Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-09
STUDY THE ART
OF HOLY LIVING
Newton RiddeTl Presents in a
Beautiful Way Symbol of
the Star of Magi.
LECTURE ON LOVE TONIGHT
Talk This Evening Only Pay One of
Series-Interest in Study of
Divorce.

Mr.. Riddells quiet talk about the
Mystical Star of the Magi" proved
Of unusual helpfulness and interest
to the Christian people. He made
the occasion informal and used a
blackboard to express a lesson in
symbology, saving his strength, as
he said, for the effort tonight on
Loves Paradise Regained. Tickets
are selling we'll for this lecture and
much anticipatory interest is ex-
pressed.
Last evening Mr.. Riddell said that
the star of Bethlehem seen by the
wise men from the east was not a
planet in the sky but a symbol seen
psychically, which had been given to
the Jewish people many centuries be-
fore as a symbol of the coming Mes
siah. He represented it as the six
pointed star seen to this day in ev-
cry Jewish synagogue, and anciently
said to have been the escutcheon on
the shield of David. He explained
that one triangle represented the
| triune nature of man and the other
! the fulfillme1t of the promise 81 will
put My spirit in man. the triune
God becoming the center of con-
seriousness and man his image and
expression, so that the teaching OF
Christ 81 in thee and thee in me-
becomes a reality and restores man
to the state of innocency which he
had before the fall.
LIVE MUCH IN EsOTERIC.
! He said that Christianity has an
esoteric or outer manifestation
which is rooted in an esoteric or
spiritual reality. I've live too much
in the esoteric side" he said, too
much in externals, the whole round
Of our lives is in personal opinions
desires and sensations, with a code
of ethics to satisfy and control con,
duct and have to be revived once g
year or so to produce a series OF
emotions to vibrate the heart. But
those who are living in the inner
> consciousness, the spiritual or rea
life have no such need, for this life
is, all in all, growing consciousness!
into vivid reality and the outer man
Hesitation seems a shadowy and eve
changing veil. Not many have en-
tered in; but the privilege isfor all
Not many can say as did DR.. Thoma
in my presence to a young theologi
cal student who declared that al
= we really know we apprehen,
? through the five senses. The docto
Y gathered his study robe around hin
= and answered very slowly and DELHI
/ erately: No, my young friend, yo1
a are mistaken. To me the spiritua
i world is the reality and the materia
D world but the shadowy effect
r Now the deeper Christian mys
n teries one knows only experimental
r ly; they cannot be put into words
e The Holy Spirit is the teacher an
4 leads those ready to receive HiI
e into the conscious experience.
: Tonight we want TO study not tn
: mysteries but the art of holy living
t The world needs it, humanity need
e it, the church needs it. The worl
r Of reality was known to every men
s Der of the early church Mollino'
Bohem and others of the middle age
knew it and Kempis and many ott
ers of modern times lived it."
DRAWS GRAPHIC PICTURES.
The speaker drew a graphic pit
= ture of the burning of Christians
a the Coliseum at Rome and said tia
G it was not mere belief which su:
5, tanned them, but conscious living
= this world of reality while yet in tn
e flesh. Dear friend, you mus
}. realize that the modern church lack
l. something vital, that the apostol
2. church had" he said. These maj
y tyrs had the consciousness that tn
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