The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-09

The Sabbath bells pealed forth invit-
ing the churchgoers to their pews and
the members of the Salt Lake branch OF
the Theosophical society to their rooms
10 investigate those problems which they
considered would lead them to know man
IN all his weakness and all his grand
eur.
The Lotus circle reviewed the lessons
previously given on solids and primary
colors. a story was told from the voice
Of silence entitled "The Golden Castle"
There are seven portals to this castle
and seven keys to the portals. The first
key is mortal love; the second, harmony
OIL word and deed. the third, ''patience
sweet that naught can ruffle;" the fourth.
InulIerence TO pleasure or pain; the fifth
perseverance; the sixth. the wav tn
heaven or truth; the seventh key unIocks
the. portal which leads to heaven itseIf
from this story was deduced +be fscf
tnat The kingdom of heaven is WITHIN
tHyselI- Duty, first, last and aIwavs'
M Mas emphasized by every child present
following quotations.:
Is always mild, propitious. and bunble
rays not the tyrant, plants no faith in
Nor bears destruction on her chariot
But stooDs to polish succor and redress
ana ogiids her grandeur on the public
Tell Me, Evening Star" was the clos
ing ing song, and the merry group of chill
Gren went home to play and reyeI in the
freedom of childhood's days.
BHAGAVAD-GITA.
President Taylor called the society 10
order at III a. m. The secretary read the
aims and objects of the society and then
6olIoWe ed, a reading from the Bhagavad-
Glta: Fh1S divine discipline, Arjuna, is
not TO be attained by the man who eat
eth more than enough or too little, nor
by him who hath habit of sleeping
much, nor by him who is given to over
watching. The meditation which destroy
eth pain is produced in him who is mod
crate in eating and in recreation. OF
moderate eXertiOn in his actions and reg
ulated IN sleeping and waking When the
man, SO living, centers his heart in the
true self and is exempt from attach
ment to all desires. he is said to have
attained to yoga. When he hath aban-
dOned every desire that ariseth with the
imagination and subdued with the mind
the senses and organs which impel to
action in every direction, being pos
sessed Of patience, he by degrees finds
rest
DIR. BUCKS PAPER.
/ Mr.. J. Lloyd read a paper entitled MA
| terialism and Spiritualism versus Occult
/ ism" which was written by DIR. J. D.
Buck. y synopsis OF this paper is as
/ follows:
| The writer says he alone is account
/ able for the views expressed and that
! they in no way bind the Philosophical
{ society. Every individual, whether a
! member OF the society or not, must re-
/ main free to interpret and express truth
| as he sees it. Only in this way can the
! higher evolution of the Individual and OF
society be secured. Science is method
! of investigation, and is analysis by in
! duction from fact and phenomena, TO
/ law Philosophy is the reverse Of science
/ These two processes therefore are com
! Elementary and supplementary and when
| clearly understood and judiCiOuSly ap-
! piled the result is knowledge.
! Man is an epitOme of this cOSmic whole
and when he has reached perfection, en-
/ dOWed with seven senses fully developed.
/ then will the diaDOn OF nature end full
] in man. The process by which man is to
| arrive at this perfection is three-fOld evO-
/ luton, physical mental and spiritual;
/ and this three-fOld evolution can only
| occur through a continuous involutton
/ from the divine source of the one lie that
/ pervades the universe. This evolution pro-
/ ceeds plane after plane with an inherent
| relation OF law and harmony.
! By materialism is meant the method
! which is so largely in vogue among So
I called scientists whereby all problems IN
| nature, in life or in mind are reduced to
I terms of mass and motion" SUCH an
] attempt if left entirely free from dog
I matism would have in it nothing obJec-
/ tionable- But it is not generally LETT Iree
and hence pernicious results follow which
/ can hardly be fully unprecedented OF suft-
| GENTLY condemned
sPIRITUALIs1I.
By the term Spfritualism is here meant
! that incOherent mass or Phenomena at
] tendant on the seance-rOom in which so
/ called spirits, invisible and disembod1ed,
| are supposed to manifest their presence
| on the material plane, and by various
| appliances and methods communicate
/ with man. Materialism and SplFItualsIn
| are practically working in the same dl-
| rection. On the contrary, true OccultlSM'
| bv recognition of the various planes IN
/ nature. both as to substance and energy
or vibration, not only examines every
| phenomenon in its own plane DuL as
/ Germs the normal relation between an
I planes When the demands OF true sci
/ ence and true philosophy are thus re-
/ garded. exact knowledge is the result
| For convenience, the conscious lie Oh
| man is considered as dlspIayeQ on LOU
| nIanes the physical, the astral or intel
/ IactuaI and the spiritual. The life OF man
| in +he world today is displayed prlncl-
| pallv on the mentO-physlcal plane Inc
/ astral Dlane is beginning TO open, "IllLs
/ tbe bfGher or spiritual plane is opera
/ tive nv feeble rays which penetrate MS
/ grOsser nature. The astral plane may pe
/ taken as middle ground between INC
! physical and spiritual. 1870, -,
| thoughts and acts of man comPle& ny.
[ Pure ideals from above are iillhsleu ~ ~
/ +be very drees of earthly lite. II IS tne
/ realm of shadows, or images OF al tnaC
l has been. is or shall be. Hence ~ -
I LIED the 'tAIirror of Isis" Nan IS IN
I T,e-fect accord with the asural realm III
all its principles and functions. -,
rJ,l7e writer then asks whether lllt,
I manifestations of spiriuualism parIa'kS VI
I the dregs of earth life, or whether ~ 10y
I3artake of the spiritual? He proves .l.ss'
2,oss sctione are based on SelnsnneS9
That even a mothers love wiz 80 - fIo1,
Dosed to be the purest is not Lee Il ~
mis- faint. For could mother IoSe IL, 81
otber;s child as well as her own INC
t-rsica1 body is accredited WIN i've
; Senses. but there is a sixth wnlch Is Is
/ Ginning to develop lie 9tLIIDute9. Ia
wonders which the seeress OF FISvol $500 60
NToITe Fancfher displayed to TINS sens;
1rIIie sense is called clairaud1ence anu
I cIajrvovance It is responsive 10 tne
T+o-ber realms of spirit. II the cIduNOy an
Us lows and sorrows, lOngings ana de-
sf,e- disaDpointmentS and hopes, tliSll
he is looking into the lower strata OF thS s
astral light, where InseI lii0
earthly physical existence
NIEDIUMSHIP UNHEALTHY.
Mediumship, in the ordinary sense and
as usually employed, is both unneatthy
| and undesirable.
tITbeosophists admit the real facts Of
spfritualfsm as readily as splr1tuahstS
themselves, and as squarely do they deny
the interpretations and conclusions
I claimed by most splntuanSlS d. HO"lAs
The theosophist says: Study the real
nature of man as he is here and now
sfudy clairvoyance. hypnotism and both
'hfe" and death Study them pnenon-