, 1902-06-26
PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
WHAT EVOLUTION SHOWS.
Nineteenth Century SURPASSED all Pre-
esding Epoch Of History.
Man Is Divine.

fclput. nt tliidfthtfs ifDUi u rlftit W SBih
itual spark. He returns to his source
self-eonscious. Through matter and
forW he gains knowledge 10y experience.
This is the object of life on earth. This
is what man is here for t, gain knowl-
sdge Though experience. His sins are
mistakes due 10 ignorance. BY coming
into contact with wrong he learns right;
learns the inviulability Of law: learns
that every i~nfraction Of law results in
suffering.
1t is only in a physical body in which
he must incarnate time and time again
until he has learned all that earth can
teach him; learns to discriminate be
tween the false and the true: the real
and the unreal: life and death; knows
the law and works with the law: only
when he has evolved to the point where
he understands himself: the reason for
his being here and has the power to put
the world. the flesh and the devil uuder
his feet-not until ite has reached this
point in evolution will he be ready to
leave the earth permanently.
This is what evolution means the
process Of gradual embodiment Of con
sciouehess through n P"!N,ca' 'oi".
Ana every eteP " ProRress rs ehe''e"
by the removal of veil after veil Of ma.
ter'ai''y 'ha' Mines 'ne inner ''a"' "
spiritual man. the real man. from view.
With the ending Of the old cycle a veil
'hat mao nee oi'uins .he e""' 'e'' i'''"
p"iore its iace' hence IL u''"'ei '""
the ciearer Pefc"P'''"' wv 4'"
hough
a new order oil 'h'h2S III c"ui'pe I'M"
the ~of'o' rms must na'"'a..!' o' AZ
'endeo win great c"ii"s,on' Inc p"r'
ing OUT Oh oi" i"e"'' es'Ao'eh'' '"e'''''
cherished oeiiets' is an "Pe'"''" 'hh'
must ne at'eh"eu WIZ" c'''''' ''"'o"
non, CONSERVATION
Inc tearing oo"h :" 'hese ''heho"
ored stitnt'on strikes 'hc 'h"l'iuua'
NOT YET awake win pai"' grief horror'
i' 10
make place for a larger aud more sub.
s~tantial edifce. The church is rocking.
But it has nothing to fear. Out If the
tomb in which so Ion: has lain the cru
Gifted Jesus will come forth tho living
Christ. In the rc,.ai,s ai ce of religion
all that will be lief, !ef,iud will he the
swaddling clothes OF theology. As with
the church. so with all other institutions.
Evolution the grandest word in our
language; evolution. which within its
short life of little more Than half a cen.
fury has done more to emancipate the
mind OF maj than all else combined:
evolution, AZ taught today, will lose
nothing when il il shown by the light OF
theosophy that it is dealing with but q
small fragment of evolutionary process
of life, when il is made to see that ii has
been dealing with but IA small fragment
OF evolution, just a little are in the
great circle. Evolution has been deal
ing with but one side Of the great aues.
ton the form side,
w,,r svo,,r,ox suows
iheosoph! SHOWS 'i'at e'oiuton Is 'he
spirit lhrough iorh-through matter
'of" AFTER rorni iaiiihg away 10 make
fooui ior d IA more perfect FORM
'or the ever evolving me- Inc iorm is
SIMPLY 'he manifestation Oh me- the
SOUL 'he lie beng the son'' Inc cause
'he '''"yihg fr'nc'p'e u 'ne FORM III
''h ia'ser 'housh'' o'oi"'ion' "o' "h'
me 'heo'ogy, H"ses ho.hi"g' gums every
'h'hg' M Just 81 WIN AL inc chahH-
90 'pht are being wrought III tue minus
ui "'en' iru'" mas ioth'ng 10 rear
ne hhruer II IN STRUCK the stronger IL
10. rake LOT instance eupi.ai aH" iaoor'
""e" IN reaii~e" ar " 'ac' 'ha' "i'
we" are realiS pro'hers- p'"thers he
cause e~inaha'ihs iro" the one source
'"e one iie c'rc"ia'ihg a''ke through AL
even as 'he sap Oh the tree circnia'es
'hrough 'he iiHhos; wheh TINS If under