The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-08
ONCE
ALWAYS ONE
Theosophist Prime
Offers No
Hope.
HOW SOULSCHANGE
THEIR HABITATION
The Lecturer Answers Many Diff
cult Questions and Some
Very Odd Ones.

"a man who is a liar on earth is no
more capable OF telling the truth after
he dies than when his soul inhabited
the fiesh," said Thomas Prime, the WIS.,
ting theosophists, last night, in answer
to question propounded at Arion hall
Mr.. Primes novel answer was given
while discussing question regarding
his ideas of spiritualism. You ask at
seance through the medium. If rein
carnation is true, and often the answer
comes back. No Why is this? 1t is
because the persons asked were those
people on earth who had no great intel
Iigence, and the fact is that they really
don't know"
Mr.. Prime went on to say that were
this question asked in India, where the
development of the higher planes OF
consciousness is carried to the highest
possible state of perfection, the answer
would in all probability be Yes be-
cause they would surely be in a posi-
| ton to know. Both the question and
Mr.. Primes method of answering were
unique, but as usual, the lecturer was
equal to the occasion.
| 1t was question night at Arion hall.
/ anu MT. Sct " Lie dA0
Gus task of answering posers off hand
as they were brought to him written
on small slips of paper. The hour
spent in answering the questions was
| interesting to the audience, and much
food for thought was given them One
| of the first questions answered was the
| following:
| Can reiterated and persistent
thought be conveyed to a far distant
person, no other means of conveyance
being available? The lecturer answered
| in the affirmative, although with the
proviso that all persons could not do
this. Transference of thought was
quite easy to those whose mental planes
were as real to them as the physical
planes were to others. The soul of
thought is the will power. If one is not
In the habit of thinking intensely, but
only of rapidly running over great
many matters, then such a form Of
thought would be very vague. If one
was to think intensely what he wanted
to convey 10 another person, just so In
proportion will the thought go to that
person. Thoughts, like things, go
wherever one sends them. It is not
only dependent upon the man who
thinks them, but it also depends upon
the SensitiveneSS of the person to whom
one sends the thoughts. Like a flash
of lightning person sometimes re-
ceives an answer to a thought and at
IT1DOlSS 1t 10 Inspiration, bul II Is pIOO-
ably the influence of a thought sent out
by some one else.
Another QueStioner wanted to know, |
accepting the doctrine of reincarnation |
az undoubted. if reincarnation did not |
follow in succession the same line of
sexes Mr.. Prime answered in the neg !
alive. The qualities known as courage. |
and endurance, are sometimes better |
acquired in the male sex, while love |
and sentiment are more easily acquired |
In the experiences of the woman. The
soul is neither male nor female, but |
the bodies that inhabit the earth are |
both. Souls which formerly inhabited |
women's bodies go into those of men
and vice versa. 1t is not a case of once
a man always man. The soul gains a !
series of experiences in one sex and |
then in another.
What is sleep? was another question.
The lecturer answered that it was the |
temporary losing of consciousness. The |
physical bodies are capable of certain |
amount of work and the body then re-
quires rest. The soul is never fatigued, |
nor does the mental body become tired. |
The soul never loses consciousness, but |
1t is the physical body which is depriv
ed OF 1t temporarily. When a man |
wakes up he regains his consciousness, |
much as he donS his clothes
Do theosophists believe in spiritual
ism? he was asked Some do and 9TH
creed In theosophy. Any man of any |
creed can join the theosophists and not |
give up his creed. The lecturer said |
theosophists all believed they were sons
OF God, steadily making progress. Spir-
itualism was simply one form of a
mans creed, kind of scientific expert
ment. He thought the ism had done a |
great deal of good. in that it had prov
en- that there is a continuation OF life |
after death, but on the other hand it
had done great deal of harm.
Don't you think it is better for many |
people who have been satisfied with the |
old faiths Of the churches, to be salts
fed with them still and not take up
new ones? This was a poser for the I
lecturer. Mr. Prime thought that If /
there were some points of faith that a
man was not satisfied with that dis
turbed him, such as that he has always
heard that God is a jealous God, and
later hears that God Is love. he would
be fool If he did not try to find out
about II, and a wise man If he did
His answer to query as to what
constituted sin was, "to do what you
know is wrong-that's all; nothing
more"
Speaking of reincarnation and of the
statements by many that while con-
versing with some one they feel that
they have known him somewhere else,
Mr.. Prime said that this was probably
a case of two souls which had had an
introduction In former incarnations