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HAPPINESS FOR
WORLD DEPENDS
upon Wisdom
Ideals of Theosophy Elk
planned by Speaker at Ma
tional Convention.

st. Louis, Mo-, Aug. o6.-The ideals
Of theosophy, were explained tonight
bv Irving S. Cooper. in addressing the
national convention of the Theosophi-
cal society. He said:
philosophy is equally concerned
with science, art, religion, philosophy
and sociology. Those who studied
theosophy were as much interested in
ancient history as in current events,
in the theoretical as in the practical.
'In religion" Mr.. Cooper said, 1.-THE
supremely desirable thing is to see
that at heart all religions are one, that
thew teach the same spiritual verities
though expressed in different terms
and symbols. Such an understanding
between the great world faiths would
Danish narrow prejudice and intoler
ant bigotry and give to mankind q
largeness of vision and a sense of the
sureness of things. Now the worship
ers of God are divided into warrin.y
camps, and little can be done to help
the world. Religion also should be
brought more into touch with daily
life and we would gain by recognizing
that the churches are made for man
and not man for the churches.
"In sociology it is supremely desir-
able that the world understand what
may be called the educational scheme
of things-that the earth is literally
school, and that, by means of repeat
ed lives on earth, each human being
is going through an educational pro-
cess ending in perfection. Human
equality is "a myth. In former CEN
turtles we have tried and suffered
under a rule of an aristocracy Of
birth. In America today we are try
ing an aristocracy of wealth, but still
we are unhappy. In the wiser future
we shall build up an arstocracy of
wisdom, and then happiness for the
first time will dawn upon the world"
Suffer From Ignorance.
1.-TWO schools of thought hold anita
gonistic views about myths said L.
w. Rogers, in an address tonight.
tive man personified the forces of ma
ture and created gods and demons
from his Imagination, and that gradu-
ally as civilization developed, the
present religions emerged from the
myths. The opposing view is that re-
ligions have been revealed to mankind
by inspired seers a2d prophets. The
theosophical view is that each of these
schools of thought presents a part OF
the truth but that neither alone is
satisfactory explanation of the known
facts.
There are some important facts
about myths that can not be recon-
ciled with the materialistic hypothe-
SIS" he continued. Zone is that it IS
now known that the myths of savage
peoples teach profound truths of IA
ture that the mind of such people
could by no possibility comprehend.
Another is that at time when the
various parts of the world were I'M
known to each other the same truths
of cosmogony were represented by the
myths of the widely scattered peoples.
"There is no escape from the fact
that the Aztecs, the Red Indians, the
Hottentots, the Australian Bushmen,
and the Zulus, representing every
grade of life from the semi-civilized
to the most degraded on earth, had a
mythology containing the same pro-
found principles of cosmogony that we
find in the sublime myths of the great
Grecian civilization with it's peerless
are and literature. At that time these
different parts of world" he continued
chad been separated for thousands OF
years by u2explored oceans.
''The myths, like the religions ne
said in conclusion, "have suffered
from ignorant additions and subtrac-
tons but much of the original divine
wisdom still shines through them.
Their possession by the aborigines OF
the various widely separated parts OF
the earth sustains the theosophical
contention that such people are but
the remnants of mighty races which,
antedating any known records. built
up colossal civilizations through which
moved the majestic figures of the d.
vine world teachers of prehistoric