The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-05
PEOPLE LEAD
CHURCHES
Modern Thought
Has Turned
Tables.
PRIME ANSWERS
SOME QUESTIONS
Theosophist Says Earth is Not
Only Inhabited Planet in
Gods Dominions.

Churches do not today lead the peo-
pie; rather the people lead the church
es."
Theosophist Prime, in these words
last night at Arion hall, summed up
the progress in religious thought of to-
day. The times are out of joint and
men are thinking for themselves Man
today was in the development of high
evolution and was rapidly approaching
the stage of perfect manhood There
was time when the churches led in
thought, but the progress of the world
was such today that the people had
forged ahead until the former had been
forced to the background.
The question was asked, do Theoso-
phists believe in the second coming of
Christi" Mr.. Prime said the inquiry
suggested to him that the questioner
believed in the old saying that the
world would come to naught in 1000
years. But when records had been
found which were written more than
5000 years ago, a very different phase
was put upon this limit of time. The
next root race in the evolution of man,
the sixth race, will be a type of man
far in advance of that of today. The
days of the next evolution will be the
result of the days Of the present. Man
today is a progressive being. One had
but to look at the African barbarians
mr. fn iua
were the advanced types. A higher
type than the Africans could be seen in
many races of the Asiatics. The adj
vanced types of men today had gone
through an elementary stage in evolu-
ton, although not all perhaps through
such low race as the present Afri-
cans.
Another question was, Does theoso-
ply teach that all men will be eventu-
ally saved?" DR.. Prime answered in
the affirmative. That which is life can
never die. There can be changes which
are termed deaths, but God, who is life,
was in every creature, the souls pass
ing on to higher stages of development.
it is that a man who has become a to-
tai abstainer for seven years dreamed
sometimes of drinking and of being a
drunken man. The theosophist explain
ed that a man has three vehicles Of
consciousness, the physical body, the
astral, or the body of desire, and the
mental. When a man has been addict
ed to liquor drinking and comes to the
conclusion that he will drink no more.
it is his will which overcomes the habit,
but he does not lose the desire for it.
The temptation is ever present in the
astral nature. When he is asleep this
desire nature asserts itself, the will
then being dormant, and the man
dreams of the things which were
strongest in his nature when the de-
sire had the upper hand. A man Gull
tfvates the desire for drink and when
he decides to turn over a new leaf the
desire has to be undone. The will pow
er exerts itself over the physical body
and he then has battle to kill the de-
sire.
What can we do to prevent unpleas-
ant and recurring dreams?'' was an
other question. The answer was, think
good thoughts. The lecturer said a man
generally dreamt of those things
which he had thought of during the
busy day. If he would think of some
thing good, clean and wholesome just
before retiring, the dreams would prob
ably be of the better thoughts. AS had
been often said. the reading of a pas
sage from the Bible before retiring
would be wise thing to do.
Can we be sure that the planets
Venus and Mars are peopled with in
babitants like ourselves, and do you
believe we will ever be able to commu-
nicate With them?" was asked.
Mr.. Prime stated that he firmly be-
lieved that all the planets are in vari-
Gus stages of evolution, just as man is.
The conditions for living on them were,
however, vastly different from those on
earth. Jupiter, for instance, is believed
to have seas of molten metal, and that
reason alone was sufficient to his mind
to suggest that the inhabitants on that
planet could not have physical bodies
like ours. I'VE cannot think that this
earth is the only part OF Gods domin-
ions that He makes use Of" said DR..
Prime.