The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-08-30

any of you who accept this idea and
incorporate it in your work and
daily living is Theosophist. The
rest of Theosophy follows pas-a-pas
[step by stepl.
Jesus, the Jesus of the New Testa-
ment was a Theosophist. You need
not abandon your Christ to accept this
philosophy. You only need to apply
his teachings more literally. Enlarge
your conception of His meanings,
broaden your thoughts of His life and
follow in His footsteps. Condemn no
man. You know not through what
ne has come to the point you would
censure. His failings, too, may be ages
beyond your successes. Your success
es may be your hinderances, like the
young man who went away from
Jesus "very sorrowfuI," but he went
away. We cannot Judge of failure or
success. In ascending mountain, it
is not all up hill; sometimes it is table
land, sometimes very often, it is de-
scent, valleys intervene which must be
crossed. What looks to you retro
gression, may be simply decline that
is on this path to the summit and it
may be further progression than
yours. Our life lines never lie paral-
lei for any great distance. Our at
mospheres are differently colored.
What is right for you may be wrong
for me. We may not judge another,
we may not even censure, only pity.
We all accept future. A future
presupposes past. This is the next
lesson Theosophy teaches. That ex-
istence extends from the infinite to the
infinite. Has no end and no beginning.
Neither can it be broken. Do not
shrink from this thought but face it
bravely and see its truth. Except a
man be born again he cannot share
eternal life" is literally not compare
lively true. Jesus made no limit to
human evolution as His followers
have. "Be ye perfect as your Father
in heaven is perfect" Perfection is
manifestly an impossibility in one ex-
istence. If we are to go on from
strength to strength" in future life,
what hinders our having advanced to
our present condition from a former
life, and if life forward and behind,
why not lives? In this idea too, you
need broadening. Science teaches you
what Theosophy taught you ages ago,
that time and space are human con-
ceptions, invented by man to assist
him in understanding his relative po-
sition. Oxyn says, "Time is only the
rythm of the worlds history" AS time
vanishes in reference to eternity, so in
contemplation of this universe of uni
verses. Space is not. In truth things
are in fact demOnstrable not what they
seem. The sun rises on our horizon
eight minutes before we see its light.
The stars are not in their places, where
we see them, but we see them where
they were twelve, thirty years ago
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tude only visible through telescope
four thousand years ago. For aught
we know their light may be quenched
these many years. Thus we can COM
prehend the saying, "With Him a
thousand years are as one day." as a
literal truth. What seems to us the
indubitable facts of time and space,
are merely human conceptions belong
ing to an elementary state of being to
which we arrive by the gradual process
of evolution through former exist
ences. Take the magic lantern as an
example. You are all familiar with
its construction. A picture painted on
glass is thrown upon lens which has