The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-02-19
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TheOsophy no more satisfactorily ex-
plains to the inquiring mind the origin
OF the soul than do our modern physiolo-
glsts. 1t Is assafe to ascribe its sensuOus
beginning to the mysteries surrounding
magno-correlatiOn and possibility Of ex-
tensiye vital subdivision, as to say that
1t originated from Divinity. While the
student accepts the divine source Of life,
he does not necessarily relegate the in
itial inception Of the soul to pre-infnite
birth. He rather recognizes the plan Of
graduated unfoldment, and believes
that life and its characteristics are per-
petuated by mortal transmission. Think
OF matured man or woman-soul taking
possession of or being thurmaturigized,in-
to the carnal body Of an infant, to pass
several years of useless correspondence;
for babies do nOught to shape or unmake
the destiny Of soul.
Would you not sooner look into the
laughing face Of your baby idol, and
think that 1t was all yours, that it would
grow up to partake of your likes and dis
likes, your virtues and gifts, than to be
shocked with the uncertain thought that
perhaps you were but fostering the ami
NAL tabernacle Of possessing viper2
And were theOsophy more real than
theory, on the other hand, might not
many a returned hero fall into hands
that would school him for life Of de-
bauchery and crime?
If the soul is conscious of its previous
existences, it knows its needs and why
does it not make Its physical agent, the
brain, cognizant of these deficiencies,
and guide it Alright? An hereditary pre-
objection for outlawry will endow brain
with propensities which most souls
would not overcome. Here would be
cases where the servant would be stronger
than the master.
What kind Of an astral being is it that
would assume control Of a mortal organ
ization and then lead it out upon track
OF iron, before an advancing train, where
a man in the prime Of life, moment
later, becomes indnitesimal mince meat
for buzzards? Is sorrow, sympathy, love,
and Patriotism, physical or spiritual ex-
preston? II physical, then the animal
/. side Of mans nature is the more beauti-
| full, potent, and admirable.
What discarnate soul or binding back
agency would force an intelligent spirit
back into a body, by heredity, predis-
: posed to loathsome disease, and mental
| arrangement? Or are such cases unten-
anted? Was Alexander Pope without a
: soul? Physical life was to him torture
Q and his body would never have been Sc
: lccted as the residence of an advanced
s free acting soul.
s What beneficial experience would any
soul derive from retenanting the organi-
s zation of cannibal or whatkeen, Yam
g kec brain would be benignly sudserved by
4 the occupancy of an astral shell once be-
: longing to a wild manNf BorneO2
This article is not written to evict any
8 religious orphan from his new found
/: home, nor to ridicule the human mind
n for seeking after newer and better beliefs
n regarding the ethics Of the most profit
: able existence, but to offer him some
/ thing better.
s Reincarnation, in an abridged form is
: a scientific fact. Men and women, I'M
D der fayOring conditions, are impressed,
4 influenced, or actually taken possession
g of and so held obsessed for short whiles,
d every day, as has ever been the case,
: since Eve preceded Adam into the astral
a world. All matter is spiritual, only
): differing, with kind, in varying degrees
@ of refinement. Prof. ROentgen has sue
g ceeded in opening the eyes Of the world
:: to analogous facts, in his recent expert
# ments with electrical radiation.
o GrOsser men are grosser spirits, and
+ are longer earth bound or retarded in
Q their course Of evolution or experience,
Q than those having lives more exalted
Q mortal lives.
Q Here is the doctrine Of exact justice.
/. As You live so shall you fare. Live
8 Alright and you makeiteasy for good dinhu-
|, enceto aid you. wrong and you throw
q open the gates to evil controls, to return
t and work out unsatis6ed passions no
n longer movable upon the spiritual
g plane.
Study the matter by observation and
8 you will become an earnest disciple Of
: Its beautiful precepts. A. B.. W.