Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-01-26
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REORGANIZATION AND SOCIALISM

eQuallZe the position OF all; the unit
and the unsuccessful still remain with
us. There Is a theory which alone
can VIGOROUSLY cope with the ques-
ton and realize the blighted ideals OF
the disappointed. This is reincarna-
ton, says Lady Walburga Paget in
The Nineteenth Century and After
Uondon). The doctrine of reincar.
nation is one of the oldest ideas of
Oriental mysticism and teaches that
the individual is brought to perfec-
ton by successive periods of existence
on the earth. Lady Paget observes
that human beings may be roughly
divided into two classes, the young
er" and the Older" souls: the former
those who have passed through few
incarnations, being born to serve the
latter, who have been often reincar
mated, to rule. Unfortunately each in
this world does not always have the
right place accorded to its qualifca.
tions. To quote:
THE ever-increasing masses of
those who study reincarnation and be.
lieve in it know that every soul, when
it has to reincarnate, asks for, &C.
cepts, or is given the place most adap.
ted to it's mental state and future re.
quirements to bring it to perfection.
Thus young soul which has only
lately evolved into humanity will gen.
orally be placed in position and sur
roundlngs in which it's ignorance, it's
lower instincts, and unbridled passions
can not work the harm they would do
in a high, powerful, and responsible
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into these complex and yet so won.
derfully rational and clearly defined
problems, but all initiates, serious
theosophists, and spritualists, as well
as the many who have intuitions
amounting to recollection of former
lives, know that this is the rule, though
it happens sometimes that young, un.
formed, and inexperienced souls are
placed in positions to which they are
absolutely unequal, and that high and
noble souls, who have in many lives,
through fierce trials, eliminated all
bad instincts, appear in the humblest
situations among the most squalid
surroundings. These latter are souls
that have accepted missions, and they
work by leveling up, by lifting the
young souls that surround them into
the clear atmosphere of duty, content
and harmony"
She proceeds to discuss the point
that 'as we cast our eyes over the
higher social sphere we see that there
are great many souls not fit for their
positions" and rmarks that the con.
sequence OF this is not happiness or
peace. but misery and ruin. This
should teach contentment to those
who are taught by Socialism that all
men have equal rights to an equal
share of the worlds best things. OF
Socialism she remarks:
at cannot become a state of things
because its basis forever shifts. and
it would be the greatest misfortune
to mankind if it could become a state
as 1t would mean return to the early
beginnings of mankind. II
would mean complete stagnation.
paralysis of private enterprise. the
of private charity. ana
not only the leveling of fortunes
Dut also tie sweeping away of every
Thing beautiful, high, and noble:
sordid existence and an absolute ba,
TO advance of any kind"
The doctrine of reincarnation in
stead of teaching men to expect to oh
tam higher lot and greater advant
ages by means Of legislation or VIC
ence' tells them that individual eff