New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-03
ANNIE BESANT TALKS
SOUL-STUFF HER THEME.
DeUOtees of Philosophical Cult
Gather 10 Hear Their Leader.


An Cambridge and the Rack Bay itself. it would
appear. sent up their finest 20 the gathering in the
Carnegie Hall music chamber last night Such I'M
told quantities OF matrony and maidenly gray hair
-prematurely gray Il must have been. for the most
part-such rampant masculine matches. such varia-
lions the themes OF manly shirt collar and re-
formed womanly headdress surely could not be ex-
pected 10 venture more than five minutes from the
TepOse OF Beacon street, or. at the fuTthest, not
beyond Harvard Square They were the Theoso-
phists who had turned out for the first illumination
OF their high priestess Mrs. Annie Besant "A B. :"
she win be known after she passes from the
scene Of her earthly labors
But Boston has hardly turned out such a figure
OF a woman she is, and not Emerson nor Henry
James ever CLEANED the earth so bare OF thought
and myth 20 make a philosophy. She looked like
bishop she faced her hearers in a loose gown
that swept about her shoulders and down 10 her
feet in broad band Of bright white silk, the very
copy OF a stole. Her pure white hair. cut like a
mans, Was Tumpled up almost in peak on her
head. as IL she had just taken of her mitre. Her
fare had the square, solid, vigorous cast Of the real
Briton and her voice strong and decided
many a good churchman's. Beside her on the table
stood seven huge green buds. pink al the tips. on
bare stems They were the sacred lotus flowers Of
the NILE
Aeroplanes and vegetarianism march hand In
hand through her doctrine with much about
Buddha and social unrest. each filling its place
cheerfully and without josting its neighbors. She
ilumined history and pathology handiy the
ology and spirit rapping, and took ton Of biology
ecclesiastical history and astrology by the wayside
THE wRIGHTs HAVE NOTHING NEW.
The Auanteans." she said were OF the fourth
root race: far in advance Of US Of the fifth
root race were far in advance Of us, Of the fifth
science and practical accomplishment. They had
conquered the mir and had ships which could fly
with ease. carrying men and chemicals for war or
peace In our times the Theosophist sees the spec
tacle OF the fifth SUFFRAGE of the fifth root race APP
preaching its zenith and he looks for signs Of the
coming OF the SUFFRAGE, the sixth. which shan
follow. The leading must always be in the
minority. our own forms but small part Of the
worlds people. The japanese and Chinese are OF
the fourth SUFFRAGE Of the fifth root race, and
millions Of them stin survive. The negro tribes
are almost pure third SUFFRAGE.
''Our higher duty Is toward these children OF the
sixth SUFFRAGE who viii come among us-these
children Of Trailer nerves and tenderer feelings
these elder subtler egoes who are seeking parent
age among us They will he more delicate than We
as We are more sensitive than the japanese, Of the
last great SUFFRAGE. Much was said during the
Jana nese- Russian war Of the wonderful proportion
OF cures which the japanese surgeons wrought
That IS not all due 10 advanced surgery. The
japanese are not endowed with nerves Of such
deliCacy as The Europeans end the shock or A
wound is not such as 10 endsnger the mans life
IN many cases where Russian or an Englishman
would die.
THE shock snd racket Of your cities must so 10
make place for the new race 10 be reared Your
tlIbuays and your motor noises tear the nerves 81
,an those delicate children 10 rags Every great
race has two leaders who from the great &C
cult hierarchy TO lead and teach We must be
looking for such q leader for the sixth SUFFRAGE
of the second SUFFRAGE Of our NTH root race came
Hermes. and aided in Ar anizing Egypt. To tho
third came Zoroaster 70 the fourth Zoroaster and
40 the fifth came the teacher Of the Christian falt
These all the same person, or, 10 speak more
scientifically, the same individual. He viii be the
same individual in his appearance for the sixth
race"
HOW ABOUT THE SOUL STUFF?
4 have y very vital question. Why are some
souls more advanced than others since they all are
moulded out Of the same soul stuff, and so al
formed AZ The same time?' This from shy look
ling young woman who SAT out Of sight i'm a corner.
They not all formed at once. The history
Of our own SUFFRAGE extends over a million years
or more. That explains IT, doesn't it,
u did. A spectacled young man desired 10 know
whether the fundamentals Of Negetarianism would
not ne as wen applied IN of the fifth subtract,
fifth root race as the bright ones Of earlier
cycles Certainly. Mrs Bssaut had herself left of
the use Of meat fish and wine several years ago.
Were the conditions demanded short gentle
man with a flowing tle, in Atlantis as bad in re-
gard 10 competitive conditions and capitahstic OPP
preston as they are to-day?"
Not by any means Then n slim. straight
Ehouldered girl sprang NJ for final shot as the
meeting breaking up.
What ! want 20 know" she said. is why these
occult rulers and Leaders are always spoken Of
he You said he he, he all through your talk.
Is that -hestatng- strictly theosophical?
The priestoss smiled smile Of recognition and
welcome
'Assuredly not" she replied 1T IS merely in
convenient 10 always say ne she. that is all.
The term he you know, covers either gender in
such case. can sympathize with you fully in
your thought about il, however"