The herald., 1896-08-10
PHILOSOPHICAL CRUSADE
Encouraging Reports Received
From Crusaders
THE WORK IN ENGLAND
The Meetings Largely Attended by All
Classes
Lectures AZ the Local Headquarters In This
City-Two Interesting Talks by
Well Known Speakers

A symposium Of addresses and musi
cal selections, instrumental and vocal
were given at the Los Angeles Theo
sophical headquarters, 525 West Fiftl
street. in Blavatsky hall. The subject 20
the several addresses was: The Theo
sophical Crusade, which was listened L
by large and responsive audience. Th'
speakers said, in part:
1.-THE 18th Of June a handful OF me'
and women left the harbor of New Yor>
city on board the steamer Paris. en- route
for London. England, which place was
selected as the first port upon their jour
ney around the globe. Thus commenced
a movement which is to go down in his
tory as the Theosophical crusade, d
movement with no less purpose than the
moral conquest of humanity. Equipped
with the Hercules club of thorough
knowledge of human nature ana the
scope of its possibility, sympathy and
affection for all beings. and boundless
faith in the final victory of the good the
Theosophical crusade proposes TO es-
tablisl centers of brotherhood All
around the globe and connect them ny
tracks of moral and spiritual lorce'
| Through such a system of soul commun-
ion the various individuals belonging 20
| different nations races and latltuues
will become permeated by the pulsations
! of one single aspiration, one all-emprac-
| ing thought--the solidarity ana one
ness. the brotherhood, of humanity ana
| the possibility of its universal reallzd-
| tion.
IF the adventures experienced by the
i1el ,srIl de far TO pres
| age the future of its activity and success
| the importance of this movement ana the
results to issue from it are simply meal
| culable Already the passengers aboafd
| the Paris had occasion to TESTIFY TO the
enormous force liberate a the several
meetings held by the crusaders upon the
! voyage across the Atlantic. The inter-
est and enthusiasm for the success OF
the movement evinced by the passengers
and crew, and the cheers and applause
following upon each address, are prom
ises of the greatest triumphs for its tu-
ture work.
The numerous reports which have
reached us of the hearty reception the
crusaders received in England are ell
full of encourag cement for the sympl-
thizers and sharers Of this grand move
ment. In Liverpool each meeting mum
bered from 1900 to 1000 attentive listen
ers. and new branches are springing up
spontaneously III lHG W dht VI tiiC SiN-'t
work The leading newspapers of Liver
pool. Bradford. Bristol London, etc,
have published lengthy and encouraging
interviews, which the reporters of these
newspapers had with the several men,
bers Of the crusade.
"One feature of the work of the cru
SADIE is the arrangement of so-callad
brotherhood suppers' in the various
places visited, and to which all the poor
and needy are invited. At the brother
hood supper in Liverpool about 800 peO
pie were fed. After every one got his
physical wants attended to, the message
of brotherhood was given. The one ad-
dress followed the other. until each men,
Der of the crusade. in clear and compre-
hensive terms, had interpreted the fun
damental teachings of Theosophy and
the mission of the Theosophical crusade.
Another object of the crusade is to
visit the various occult schools of Greece,
Egypt and India, and. upon the basis Of
the information arrived a through an
inquiry into the character and methods
of these halls of learning. lay the founda-
ton in this country for school for the
revival of the lost mysteries of antiquity.
toward which purpose the sum of $4,000
was subscribed during the convention in
New York"
MRS. RANDOLPH'S LECTURE.
Mrs. Randolph gave a lecture at the
Theosophcal headquarters, 356 South
Broadway. last evening, on the Theos-
ophy of Tennyson. The lecturer said
that many poets embody in their poems
the doctrine of reincarnation. Take. for
example. Walt Whitman in Leaves of
Grass, Shelly, in The Cloud, Tennyson
in The Two Voices, In Memoriam, and
many others. Selections from Tenny-
son We're given along with brief eX-
plantations of some of the fundamental
principles of Theosophy. In order to be
as explicit as possible, these eXplana-
tions ard selections We're divided into
five topics; first, consciousness in all
matter; second, reincarnation; third
memory of past lives; fourth, Karma;
fifth, the existence of masters.
Beginning with topic number one con-
sciousness in all things, animate and in
animate, Theosophy teaches that there
is no such thing in nature as dead or
inert matter, in all, from the grain of
sand to man himself, is that impelling
force that is forever urging progress.
Suppose for a moment, that the king
doms below man are devoid of this
handspring Of evolution" What would
be the result? There would be no fu-
ture for this part Of natures handiwork;
the pebble would remain a pebble, the
caterpillar would always be a cater
pillar. But nature is an impartial mother:
She uoeS not shower fdNOrS upon a few
of her children while she neglects 9TH
ers. In all her work there is the same
similitude, as the high, so the low, if
man is constantly evolving, so are all
things below man, else were the law of
justice violated and in natures king
dom justice holds full sway. There is
not one law governing humanity and
another and different one ruling all
things below man. The same inexora BILE
law rules all
Second topic, reincarnation-Ma is
dual being, part of him seems to
be heaVen-born. part native of earth,
and between these two forces Of good
and evil, or. as the church has it. be-
tween God and the devil, Waged "A silent
conflict of which man is the arbiter and
controller 1t is for him to say how the
conflict shall end. But these two op
posing forces are so powerful that the
conflict does not end in one short life bur
lasts through many lives until finally.
evil being overcome by good. is no longer
her foe but her ally. Believing this TO
be life's purpose, this transmitting of evil
into good, believing that progress con-
t!nues throughout all eternitity, Theoso-
phists accept the doctrine Of re-incarna-
tion which is, to quote from Walker. "un-
reservedly accepted by the majority of
mankind at the present day." Though
new to some of us, it is truth as old a
the everlasting hills, a truth that sages
have believed, that poets have sung.
Ihe question is often asked Why do
we not remember our past lives In
the dual nature of man there must be
some medium of communication be-
tween the heaven and the earth horn