THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 10

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Speaking on * The Magic of Brotherhood ’ at the Theosophical Society on Sunday night, Mr J. M‘Ewan said the remedy for all human troubles lay within one’s own self. The realisation of the one life brought automatically the brotherhood of all creatures, even down to the lowest kingdoms of Nature, while the practice of this brotherhood worked magic in daily life. The objects of the society inculcated all that was good, true, and beautiful. The practice of the first object “ to form a nucleus of universal brotherhood ” made a new man of anyone. Practice of the second object, “ to study l comparative religion, etc.,” opened up the conscience. The practice of the third object, “ to investigate the unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man,” opened the way to a new civilisation. Among the members were prominent educationists who already realised that brotherhood existed. The speaker referred to Talbot Mundy’s new book, ‘ Old Ugly Face,’ wherein the author claimed that man was a soul possessing a body. All the experiences in life contributed to the growth of the soul. Foremost in a nation were the men who originated noble ideals, then next came the people who helped to popularise them, and lastly the man who sought to put them into practice. To the latter class belonged most of the politicians, for, ordinarily speaking, the politician could not give us the basis of life and the causes underlying the very (reforms he sought to emulate. When people were prepared to -think more of their duties than their rights, there would come a lasting peace.