, 1902-04-24
T
sEIE1sHNEss THF GREAT srsl.
Loves Glory and Not Loves Gore Re-
deems the World selfshness Means
separateness From the Source of Life.

Separateness From the Source Of Life.
A meeting of the Philosophical society
in Butte City, Mont. recently, drew out
IA large and interested audience. Mrs.
Squiers, the speaker, opened the meet.
ing by reading the three objects Of the
society. First. to form Il nucleus of the
universal brotherhood of humanity with
out distinction of race. creed. sex, caste
or color; second, to encourage the study
of comparative religion, philosophy. and
science: third to investigate unexplained
laws Of nature and the powers latent in
man.
THE Greatest Sin in the World" the
subject of the evening. was declared to
be selfishness. "Selfishness,' said Mrs.
Squiers, means separateness-it is the
little self separating itself not only from
God. its source, but from everything
else which lives: and this is the cause
of all inhUmony, all misery. yea, Of ev-
cry curse which broods over humanity.
The oriental philosophers always
taught this. The ~theosophist says. cast
out the little self. for this is the oh
struction TO the light within. When
Jesus said to the Jews. 'Yc are from be
meath; | am from above: We are of
this world: | am not Of this world he
referred TO precisely the same thing:
that is, the man of sense. living in the
external, Judging from appearances, is
not the true man at all. This is the
egotistical man in whom reigns pride,
envy, jealousy, malice-the man who
loves and hates according TO whether or
not his likes or dislikes nave been graf
flied. This is the man who is ever
working for self; no would corral the
wealth Of the world and compel his fel-
low men to starve; who is ever struggl-
ing to magnify himself at the expense
Of others; the man who believes that his
intiuitesimal life is shut up within the
little self and that little self is a sort OF
a God.
1t is the law of separateness that has
brought sin and sickness and suffering
and death into the world. But the 4
which Jesus speaks OF, that is from
above, this is the spiritual man, related
to its source as the sunbeam to the sun:
and every other life il related to the
same cause. Herein We find unity, har-
mony, peace, rest. %he spiritual man,
the true man, is the real mamie is one
with God and can say as did jesus, i
and my father are one, and all men are
brethren.
Think of the strife and hatred which
exists in the world today; think how
man is pitted against man: the employ
ed against the employer; labor against
capital; brother against brother. This
is all the result of s%elfishucss. Think
now this is fostered from our infancy in
the very institutions claiming to repre-
sent the loving Jesus who taught from
the beginning to END compassion and
the brotherhood of man, In our schools
think of the Inducements held out to
eclipse the other; think right here in
this town of Butte of boys abusing the
poor Chinaman. as l am told they do.
Only the other day a boy put out Il
Chinaman's eye ard laughed about it
But u few days ago | noticed n well
dressed boy stoning a little colorcd boy
and calling him 'nigger. \ Gentle
oriental patted the child of II wealthy
mother on the head and the mother said
Come away from that creature. the
child striking back at the oriental.
Think of the way that the animals are
. trautal tho moor Inrsn .,n,l yh, .1a..
bruised and beaten. What does all this
And yet we are followers of Jesus and