LECTURE ON THEOSOPHY.
At the Theosophical Society's '• room* last evening, Mr. J. E. Thomson lectured' oh "Some Difficulties of the Inner Life." Mr. Thomson said that men found God by all roads—God was the centre and tho. circumference. '■ Theosophy.. empha-; sised this truth, but theosophical state-' meats, were, not to be taken as,dogmatic. Keason was. a' light to guide all men.Divergent opinions should lie welcomed, as giving ;new-points of view. Belief without knowledge. was empty—ttuth was' a matter of sight. "Without' self-reliance wo could never know God. Men ate their hearts out over tho sin and sorrow, of ,tho world; but thcosophy- -helped people to see how sin and sorrow arebut : cleansing fires. Life was an opportunity to pay an ancient debt; death, was a recurring incident in at! endless"; chain of lives. . . ' During the- evening Mesdames Kendall and l'iasson contributed a duet by Bee-, thoven, and Mr. Claude Allan saDg "The l'Mrst Christmas Morn." Ifr. Hardit Shaw presided at tho gathering. „ •
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 979, 21 November 1910, Page 2
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