The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-14

"a the Father of TheoSophy and
Founder of the Theosophical So
ciety, is now at the Hawaiian Hotel,
having arrived from India in the Rio
Janeiro on his way to San Francisco.
He will remain in the city until the
! departure of the Coptic, a week hence,
and will lecture under the auspices of
| the Aloha Theosophical Society of Eo-
nolulu.
| He comes direct from the palatial
headquarters of the society at Adyar,
! Madras, India, and is starting upon a
tour that viii take him through all the
principal cities of the United States
and thence down through Mexico and
into South America in the interests of
| the society which he, in company with
| the famous Madame II. P. Blavatsky,
| founded twenty-five years ago for the
purpose of saving mankind from the
great wave of materialism that was
then threatening to sweep away all re-
igion. 1t was the purpose of the found
ers to favor no sect or religion, but to
seek from each and all of them as much
of truth as they might have; they be-
lieved that it was no longer of any
avail to appeal to the faith of men
without an appeal also to reason, and
ltific research, indisputable evidence of
the Immortality of the soul.
Mrs. Blavatsky had won renown as a
pianist upon the stage and was a re-
markable woman personally, being
widely known as having created won
| der and comment wherever she travel
ed by her intellectual powers, her can
| dor of conduct and her varying moods.
Gy.ct TpInnal Olnntt while he
was studying spiritualistic phenomena
| at the Eddy farm, in Vermont, and to-
gether they founded the Theosophical
Society at New York in 1876, drawing
about them many who were interested
in occult and metaphysical lines of
Thought. In 1878 they left New York for
India and there established their head
lquarters. They began to branch out
and the growth of the society was
Isteady, though it met with bitter op-
tposition Eve have been prosecuted,
lslandered and treated cruelty and with
Injustice" says Colonel Olcott, 'but we
lhave simply thrived on opposition. We
tstarted with one charter society TWEEN
lty-five years ago and now we are rep
i PRESENTED in all parts of the world and
lhave issued 604 charters for branch So
| cieties.
| "The broad object of Theosophy,'
lsaid the President Founder, sis to aid
,religion against materialism-not one
religion or another, but the whole of
religion, which is Truth, and to fight
lskepticism and materialism, which have
ibeen doing great injury to the cause OF
all religions for many years. We seek
Ito revive the wisdom of the ancients,
who have gone far beyond us in the
search after truth, and by learning
their secrets to furnish the religious in
stincts of man with food. To live, this
instinct must be fed, and it cannot be
fed on unreasoning faith. Therefore
1--WE have been studying diligently and
increasingly; we have learned Sanscr1t
THAT we might translate the secrets OF
: 1.-THE ancients from the manuscripts
they have left us; we have investigated
all kinds of phenomena of occult ano
ispiritualistic nature, and the secrets OF
mesmerism and hypnotism, cleaning
from them as much of truth as might
be found, and seeking to get beyond
mere materialism. We have made won,
. Iderful progress and our beliefs are Of
! scientific foundation. Just as grea'
chemists, inventors, astronomers ane
i other scientists have worked, so have
r 1--WE worked, but upon higher plane.
q have a letter which I received from Sil
IWilliam Crooks, the great chemist, con
: graduating me upon my success ant
saying that though working upon {
Hover plane, he felt that we were work
ling in the great common cause-th'
: search for truth
Mr. Olcott is accredited with marvel
: Gus powers as curer of diseases ant
ills by the laying on of hands. Whel
> asked about this the old gentleman sait
I that 1t was entirely out of his worl
}. but that he had had some remarkable
= Experiences along that line. He hat
studied the principles of this kind o
cure and had knowledge of the way i
!, was done, which. he says, is by trans
!. ference of vitality. One day a man witt
= paralysis came under his observation
:, and he experimental upon him wit
= marked success. Within few days tn
man was entirely cured and ran abou
joyously, telling everyone Of the mar
ivelous Transformation. AS resul
tColonel Olcott says he was beseige
with cripples and paralyzed men an
= = women from all directions.
They came In ox-carts, wagons and o.