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

don't count with theosophists; they take
no note of time Once theOsophy has
made up its mind to get poor mortal, 1t
can lay for him till, in due process of re-
incarnation, he finds himself an oyster
and then take him in while his intellect is
not available for defense. So 1 wish IL dis
tinctly understood that If l should turn out
20 be wrong about this thing. am not TO
have what 1 am saying hanging about my
reincarnated person as a Karma, or any
thing of that kind. l reserve a philosOphic
mans right to take il all back. l am hum
gering and thirsting after no trouble with
the Mahatmas. With these precautionary
stipulations agreed upon, 1 have no objec-
tons TO making a few remarks about the
osophy. 1 have read what its emissaries
have to say, and remember it. although
have a good deal of tribulation trying TO
Keep tight mental grip on its hard words.
To convince candid world that am no
impOstor. but that know what / am talk
ing about, let me explain theosophy to
you.
ITO begin with, you think you first got
into this world and tribulatiOn when you
were born as human baby some years
ago. There is where your mistake begins.
You sometimes wish you could have lived
In the old days when the Garden of Eden
was the abode Of innocence and bliss. You
did live then. Adam and Eve were no
spring chickens themselves. They had been
here all the time from away back. The
Garden of Eden engagement was simply
human creatures. 50 when you were
born, that was not the first of your sweet
young life. You are millions of years old
right now Your soul simply crawled out
OF the deceased machinery of something
else or somebody else and found snug
place for itself in the body of baby for
tunately Just then born. This is the first
point theosophy teaches you; that you are
not new and fresh, but an ancient soul
temporarily cavOrting as a young man.
Where did you come from at first. From
the All. You were spread out all over the
uniYerse-spread out thin, like butter on a
sandwich-unth one day you were concen-
trated into concrete soul and set to work.
ing some kind of a biological apparatus
perhaps that of clam. The clam went to
pieces after awhile, and you got job
working the machinery of a mastodOn.
When you wore out his vitality, you ac-
a rooster, and so on, until your soul has
become expert and can operate any kind
of A living apparatus as easily as a world
champion bcyclst can bestride and gyrate
any kind of wheel. Finally your morals
are so degenerated that you become man;
and so here you are. What next? You
have been taught that men die. Not bit
Of It. Theosophy doesn't let you OFF that
easily. Not much. When you leave your
present job as a man, you will have 10 get
another place-preCisely as people do when
change of administration requires a
. transmigratiOn Of statesmen into real es-
tate agents, editors or lawyers. And you
Will have to keep on getting born and going
dead through countless ages, and devoting
your talents to carrying on all kinds of
business. from that Of constructing ant
hills, to the demolition of circus tents when
hoodlums put tobacco into your trunk and
deceive you TO your injury. And you will
Eet-oh. so tired!
Finally you will make up your mind
20 become good; and, having by births
and deaths enough to bankrupt a thousand
family records, purified your weary self
frCm the evil deeds ard evil thoughts of
an your past eNistences, you will be allow
ed tC go back to the All: that Is to be
spread out thin over the universe again;
and quit the everlasting borning business.
That blessed state of being out of II
is called 'Nlrvana. II literally means