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DESTINY OF MAN
Lecture Of Miss Walsh ON a
Broad Topic.
MAKES A CLOSE ANALYSIS
Beginning and End-Ouestions and
Replies - Conclusions of the
Gifted Speaker.

Following is a synopsis of the lecture
Man and His Destiny as deliver
ed on last Saturday evening by
Miss Walsh, the theosophic teach
er, to a large audience in Harmony
halD.
Whence come we? Whittier go we?
Why are we here? These are the ques-
tions that present themselves to every
one who reflects upon the world in
which he finds himself so small and
yet so great. They are asked OF every
system of religion and philosophy and
unless such system can give adequate
answer it is of little value. Man must
know himself ere he can know God.
A stream does not rise higher than
it's source, if then man with all his
powers has evolved from the amoeba
or the diatoms merely, no great destiny
can be expected of him and the why
of his being is a sadder problem than
ever Again, if man be considered as
fashioned without cause by diety then
the existence of man seems a cruel
mockery.
1t is impossible for man in his pres
ent undeveloped state to fathom the
mysteries of life; yet, he can under
stand a rational hypothesis, one that
will give him the assurance of con-
quest, and an ideal to work up to-a
birthright and destiny-alsO function
to perform in the world while unfold
ing that destiny
Does theOsophy present such ny
pothesis? We will examine and see.
First, as to our birthright Whence
come we?
We know that our planet is but an
atom in the infinitudes of space, even
our sun holds but lowly rank in the
galaxies Of stars, therefore, in theoso-
phic teaching we are not the all of
things and when we speak of the ruling
Power of this planet it is not the ruling
Power of the infinitudes, through the
same in essence it is not in degree as
the sunbeam is not the sun yet OF like
nature. Moreover, involution and evo-
luton proceed by universal law, the
law of being-hence what is pOstulated
of the planet is true in sense of all
other worlds. Infinite Being out
breathes and suns appear. All that
we see is the pulsing breath of Being
Infinite. But to come to our own
world, to humanity as we know it.
Theosophy teaches that the one all
pervading conscious Life-the Self of
all that which Herbert Spencer calls
the 'UnknoWable" evolved out of and
in itself two conditions or states of
being-one protective, one receptive.
We call these states life-form, spirit
matter, -Mother-God. From
the interblending of these. the primal
Qualities, arose mind or consciousness
holding within itself the Qualities of
spirit-matter and the power of the
unmanifested One. 1t is three in one
end and is called by various titles as
'The Word, " ''The Creator" I'm the
beginning was the Word and the Word
was with God, and the Word was
God. All things was made by Him and
without Him was not anything made
that was made" st. John, Chap. 1.
The Word or Logos working in and
with the Qualities of life-form, or
| spirit-matter builded the world. HUI
| manity as thinking beings are the ex-
preston of the directing power of the
| Word, the Heavenly Man and become
| Ruler, Guider, Creator-the manifes-
| tatiOn Of the Word Rational man
| encased in physical form is synthe-
| sis of all manifestation. One stream
of God-life went forth robing its
radiant energy in vestures of gather
| ing density and with each vesture los
ing more Of its spiritual energy-its
pristine purity becoming complex and
limited through differentiation. but
yet with all its powers asleep though
they are
Humanity stands between the mani
tested and the unmanifested. touch
ing every sphere, from the physical
to the spiritual. A child of God pro
ceeding through his mentality from
the Creative Word, the real true man
the thinker comes from the higher
spheres and has within him the power
and the possibilities of Godhood. "The
Word was with God" from the begin.
ming and man as individualized mind
was with the Word. There is nothing
then that he cannot do by right of this
glorious birth, and this belief is an
excellent basis for progress. Coming
from such lofty source there is nc