The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-15
Now in Honolulu
and Agrees to
Lecture.
COMES DIRECT
FROM INDIA
Seeks to Revive the Wisdom OF
the Ancients and to Learn
Their Secrets.

~ OLONEL Ill. q. OLCOII, feNefeu
of Theosophists the world over as
u the Father of Theosophy and
Founder of the Theosophcal 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 Philosophical Society of Ho-
nolulu.
He comes direct from the palatial
headquarters of the society at Adyar,
Madras, India, and is starting upon a,
tour that will 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 rs they might have; they be-
lieved that it was no longer of any
without an appeal also to reason, and
it was their desire to furnish, by scien-
tfic research, indisputable evidence of
the Immortality of the soul.
Mrs. Blavatsky had won renown as
pianist upon the stage and was a re-
markabe 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.
She first met Colonel Olcott while he
was studying spiritualistic phenomena
at the Eddy farm, in Vermont, and to-
gether they founded the Theosophcal
Society at New York in 1875, 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
quarters. They began to branch out
and the growth of the society was
steady. though it met with bitter OPP
position. 1--WE have been prosecuted,
slandered and treated cruelty and with
injustice" says Colonel Olcott. but we
have simply thrived on opposition. We
started with one charter society twen-
ty-five years ago and now we are rep
resented in all parts of the world and
have issued 6O4 charters for branch so
cieties v-
THE broad object of Theosophy,"
said 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
skepticism and materialism, which have
been doing great injury to the cause of
all religions for many years. We seek
,f &c
who have gone far beyond us in the
search after truth, and by learning
their secrets to furnish the religious in
stlncts of man with food. TO live, this
instinct must be fed, and it cannot be
fed on unreasoning faith. Therefore,
we have been studying diligently and
increasingly; we have learned Sanscrit
that we might translate the secrets of
the ancients from the manuscripts
they have left us; we have Investigated
q all kinds of phenomena of occult and
spiritualistic 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
derful progress and our beliefs are of
scientific foundation. Just as great
chemists, inventors, astronomers and
other scientists have worked, so have
we worked, but upon a higher plane.
have n letter which received from Sir
William Crooks, the great chemist, con-
graduating me upon my success and
saying that though working upon a
lower plane, he felt that we were work
ing in the great common cause.-the
search for TRUTH"
Mr.. Olcott is accredited with marvel
Gus powers as n curer of diseases and
ills by the laying on OF hands. When
asked about this the old gentleman said
that 1t was entirely out of his work
but that he had had some remarkable
experiences along that line. He had
studied the principles of this kind of
cure and had knowledge of the way 1t
was done. which he says. is by trans
ference of vitality. One day a man with
paralysis came under his observation
and he experimental upon him with
marked success. Within a few days the
man was entirely cured and ran about
joyously, telling everyone of the mar
Vicious transformation. As result
Colonel olcott says he was beseiged
with cripples and paralyzed men and
women from all directions,
They came in ox-carts. wagons and on
palanquins, day ana night; they ran ar
ter him along the streets and roads;
they flled his house and waylaid him
at his door, giving him no time to rest.
nor 10 eat. He was sent for to attend
patients I'm palaces and mansions and
paupers brought their stricken relatives
10 him for treatment. His success was
unparalleled and he became famous
shrsughout all India. He says that he
san readily understand the situation OF
Peter and Paul as described In the
Bible. Finally he became utterly dis
E,iaied with the sslnshness and incon-