THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 3

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Miss C. W. Christie, national lecturer for New Zealand, gave an add Tees on "The Law of Heredity" in the Theosophical Hall, Marion Street, on Sunday evoning. Miss Christie drew a very clear Fine of demarcation between ninn and Jiis body. The physical body, said Miss Christie, has a distinct heredity of its own, and here theosophy is one with science. Where it differs from science is in the fact that no single individual is the victim of tho sins of his fether. If a soul find itself in a diseased or unresponsive body it is .because he has made it possible by his past thoughts and desires. His moral and mental heredity is ae real a thing as his physical heredity. By clean living: and high thinking we'make a clean environment, and are attracted to parents of a similar type. We are to-day by our thoughts, desires, and actions ordering our next physical body, parents, and environment. Miss Christie traced the different theories of Weismann, Batoson, and Meiidal in relation to man's physical heredity, and the correspondence of the germ-cells oi the Mendelian theory with the permanent atoms of theosophy. I'onus are ever adapting themselves to life. Aβ the Divine'life in every soul expands it breaks down the inhibiting walls of convention, superstition, and creed and releases tho hidden possibilities 'within. Just as there are archetypes in plant and animal so there is the archetype of the Divine man m Vβ human eoul. Bach soul achieves hs archetype by finding hie. work. For this its sous we-come into incarnation, o find our work, and to re ease the hidden powers within us, by battling with within tho marble, a son of God and partaker of His glory.