Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-23

| blown out Now, from the time you
began the world as a clam, everything you
haye done good or bad. has let ;d Its traJe .tba
Shakespeare was wrong when he sald @ lhe
| evil that men do lives after them; II ilEeS
with them, and may break out any time
] after having been unheard OF Tor ages. ~ o.
| long ago you got a fancy box and had "
/ filled with grocery candy, ana your 81
| let you stay an extra hour because OL u 'li1 n,I
| expense she thought you had gone 10 on
/ her account. She may never discover your
wicked deception, and you may iofgel dll
about II. But just wait. In some lului :
| incarnation you may be an old hoIse, anu %
| she a heartless executiOner testing an
eleCtroCuting machine; anu she VIII ues
you up for experimental purposes Ia ia
| will be your Karma-yOur expiation OF that
| old trick of a past age. II you are BoOu,
and pure and noble ana p3t up pt,ans dDer anSS
| things, you may become woman, OF solne
| other kind of angel, the next time you are
Everlasting blow out your Nirvana; but
| If you persist in your present Nlckeuhess dS
reporter for Republlcah heNspdpet, y M ou
| may fall lower and lower, at each recurring
| birth until YOU may wind up as european
ruler or the president of an anti-Vlce so
| Ciety. And at every stage, look out lot
vouI Karma. II is likely to break out on
you and put you in quarantine almost any
time, -,, - .bo o,r,,,
DAYS of my career as baby, ana the
violent exercise made me cross-eyed Tor
awhile. To this day., whenever L dlscuss
politics or religion, l get cross-eye9 dS
sure as my opponent gets the best OF the
argument. That's my Karma. j had no
business to become addicted to whoopinS
cough. and l have to take my punishment.
Pre-existence. Fe-inCarnation or transm-
grafton. Nirvana; from the wnoie OF ~,
of H. with Karma ever at your heels
when YOU chance to be thing possessed
of heels; this is Theosophy-outside or eX, n
esoteric theosophist. to get clear INSIDE
and become an adept, there are other
things Thousands of years ago, the great
TQr.1 dnWn a
his legs, and became contemplauNe' SO c1 coh5
terrplative that he has not yet rememDeIS,d
to unite his legs. So, If you wish 10 grad
uate TO become a way-up theosophist, and
speedily reach your blow out ana DIS
sipation-yyour Nirvana.yGar eodn mus ~ treas si
are scarce cross your legs, TX your gaze
upon the last button of your vest, anu
contemplate till you become SO uncon-
scious that medical students might slice you
up without the slightest suspicion on your
part Mere contemplation Will 40 no good;
You must cross your legs as the ancient
Buddha crossed his. (Of course am speak
ing of theosophy as II was peIoIs inc
"S5IeIt egSeyars s' things Shake my confidence in
this doctrine 1t seems odd that our educa-
ton in the art of reaching NlrVana shouIu
have been neglected through an the pas pE,
ages of cur existence. and is impaired only
when we are humans; and that we are not
allowed TO remember what we learaed IN
this life, but in all our re-incarnatons
must start as ignorant as u we had never
lived before While We lard the lean
earth as marketable swine, It may be
doubted whether we ever bestow thought
upon blessed Nirvana, for we don't under-
stand it; vet we are expected to 30 right
on hustling toward the grand climaN,N
we are taking in enough karma 10 lasI US
through two or three eternities. IhIs
doesn't strike me as right. NO matter
whether a soul inhabits an emperor or mas
to put up with accommodations OF PLAIN
caterpillar, that soul has right 10 De
warned when It is in danger OF loading up
q troublesome Karma-
"But how do you know theosophy is
true? Ay, there's the rub. We must trust
the wise Mahatmas who sit cross-leSged IN
the solitudes of India, until we SHAH nave
arranged our business affairs so that We
can spare time to 60 on somewhere alone
for a few years, and learn to sit cross
legged ourselves, and contemplate. Even
then, how are We TO know our 'contem.
plations' are not sheer hallucinatlons!
Where shall I find, this hour, soul once
knew in another body? Where does the
osophy display its facts? 1t may be true;
but where is the proof that 1t is?
''I am no friend to this creed. Early In
this century socialism as Christianity, mad
well nigh made conquest of mankind, when
this dreamy philosophy overspread the
world and socialism vas displaced by mon
asteries and caves where once active re-
formers sought seclusion to dream. About
the time of the reformation, socialism was
again formidable till this mysticism. under
other names, again put 1t to sleep. To-day
socialism is rapidly becoming the social
philosophy of all civilized nations, and es-
pecially of the American people; and now
comes the propaganda of this droWsy doc
trine again to destroy what martyrs to hu-
manity have achieved. l regard this very
theosophy, next to the paralysis OF the
evolutionary philosophy, as the greatest
foe socialism has to-day; for already it
has silenced the tongues and hidden the
pens of some of the ablest of socialism's s
champions, among whom is Anna Bessant."