The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-18
AT FOSTER HALL
Anniversary Celebration
of the Aloha Branch.
Lecture and Paper on Tenets Of
heosophy-MuSic Analysed.
Brotherhood of Man.

Aloha Branch, TheOsophical Society.
celebrated the twenty-third anniver-
sary of the foundation Of the society
at Foster Hall last evening. About
one hundred OF the members and their
friends were present. The program
was most interesting and instructive
Music was furnished by an instru-
mental quartette, consisting of Messrs.
Desky, Rosen, Marques and Ehrman.
Introductory remarks were made by
Mr.. w. r. Sims.
Dr. Marques lectured briefly on the
mysteries of sound and music. This
was listened TO attentively by those
present The doctor says that while
asserting that all know about music,
people really know, but very little of
its occult aspect. Science sees in mu
sic simply vibration. Theosophy con-
meets it also with form. light and
color. Recent studies. he says, have
established the power of music as a
form builder Photographs have been
taken of the various forms of flowers.
submarine vegetation, snakes and 9TH
er figures directly produced by the va
rious notes of the voice.
DR.. Marques is in direct correspond
ence with a scientist in New York
City, Dr. J. Mount BIGGER, who recent
ly sent several original photographs of
voice forms which were exhibited. Dr.
Marques contends that music not only
builds but also destroys as Biblical
illustrations and scientific experiments
show. He says that the Cinnamon at
the beginning of New Year make
hideOus noises TO draw the bad vibra-
lions of the incoming year. while civil
lied people show their ignorance of the
mysteries of vibration by manifesting
their joy at a happy event by dis
cordant sounds which destroy the deli
cate sound forms. The lecturer then
! explained the various powers OF the
human voice, which is able to curse or
| bless, to produce concord or discord
hence the science OF what is called in
cantation, the praying TO death, of the
old Hawaiians. He then passed TO the
power OF words and names, and finally
gave interesting details on the con-
nection of sounds with light, telling
how notes played by vibrating instru-
ments. produced different colors, as
also do vibrating letters of the alpha
! bet.
Mrs. Musick read a paper. the sub
| ject of which was: Away with the
! Shams" She says that great deal of
the best thought of today takes on a
gloomy cast, because the most
thoughtful reformers fully comprehend
| the great wrongs that Cypress the ma
| jority of the people of the world
Mankind has waited hundreds of years
| for the churches to settle these great
| questions. but as strong in influence
and power as they have been. very lit
| tie has been done by them in the way
| of promoting a feeling of Christian
brotherhood. which seems to be the
keynote of this mighty question. She
says that there are very few reformers
among church members, for as a rule.
when a man becomes a reformer. he
soon ceases to be a church member.
Lovers of classical literature We're
rounded up in very amusing style. She
says that in the foremost educational
centers of the world. there is a sur
prisingly small demand when compar-
ed with the fervent admiration with
which cultivated people profess TO re-
gard it.
Following was the program:
| Instrumental Quartette Over
ture' OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. De Call
Messrs. Desky. Rosen, Marques and
Ehrman.
introductory Remarks .....
w. r. Sims.
SOng-"Nailey' .............. GOunOd
Mr.. Preston.
Lecture Mysteries Of Sound and
Music -. ....................
\. Marques.
Instrumental Trova-
tore Observation-Disclosures. Verdi
Paper-"Away with the Shams".
Mrs. Mesick.
Waiting ...... Willard
Miss Egan.
Paper on karma NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
\. Sharpe.
Instrumental Trio Barcarolle''
... ........ TalamC
Reading Future OF the The
osophical Society H. p. BIS Key
Mr. w. ]. Cranwell.
Instrumental Quartette-'Au Re
voir .............. II, Kennedy
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