Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-03
Editorial Comment
Annie Besant Reincarnation.

With touching confidence Mrs Annie Besant has ad- med her intimate friends that she is reincarnaton of Hypatia of Alexandria, who headed school of philosophy several centuries after the Christian began and ot Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher of the renaissance who product of the sixteenth century It was long wait for of Mrs. Besants vaung ambition to remain perdue but doubtless the eleven hundred years mterven- ing between her maryrdom the hands of fanacal mob her neopatonic soul not Tn completely hibernatng sate perhaps she rnconSciOuSly exchanging trobbng thoughts with the original Leadbeatian pervert whose form of degeneracy may have been less repuSve n that period than his twentieth century reincarnaton exhibits.
 No matter. It IS certain she both Hypatla and Bruno since President PetS-Madame President of the Cleveland Theosopcal Society voucheS for it. Mrs Besant has assured her Ohio adheren that of the strongest proofs of her claims that she the rencarnatOn of the two characters that she has been perSecued throughout her life Of this IS striking corroboration, but far convincing to finite mind her statement that she remembers a-every day ot her existence those characters This important and profoundly interesting since the world knows little about Hypaa the meager given by Socrates of the accomplished Aexandrne being practically the extent of knowledge of that dis tingushed lecturer philosophy and leader of the platonic school n her native city.
 Brilliant Mrs. Besan is 1t must be nlorying to her to revert to her ypaan re1ncarnatOn when, with her fascinating eloquence she all the legal minds pitted against her in the Added this the charm of modesy and beauty according to Socrates which combined with her intellectual gistS her classroom disciples whom she eXered great influence Ugh How 1t must give Annie the creeps to dwell upon that unucy day when the Christian mob tore her from her chariot dragged her to the CaeSarem hen a Christian church) and carved her into fragments with oyster shells, finally burning her, "piecemeal."
 As to Bruno, little more IS known of the life of this kgherrant of philosophy than of his distinguished prede Holding liberal views for the order of St Dom mic to tolerate his association he fled under charges of impiety and became wanderer. His soul in tune with those of the older Greek philosophers and his chief aim the search for unity. To him. the soul of was
 thinking monad standing midway between the divine intel lgence and the world of external things For his teachings his vehement attacks the established religion, Bruno
 cured the enmty of the InquSon, which finally trapped the wandering philosopher carried him to Rome and had him burned at the stake for his heresieS
 1hese then, the two nartyred souls whose exterior frames Annie Besant occupy in her former a pearanceS earth It is only of dae after twenty years of hard study in England effort to recall her past that the truth has been revealed her. With an bon that recognizes limitations she is hobnobbng with Confucius whose time she lived several different characters but they yet only vague forms In another twenty years, doubtless, her Confucan associates will be fully barred the everyday actions of Hypaa and Bruno Just what character she will invest after the present Annie passes and rencarnated speak, heSitaeS to hazard guess As she be heartily tired of the prosecutions which her several reincarnatons have subjected her. let hope that her harassed soul in its next essay will nhabit the body of retiring Quaker woman, having proper aborence for all forms of dpu- tatOn