Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03
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her perfectly dazzling smile and her
delight of her high circle and of all )
those who knew her Katharine
lyman has written a classic in Rose
OF the Garden:" it is worthy to serve
as the text for illustrations after a
Reynolds or a Gainsborough.
Tbeosophy.
Various books on evolution and &C.
cultism and on theosophy which have
recently been published or repub-
lished, call attention particularly to
the hold which the latter cult gains
over women and old soldiers, men who
nave fought the battle of life with not
less courage than they displayed on
the field of conflict. When the cult
was less advanced, when Madame
Blavatsky published Isis Unveiled"
1t was noted quite generally that some
OF the most devoted of the disciples of
That prophecies were veterans of the
army, men of experience and fame in
their profession.
One of these, an officer Of the high
est rank, and one who gained re-
nown in many pitched battles, would
SIT by the hour and sing the praises
of the strange feminine adept whom
he regarded as the true leader of the
people in latter days, and then he
would enjoin upon all who would
hearken to him the benefit they would
| find If they would read Bulwer's
novel, "zanoni," which, he declared,
contained the essence or germ of the
osophy.
Women, think, look upon theoso-
ply as their final hope for comfort in
life, where, before it shed it's light
upon their path, they had encountered
only sorrow and disappointment. One
of the loveliest of women, gentle, in
telligent and beautiful, wife of a
distinguished civil engineer, a man
practical to the last degree, adopted
theosophy as a creed because she had
read about Mrs. Besant and her won
derful work in bringing the West and
the mysterious East nearer together.
Mrs. Besant's introduction to Yoga"
filled this lady'S heart with content
and rest such as she had never known
before. Mrs. Besant, indeed, has a
power of expression and lucid
method in the arrangement of ideas
which cannot fail to win the heart
eager for a philosophy of life that
shall be based on its inherent religious
necessity.
Mrs. Besant calls the introduction
to Yoga 1.-The science of sciences"
which, after ALL is much such a def
sky for her Isis Unveiled" 1t Is
enough to say of the philosophy of
these two women that it is, as they
express it, "a systematized knowledge
of the unfolding of consciousness, ap-
piled to the individualized self"
The object of the philosophy is to
lift human beings into another and
higher plane while existing in this
one, a plane wherein evolution and
tee t.,,. 20 h..
searcher after truth, whether it be
the living being or a visitor from the
spirit world.
The lady whose heart was moved by
Mrs Besant's eloddence gave an I'M
conscious illustration of the spirit of
| theosophy in a remark she made to a
friend. This friend lived in house
in Rutherford, N. j., commonly spoken
of as the Haunted House." The ex-
periences in 1t of the occupant seemed
to bear out its reputation. These were
recounted TO the theosophist, and she
said:
But, my dear, you should have
| listened and given heed when the
| ghost signified that 1t sought COM
munication with the material world
and it's denizens. Probably it was
some poor, earth bound soul seeking
to be freed from it's chains"
| Some of the later books which indt-
cate the steady growth of theosophy
and will prove of interest to those
who are interested in the subject are
the following: 1.-The Basis of Theos-
ophy," by James H. Cousins; India"
| by Mrs. Annie Besant; Some Occult
Experiences" by Johan Van Manen
and C. w. Leadbeater. and Studies in
the Lesser Mysteries" by Rev. T. G.
| Montague Powell. All these books
may be obtained of the agents of the
Theosophical Publishing Society.