The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-16
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE

AS stated here a few weeks ago
many people deny an interest in what
is sometimes denominated the 'oc-
cult"-although much that is superfic-
tally understood by that name is pseu-
debut, on the side, are consulting
palmists, fortune-tellers and others of
the supposed medea, through which
filter knowledge from the reverse of
the veil.
Why should people be ashamed,
however of a desire to penetrate the
mysteries-or the mystery, rather, of
life?
Why is it. considered doubtful to
pursue investigations into the source
of being.
Why is it thought to be an indica-
ton Of spiritual decadence to inquire
Why is it any more respectable to
believe in conventional creed than
to question the universe.
Why is it thought to be a sign of
against Color what is termed, or
meant by, Cod
Why, in short, is a longing and a
determination to wrest the Truth from
it on a pinnacle where it may guide
the fortunes OF men, regarded as a sort
of insanity and it's exploiters fit sub
jects for incarceration or excOmmuni-
cation.
Nobody knows.
Society is ruled by error, miScOncep-
ton of the meaning OF existence
which, indeed is apprehended by no
one although some individual entities,
as Christ, who was the epitome OF
love, nave interpreted and pointed a
way which no one has followed-by
blind egotism, by the lure OF the
senses, by false teachers, by surface
manifestations, by foolish rules, by
hide-bound regulations, by misdirected
energies and vain and wasted yearn-
ings-by all that is useless and mega
tive and ineffective.
And to end in what?
oblivion?
not risht-who is there to deny him
No matter what the system of phil.
osophy, what the religion, what the
creditor none are revealed, all man
built. all the fruit of the thing called
the brain" Of the human animal, no
matter what the state of development
nobody knows.
Why quote the Bible?
What is the Bible?
A book made up of history. poems
legend, tradition, short stories, sym
bolic drama, and much beautiful liter
ature undesirable.
Creeds, religions, philosophers
mere anchors for the soul in the sea
of the unknown.
There are, however, systems which
nullify doubt.
And at no time in the history of hui.
mainly has the massed mind been
more open to impression and convic.
ton than now.
This is manifested by the interest
as stated before, in what is termed the
occult" although few have but
vague notion as 10 the meaning OF
the word 1t is associated by the
average with spirit rappings,' with
mediums, with fortune telling, with
things uncou'. with the wild-eyed and
with infinite vagaries.
New religions, new PHILOSOPHERS,
new creeds have been evolved. But
none is satisfying.
The world is searching after the
Truth.
Therefore the address to be made
next Sunday afternoon on The Great
err Meaning of Occultism," by an ex-
ponent of that phase of development
known as the Yogi philosophy, which
has it's origin in Buddhism, should in.
terest the local public.
The foregoing observations. however,
have nothing to do with the latter.
The Yogi as understood specifically
has do with the exposition of Truth
in it's universally.
Its basis is knowledge, not belief.
1t begins where the material scien-
fist ends. 1t explains illusion and
teaches how to live. Theosophy is
one of it's phases. But it is greater