New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-25
ERA GLORY
No More Divorces Then, Says.
Mrs. Annie Besant.
DUTY TO TAKE P ACE OF RIGHT

DUTY TO TAKE .PLAC E OF RIGHT
Family Ties Will BE Stronger and
Religion More Rational and Toler-
ant, Declares Theosophist Chief.
woman Not to Be suffragette."
Surrounded by followers and stu
dents in her apartments in New York
hotel, Mrs. Annie Besant. chief priest
ess Of the theosophists, who recently
arrived in the metropolis from India,
discussed the new civilization she fore
sees close at hand. The day was
gloomy and rainy without.
Through this misty rain, she said.
1--WE cannot see as far or as clearly as
we can when the air is not reeking
with moisture. refer, of course, to
seeing with the physical eye. The third
eye, about which / have spoken since
have been here (New York; this time,
penetrates all mists. Every one of the
few really great leaders Of mankind
since time began has possessed this
third eye. 1t was by means of this
they were able to see through the ages
and back across the cycles of the past
In the coming era that lost sense
will be restored to everybody. Then
the spiritual age will be ushered in.
Until then we may expect to make no
progress. We have progressed as far
materially as it is possible to go. The
change is bound to come or the race
will die of its own ineficiency.
Airships In the Past.
''The people Of India have more near
ly preserved the full use Of the third
eye than any other people. have
been living among them for years, and
nothing in their civilization has star
tied me more than this Their authen-
tic history comes down in an unbroken
line reaching back to ages that make
our civilization seem mere upstart.
They know that before our ancestors
had even come upon the worlds stage
at all the air. was being Travelled by
their forbears.
But even without their aid had
learned through the third eye that the
airship, as we call it, was in common
use in the past and in many essentials
a better age. The airship then in use
was lifted from the earth by pro-
pulsive force, as seen through occult
ism, and sailed the air as serenely as
a stanch craft sails summer sea-
Mrs. Besant was asked for fuller de-
tails of the new civilization than she
has vet outlined.
Primarily" she said, spirit will be
the dominating characteristic, just as
intellect is the dominating characteris-
tic Of this civilization. In all ages we
lind in the superior man something be-
yond the strictly intellectual. This
was illustrated in the Christ.
Divorce Will Disappear.
''It is that quality that will mark
the new civilization. Men will be more
nearly equal than now. do not mean
this in the socialistic sense. Nature
is not socialistic. The majority never
rules. 1t is the minority always that
rules. 1t is the aristocrat that leads,
not the plebeian. So necessarily there
will be distinctions between men in the
new civilization. AS | see it there
will be no divorce in the coming dis
pensation. This civilization we are
now living in brought in divorce. Di-
vorce will disappear just as the in
Vulnerable other shortcomings Of this
era will vanish. The sequences will
be more clearly defined. AS we have
developed up to this era we have had
periods or stages of passion, emotion
and intellect. The next in the line Of
sequence will be spiritual. In the
United States, where there is won
derful mixture Of racial bloods, the
entrance into the new civilization
ought to be easier than among any
other people. Duty will take the place
of right in the new era. By right I
mean the assertion of Individual claim.
Duty merely is the recognition of your
neighbours claim
"But would not this tend to destroy
what is regarded as the cornerstone OF
our civilization, the family unit ~
Stronger Family Ties.
Not at ALL" replied Mrs. Besant.
3.The family unit will be maintained in
the new civilization without the adj
ventitious aids of laws and conven-
tons. The sense of duty will make di-
vorce foreign to desire-as foreign as
fire to water. The duty of the fam
lily to the state will be developed so
plainly that written laws will not be
necessary. Strength will be subject
always to service. Every child will
make an equal appeal to the adult, and
still the family ties will be stronger
than they are now
"And religion 2"
There will always be need of reli-
gion, but it will be more rational, more
tolerant and will not impose dogmas.
Religion will cease being dogmatic and
become mystical