The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-22
PATH THROUGH
VALE Of DEATH
Annie Besant, President OF
TheoSophiCaI Society, Fore
casts Future of Russia.
TALKS LIKE T0RQUEMADA
PURlFICATION BY FIRE AND
SWORD HER REMEDY.

Bremen, August.-The destiny of Japan
and Russia, and particularly of the Flow
| cry Kingdom, forecast by Mrs. Annie Be
SAINT, world president of the TheosophicalI
society, is recalled at this particular time
with great force. Mrs. Besaut, writer
and lecturer whose intimate knowledge
| of the political questions of the day has
| given her publicity, gave out most in
| teTesting review today from a TheOsOph-
/ zeal standpoint of THE Valley Of the Sh1-
/ dow of Death through which Russia is
being guided She contrasted from new
viewpoint the rulers of Japan and Russia
| giving the occult reasons for the tribula-
| tiOns through which the cars govern
/ ment is passing and the causes leading to
| Japan's victories
! See how strangely Russia. a nation
| with great future before her" says Mrs.
| Besant, lis being guided through the
| frightfui valley of humiliation. The prep
| arahon for that calamitoUs part in the
| drama lies in that which has gone before.
even within the limits of our own lives.
| There was a moment, twenty-five or
| thirty years ago, when a wOndrOuS oppOr-
tunity came in Russia's way. Although
| ill-judged there was a noble impulse I'M
! there was possibility that the act might
! be turned to good purposes for the nation
and raise it higher, instead of leading it
wellnigh to destruction, as it has done.
Noble Impulse Felt.
"And then there came out of many
souls born just then among the mobiles of
! Russia one of the most wonderful things
the world has seen, a flinging of them
selves out of their own rank down among
the poor, ignorant and dOwn-trodden, a
giving of themselves by the lads and girls
of the nobility to the lifting up of the peo-
pie, not by a PARKWAY charity, but by d
| wOndrOus impulse of uttermOst self-sacri-
flee And how was that met? The divine
compassion Of those youths and girls was
met by the Fortress of Peter and Paul.
by the mines and deserts and SHOWS of
Siberia.
Nothing more terrible has been
| wrought by government of any people
within modern times. And terrible the
Nemesis
Driven by despair, their attempts to
uplift in all ge1tleness met with the knout
and the underground dungeon. with star
walton for the mel, with dishOnOr for the
women, what wonder some of them went
mad? What wonder that some of them
at last, after years Of patience, after
cruel sufferings, answered with the BOMB
to the knOut!
This state of affairs was created in the
first place by the bureaucracy ard not by
the victims.
Thousands upon thousands of those
who would have redeemed Russia died
on the scaffOlds were sl2=-hteTed in those
| frightful mines, until at last the patience
! of the gods grew exhausted and the time
governments exist for the helping and
not for the crushing of their peoples
Russia Chose Her Role.
$50 that Russia chose by her past that
terrible role which now she is playing on
the stage of the world.
Against ner all the forces that make
for progress: against her from the astral
world the myriads that she has sent there
before their time, all her martyrs, all her
) victims. are struggling against her.
Hence the record of unexampled defeat.
And at home, revolution, anarchy, assas-
sination and mutiny are threatening her
| government fabric from every side. unCl
| for Russia at the moment there is only
the Valley of the Shadow of Death to oe
: trOdden from end to end ana with pam
at heart, but with steady hands, her an
eelic guardians guide her through the de-
feat and the disaster, willing that theiT
| charge should learn her lessons, whatever
the price she pays,
For in those clearer eyes the nations
| agony for the moment matters little be-
sides the lessons that through the agony
4. | is crushed and the rulers of Russia learn
r their duties to the people she still must
: tread the wine press of the divine wrath
And see how Rusgia has been prepared
: for it, Among all her rulers not On5
: strong man; weakness and uncertainty
7 everywhere; changed policy at every mo-
ment.
Says Gear Is UNIT.
Mark the government of him who
should be the father, but is the tyrant
, of his people, perhaps not a bad man il
! himself but utterly unfit for his post.
1T is part Of the destiny of a nation
, that. when the hour of its doom strikes
nothing save weakness is born into Its
. | governing classes, so that those who
: would not rule Alright may lose the power
I to rule. And on those terrible battlefield'
: of which we have read records in the
: daily press is there anything more pa
: | thetic than the dauntleSs courage of tn.
soldiers and the hopeless incompetency o.
the officers? 1t is not that the soldiers do
: not fight, but that they are led by mel
l who know not how to lead.
"GIance at the other nation in the grea
duel. The emperor of Japan, mighty
soul fit to incaTnate for that nation it,
: own greatness, fit to use such power tina
e in a brief space Of years he might trans
V form the nation, put it into new shape
e evolve in its unknown forces, and at tbs
| same time showed out a personality 81
. wonderful that all the nation look to hin
!, | ss ruler by divine right, from whose sa
= | cred person flow the powers which in th'
: nation are shown forth, every triumph
q reflecting new glory on his personality.
High Praise for Japs.
i And round him gathers one great on,
:, after another for the labor of raising vi
: the nation, until at every point of i'm
4 | portance you see a statesman, a general
2 an admiral. fit to lead people from tri
: umph to triumph.
| "A group OF SIfOHS SOUS - Sulueu u
incarnate there. in order that the nation
/ may fulfill its destiny, for no nation cal
: be great unless at the center there be al
: ideal, and a perfect loyalty and self-de
n vOtiOn.
u ut is no mere lip phrase, but voices
u feeling deep in the heart of the sOldie
: and the general, when they thank thei
| ruler for the victories in the field, ant
e with the eastern devotion say that he il
e the representative of God amongst them
: Mrs Besant. whose home in AdyaT
a India, the headquarters of the IheoSoph
e ical society, of which organization she re
it Gently was elected president, is on a lee
a turing tour of Europe. She will sail from
G Bremen on Sept. for New York to at
tend the annual convention of her societ:
:, to be held in Chicago Sept. Is. She vii
q be accompanied by Mrs. Marie Barnar
# Russak, daughter of the late Judge Bar
+ nard of California, who Eas been associ
"a ated with her in India. In New York the
n will be Joined on Sept 10 by A. P. War
4, rington of Norfolk. Va. writer and Law