THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 99, 21 January 1919, Page 3

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

m , The Theosophieal Hall was'packed on sa Sunday night, when Miss "■ Christie,- na"a tional lecturer for New Zealand, gave a her third of a. series, of lectures on | "Man,.. Know Thyself." Miss ' Christie a purported to trace man's..life "beyondm the physical."- During hie life on earth, she snid/'man lives in. three worldslit i once viz., the worlds of action, emotion, and thought. According to bis life in these three, worlds-is his life after the death of the body. Casting off the physical body at death, he finds himself In the world he has created by his past desires and emotions. If they have been good and pure, he finds himself in.paradise, if the contrary in hades. Having exhausted these, in his plane of purification, he finds himself in the heaven "-orld. Nothins that defiles enters into

H this state. All the good aspirations, m hopes, and thoughts find fruition here. $|' It is a process of assimilation. Every\M thing in every individual's life that is j»; of permanent value- is worked up into || faculty for future lives. Death' does not *M bind or limit the individual; it provides ' 5J§ him with another opportunity to unfold m his divine possibilities. Man's interests M arc so confined in physical life that he. m is too often deaf to the higher consciousM.. ness, which is'continually playing on W him. The recent war has awaiven°d jffl thousands to seek light and knowledge |H on the real destiny of man. Theosophy «a holds out Knowledge and information to Ml the seeker, and gives a detailed plan of SH ftyfa oC coiP"io»s""ss 'nit.iide the p%ff|] sical body. Tt holds that man, being 'M divine, has within him the power to ro?$1 create himself. He is, and can.be, the ;jKB master of his own destiny. Theosophy yj denies any material hell. The greatest gal hell any soul can experience is unsatisSH fied desire. Desire brings the soul back m life after life. Liberation from the ,»| wheel of birth and death is reached by i|| transmitting desire into, will and co-oper-KJ ating with the divine plan «f evolution.