, 1903-12-17

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.


the compile, mechanism which ron
stitutes the human body. Theoso.
ply sees under this law Of evolution
not only an evolving form but the
evolving of the inward life. II also
sees this evolution as gradual. slow,
aud never ceasing. II does not stop
plastic forms OF the lower orders of
animal life.
Man has developed under the ac-
ton of two great laws the law of
evolution pressing him steadily IN
ward and upward and. to us, the
more potent law of divine justice, or
cause and effect, which brings to
him. with inevitable exnctness. the
result OF his choice and actions, aud
bv which he learns 10 live. intelli-
gently and in harmony WITH the law
of evolution. This evolution did not
begin on our earth nor will it end
here. Other worlds have been util-
lied before this one and other spheres
than this will follow. MANY speak
of our evolving after death on other
worlds and agree fully with Theoso.
ply in that we grow spiritually af-
ter death of the physical body. The
only difference is that Theusnphy
holds a. essential to II w]-ll.oriered
law that every possible experiences
to any planet is had on tina, planet
before proceeding to another. When
man evolves as far rs h. is abe,
learns ali the lessons in Earrh's
school, h" goes tn other world schools
to learn. Thoo.ophiral books are
full of information AS to mam's past
and his future an,i are easily obtain.
ed. Perhaps the most wonderful
teachings of Th-osophv are those
which speak of the glnri-s that await
man in his upward course. Some
thing of the earlier stages of this
evolution leading towards these final
Of we may use the word il II never
ending scheme) glorics. The heart
may understand what the tongue can
% utter.
That nan is divine even now. and
that he will presently unfold within
himself the protentialitie- Of divinity,
is an idea which appears 20 shock
somr good people, and To h- consid-
cred by them /" savout Of bla-ph-my.
WHY it should b- So Is not EASY to
see for Jesus, Himself. reminds the
Jews around Him of the saving in
their Scriptures, 81 sand W are Gods"
and the doctrine of the d%,.iiic,iion of
man was quite commonly held b, the
Fathers of the Church. But in
these days much OF the earlier and
pnrer doctrine has been forgotten
and misunderstood; and the truth
now seems TO he held III lis iuluess
only by the student of occultism."
sometimes men ask why. if MA
was al the lirs, Il spark of the Divine,
it should he necessary Tor him To go
through all these a-uns of evolution,
involving 80 much sorrow and suffer.
ing, only in order 10 he still Divine
at the end Of it all. But those who
make this objection have not vet
compreh-nded the scheme. That
which came forth from the Divine is
no yet mau not vet v a spark,
for there Was NO developed individ-
ualizatinn in il. 1t WAS simply a
great cloud Of Divine rs4-nce.
though capable of dividing tvrntu
ally into many sparks"
THE difference betw cen IT. coudi
ti0n when issuing forth and when
returning is exactly like that betw.en
a great mass of shining uebulous
matter, and the solar system which is
eventually formed II of it. The
nebula is beautiful. no doubt, but
vague and ~ less: the suns formed
from II by o evolution pour life
and heat aud light upon many worlds
and their inhabitants"
"Or we may take another analogy.
The human body is composed Of
countless millions of tiny PARTICLES.
and some of them are constantly
being thrown off from it. Suppose
that it were possible for each of these
particle to 90 through sonIc kind Of
evolution by means of which it would
in time become u human being. we
should not say that because ii had
been in n certain sense human at
the beginning of that evolution. it
had therefore, not gained anything
when il reached the end. The e.-
sence comes forth as u mere ont
pouring of force, even though it he
Divine force 1t returns in the form
Il " ..l.s "