THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17109, 2 April 1921, Page 9

THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.

TO &HE EDITOR O*' "*H* Wt*M." J Sir,—Somo of.my friend# h«ro wlted; ."Why aren't you in tbisr'' X W*l taft first to rush to "Student'®" arauUnee, and offered to lend htm M Mtioto aft Ectoplasm/ but ,no Jn»ttor, _ to| ground has boon well covered, member the-P.S. was this?— and religion seem, to hftvo lEiloa ww dent.' wny not try TheoMpby or OTfti Spiritualism?" 1 should have adaettl "also Vedanta."—Youm, oto., ■ „ , PETER TfiOLOVB. I

TO THE EDITOR Of "**» rUSI."

Sir,—Tho only thing in tho nature * of a dogma, a belief in which must bo '•; subscribed to by members of tho Theo* :sophical Society, is that ofj'the. Uttj; » venal brotherhood .of Membership does not involve '•too J*©.., fession of a common belief; hits «»♦ mon search and aspiration form* >a * While I am in sympathy with tnoipttK "' eral tenor of tho views expressed on 1 this subject by Mr Edward Branseombe*.,, I cannot see eyo to eyo with nilllMgM, one point. Mr Branscomhoj Wgtfttf \± that "wo may, by our own qm*4 efforts, reach to the staturo of flgj Perfect Man." Whilo I believe WO ***£ required to '/work out our own sWWK>j tion," this doos not warrant the at?.? sumption that wo are expected to doj this unaided. My reading of TMf*| sofmical literature gives nso to '<j™y|| an opposite conception. If ono •ce»Dt»J| reincarnation as a rational hypi*tne«s»J| he must naturally look ahead to hj°**l| who are much moro highly evolved himself—to tho saints, saviours of tho world, to our ™** m Brethren, whoso "raison d'etre" ia JmM sen-ice of humanity. Without "mm Light of tho World" would stun*»J| hopelessly in tho dark. That tho Cmj»| is, proves His necessity. Ho is *i**l£| nf in Thcosonhical literature as «*JH Master of Masters, Teacher of men MH of angels, Lord °f U» MjPO» »*| World." . He is literally, tno "Stat W,| ltighteousne*,". awakening, » «HrtW| the germs of divinity within the tadra vidual, stimulating their growth, owr hastening the timo when j "joint-heirs"—shall attun unto fulness of His.staturo" One of 0».,j great leaders, who has trodden far »ti» Sarrow ancient path," has said, "With- - <mt His aid, I could havo don*_nothing." I feel wre that Mr Branscombe, in emphasising the necessity for effort by the individual, baa inadvertently conveyed an erroneous impression.—Yours, etc., _ __„^„,__« STUDENT OF THEOSOPBA. j;