else. He who is thus
devoted and free from sin obtaireth
without hindrance the highest bliss
union with the supreme spirit He who
seeth me in all things and all things
in me looseneth not his hold on me
and I forsake him not
President A. V. Taylor then read
The Vow elf Poverty and explained
the condensed ideas so lucidly that
everyone present went away with
GEAR understanding of the subject.
He prefaced his reading by these re-
marks:
''Theosophy has many sides. Be
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ties, it furnishes a study whose foun-
dation rests on firm purpose. Its ulti-
mate object is the progress by which
man unites himself with the universe
or with God. 1t cause man to identify
himself with nature. This paper deals
with the inner or esoteric side of this
philosophy. AS Emerson expressed it.
it is merely going into our closets, as
it were. When first the disciple is
recognized, it is because his heart is
vowed to poverty. This alone corrsti-
tutes his discipleship The word disci-
pie is used in the sense of a student
or one who has been initiated There
is no outward form of initiation into
the mystic rites, but it depends upon
the individual process. The churches
give expression to this idea by saying
Christ has been received. When the
spirit within has reached a lofty plane
then do We belong to the devoted
band Of disciples.
THE mystic recognition is not had
upon outward planes. Persons do not
bestow nor receive it. The heart
evolves it and the law accepts it. When
the VOW is evolved, a bloom
spreads over the sphere; the
heart has put forth its vital sap, soon
to burgeon into deeds which are it's
blossoms. This bloom is seen upon in
terror planes where the cloud of ever
living witnesses hail the first promise
Of mans redemption. By this new
vesture of the soul the returning prodi-
gal is seen while he is yet far from his
fathers house. A toilsome path is
still before him. but his face is turned
towards his only home. Man has no
abiding home in nature, for there he
wanders desolate, in the intimate and
dreary companionship of his personal
self-consciousness, which is but the
dry husk of life.
When the struggle is for the pur
pose of leading a higher and better
life we are in measure helped or
guided so that the right path is fol-
lowed. When the soul strives to 90