Theosopby

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 126, 13 April 1893, Page 4

Theosopby

Mrs Cooper- Oakley, an exponent of Theosophy, delivered a lecture on a recent Sunday night in Melbourne. Mr James Smith, the art and dramatic critic of the Argus, presided over the gathering. The lecturess at the outset drew attention to the great inequalities met with in everyday life, and argued that neither the ordinary theological doctrine — which taught that a soul was created by God for every fresh human being that comes into the world— nor the materialistic conception, could help them in deciding why one person should be different from another, nor satisfy them why there should be any inequalities in the. world. The only other possible solution of the great mystery of life was tke oldest idea that had been put forward — namely, the doctrine of reincarnation—which was held at the present moment by two- thirds of the human race, and in which they found a solution of the problem. Theosopby held there were three springs of evolution in man which made him the complex being he is— the physical, the mental, the divine — and it taught them that they were the creators and moulders of their future lives. The law of Karma as understood in the East was simply the law of sequence, or cause and effect, working from the moral standpoint, the mental standpoint, and the spiritual standpoint, and it has produced a wonderful effect in Eastern countries, making the people fearless of death.