The herald., 1896-08-10

rise to brain memory But at death what
! occurs? This messenger returns to its
parent, bearing with 1t counter-mes-
sages. Where, then, is stored the men,
| ory of that particular life as we'll as of
| all other lives? In this parent. the eter-
nal Ego that on being reincarnated
| again sends out ray or messenger,
| which illumnates another and different
| personality. Thus there is no link be-
| tween the brains of successive PERSONAL
tiles except through the higher self. The
! nearer we live to that self the nearer
shall we come to all knowledge of the
| past as we'll as of the future. Even now
| there come to all of us at times glimpses
! of the past that seem like dreams. We
| cannot tell whether we have dreamed
this familiar thing or lived it. But these
| glimpses of the past are from the soul
| memory, something very different. in
deed, from the brain memory just spok
en- of. The latter is of the material, the
former of the spiritual nature of man.
The next topic touched upon, and but
briefly, is Karma, the law of cause and
effect. No effort, however small. and
whether it be for good or evil, can van
ish from the world of causes. This is
the law of the conservation OF forces
and nature cannot alter her unalterable
laws. no. not even in our favor. import
ant as we are in our own eyes. Rein
carnation and Karma are inseparable,
one can scarcely be thought of discon-
nected from the other. If one is weak Of
intellect, sick in body, born of immoral
parents. his environments such as seem
to breed vice, 1t is because in former
lives he set up causes of which these are
the results. We receive what we have
merited. nothing more or less. Believ-
ing this law of Karma, this law of just
ice, life takes on a different aspect 1t
does not seem useless, hope
less, haphazard thing, into which
one is to be thrust, nolens
volens. or "a stage, and men and women
merely players" or worse. puppets. but
it is, rather a great training school,
where one learns after many failures
and much sorrow the difficult lesson of
conquering ones ldwer self.
Fifth topic, reasons for believing in
the existence of beings higher in the
scale of evolution than man. AS all
manifestations of the one life, from the
feeblest expressions of it to the noblest,
are governed by the same law of eter-
nal progress, since all things are mov-
ing upward, does it not follow that ev-
erything in the universe is in a different
stage of development? The animal has
advanced beyond the vegetable. the
vegetable beyond the mineral, and man
beyond all
BLAVATSKY HALL
H. a. Gibson spoke to full mouse at
hall. 525 West Fifth street,
at II a. m. yesterday. his subject being
The Purpose and Power of the Emotions. |
He said, in part: But very little is
known to NOSE regarding that great |
impelling force which urges us forth to |
seek exeprience in life. During the ear
lier days people lived, comparatively |
speaking, simple lives. The epitaph on |
Il tombstone in cemetery In England |
might apply to many: Here lies the |
body of John Mcbride; he was born, got |
married and died. Life has within the |
last fifty years become much more COM |
plicated and a fact in our evolution |
accounts for very much that the mind |
quality is becoming much more active.
The fire of mind sends its heat into the
lower man and intensifies the force of
the emotional nature, and many are
urged on by the strength of passion as
if in a runaway chariot. All parts of
our wonderful composite nature are good
if rightly used and controlled: none
more SO than the desire part of mans
nature. 1t is that which gives zest to
ife, strength to purpose, and develops
that mighty force-will. One deficient
in the emotional side is just that much
ess forceful. Man is a three-fold be-
In rg-body, soul and spirit The soul is
between lower and higher; If
t is attracted towards lower it identi-
but if drawn to the spiritual
side it is strong to use and control the
lower and rise by force of the animal.
This is the natural process that the soul
should control the surging passions, and
by that enormous power ascend to spirit,
where all knowledge is; that is divine
Few in each age are strong enough to
thus use their powers. so men, races
and nations come to full maturity and |
flower, and the fruitage is gathered as
those attaining illumination, and the
balance pass down to ascend the
arc of the circle again under more favor
able circumstances, and another har-
vest may be garnered Of strong, per-
,ected souls.