THEOSOPHY AND CHRISTIANITY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 13

THEOSOPHY AND CHRISTIANITY.

tO tß* KDITOB Of THB PBESB. .report of the Yen. Arch~7°® Taylor's sermon on Theosophy, N?P*ared in your issue of the k* B been brought to my no- „ Of course, nothing is easier ®*k« charges and aspersions, "•8. »T ore difficult it is to prove Hie Archideacon finds fault with tWof the Society because iiltfQTi ®°t to believe, but to have \iW . "Pledge of what they preach, kg J?with this? Will it not tti day for Christianity when will also claim a direct what they teach and not a ®ere belief? Perhaps »B| tiwSr?* on wishes to deny those «. BoW^e^e w hich they claim 881118 't was denied to k verses of the Epistle "the early Fathers **' WiL?" g><wt * cat — th at is knowt?ere believers. They «4» h i triJ ths of Chrisknown and that the dii bad hy living «*«a»th o A mßehes lived - 1 can kv? #ee ? ,® u ' eaco " that the best b. ttodnet lna ' l ' s ? < n »er knowledge S* tfcii l ® me tJle I>v«h of *,f? c . oso l' h ists is a" contij. ft. . tneir claims, and I can e2* BlatchKg' aalv thin °, phy ' simply replied: SJjK- U fhatZfi? } know about TheoV friend s are joio y teaches rewTith in nature; and

again, was not reincarnation also taught by the early gnostic fathers of th" Christian Church, and by no less than the great Origen? One of the planks of the Theosophical Society is thus expressed : To encourage the study of comparative religion. philosophy, and science. This includes all those theories and writings given out by some members regarding the Masters, Tibet, etc. Should the Societv ex-communicate these members for giving out what they sav is truth to them 6 Theosophists believe that expression and not repression is tho real safety valve for the finding of truth, leaving every member free to iccept or reject its theories. The only teaching to which thev must subscribe is., the recognition of the Universal Brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste, or colour. This is not a mere belief with us, but recognised as a fact in nature, (t is also the corollary to the teaching of the Fatherhood of God, the proof of which is the interdependence of all living things, including also the socalled non-sentient nature. Theo-

sophists neper denied the Divinity ot Christ. How could they, when they maintain that man also is divine, and that the Christ is latent in every human heart, and that by applying His teachings to their own lives the Christ will become a living Reality to us all.—Yours, etc., H. COLOXNA. November 2'! th. 1930. THE TRAMWAYS. TO THE EDI I'OH OP THE PRESB Sir, —Now that Tramway matters arc being talked about so freely, I would like to ask whether it would be possible. after 25 years of electric tramway service, to set aside some holiday, or Saturday, on which a "roving ticket" could be issued to the general public at a nominal charge, in order that a wider vision of our tramway undertaking could be obtained by those people who could not afford to" find a multiplicity of train-fares in one day. This is done ia certain British dis-

triets over the entire working clay for Ib a in either bus or car. I believe the ChMstehureli Tramway Board eould do it for Is Od.— i'ours, etc., IP. P. SMITH. New Brighton, November 20th, 1930.