THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2476, 1 June 1915, Page 3

THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS

| LECTURE BY MISS CHEISTIE. . "The secret of happiness," said Miss Christie, in tho course of her lecture at the rooms of the Order of the Star iii tho East on Friday evening, "is, broadly speaking, spirituality, since that is a realisation of our oneness with God, and with all that in God lives and moves and has its being." Tills is a very different condition from that which is often called religious, for many religious people are intensely separative, intolerant, condemnatory, or contemptuous of those who differ irom them in opinion or religious belief, and so far as a man is any of these things, just so far is he unspiritual and devoid of real happiness. While embodied we can as a ride know happiness only in contrast with misery, so cannot be continuously or perfectly happy, but it is possible by understanding our own nature, i.e., by realising even to the extent of intellectually grasping the fact of our own inherent divinity, to have always a "place of peace," a quiet undisturbed spiritual centra into which we can retire, and from there quietly note the storms of passion, sorrow, mental unrest, and even physical pain which are rending our vehicles, but this moans an advanced stage of the jourj;ey towards spirituality, and presupposes the possession of a truly spiritual religion and a determined 'effort to live" it. To reach the stage of permanent happiness we must get body, emotions, and mind under control. \\ o must, above all, gain wisdom, and wisdom is knowledge transmitted by pure human love into perfect unselfishness. Send out the whole love of your divine nature to a great Divine Teacher—the Christ—live in that, and you will' see God in everyone and everything.