The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-19
REACHING THE. OBJECTIONABLE

REACHING THE, OBJECTIONABLE
The theosophists OF Hawaii and Of
the mainland are not displaying that
fraternal love, that pure undying
search for wisdom that thirst to reach
the Unknowablei through the paths Of
Enlightenment until Enlightenment
sheds its rays upon the Unknowable,
which resolved itself into Manifesto
ton, and an Embodiment from which
issued a Concentration to finally reach
Power and the Unfathomable, The
Star will not say that this is exactly
correct, but it is as near as miserable
outsider can get towards the creedless
wonders of BlavatskN Olcott, Florence
Maryatt and the mighty ntellects that
soar into the empyrean of the Mahat-
mas .t
As far as one can judge from the
published controversy, some FOUNDER"
or perhaps only a "bounder' has dis
solved the original Aloha branch, and
has left seventeen Theosophists in the
cold, cold world, While he has recog-
nized the claims of a majority Of five
as constituting the only true Aloha
branch in the Territory of Hawaii.
Naturally the majority are up in arms,
and The branch Of perfect love, is any
thing but an abode of peace and bliss,
The sisters dream of pulling hair and
scratching instead of contemplating
Lotos buds while the brethren talk
OF insults, with possible pistols and
coffee for two, with breakfast only for
one, instead of intoning hymns from
Zend Avesta and the Yedas in praise
of countless Avaters.
The Official Notice" is somewhat
tame, however 1t is simply signed
"Secretary-elec Aloha Branch T. s.
Now Kipling's Dana Da, who prepared
"a ,nding" had very much mare
picte rescue signature for besides
his name Dana Da, that great
theosophist added to his sign man
uaI. pentacles, and pentagrams, and
"A crux ansata, and half a dozen
swa5ukas and a few abracacada-
bras enclosed in correlated triangles
and finally a Triple Tau. One really
feels as if one had been defrauded of
so1-e soul stirring mystery and that
local theosophists have not lived up to
their opportunities.
Not only has the community been de-
frauded of the blood curdling sigma
ture. but it has not had it's proper
amount of anathmas, which accord
ing to the aforementioned prophet and
expounder Kipling Sahib, should have
begun "oh scoffer'' and have ended
with a selection of curses from the
Rites of Mizrafm and Memphis. and
the combination Of Jugana to which
an ordinary accommodation of the
middle ages was but an ordinary bill
let doux. .t.....
However, it is all very well to laugh,
but the Theosophlsts have the laugh
on their side somewhat, for during a
course of years one of the religious
bodies in this Territory was split from
stem to stern with dissensions and
neither section could find words strong
enough to characterize the other. There
is quite an extensive literature, which
fortunately has most of it gone into
the waste paper basket in which lay
men and priests, deacons and canons,
deans, rural deans, 'precentors, choir
masters, wears rectOrs, and bishops
expressed their views of one another
and of their personal and religious
opinions in highly seasoned terms. HUI
man nature after ALL remains very hu-
man whether you season it with Chris
tianity Mahometanism or Theosophy.
1t dearly loves a scrap, and will fight
for an opinion in this twentieth CEN
fury as eagerly as it fought for a bone
in the stone age of primitive man. The
Star can hope that the Theosophists
will heal up their breaches, and not
wash their dirty clothes in public, as
other bodies have done. BY the way,
was it not the Theosophists who were
so shocked at the quarrels Of Episco-
palians? rt.,
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