THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2915, 30 October 1916, Page 8

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Miss C. W. Christie, national lecturer for flie Theosopbical Society, delivered tho iirst of a series of lectures in tub society's hall last ovening, on tlio subject 'of .'Killed in Action:- Not Death, but Life." Speaking of tho suffering prevalent among people at tho present timo through tho loss of those dear to them, the lecurev stated that the great mass of peoplo wore quite unprepared, mentally as woll as physically, for tho present terrible war, and tho religious beliefs which had satisfied them in time of peaco failed to do-so now. Particularly wero most religious teachings unsatisfactory in their: lack of definite and direct knowledge of tho life after death. Thcosopby asserts that by, proper training it is possible for anyone to develop tho power to contact and function in the world beyond tho grave, whilo yet living in>. tho physical body. 'J'lio lecturer relates tho views of prominent theosophical invstigators in regard to tho after-death state of our fallen soldiers. Many of them, accustomed to the idea of wab'ng immediate-/ ly in either heaven or hell, are, tho lecturer mid, bewildered to find themselves in neither, and but little different than they were in their physical consciousness. While some of these- pass, by gradual stages, into a glorious and wellearned Heaven life, othors again, with certain qualities highly developed, forego their heaven life and rapidly reincarnate often in the same families in which flioy were last born, to participate in the building of tho new civilisation whoso keynote will be brotherhood, which will arise phoenix-liko from tho ashes of the old.