THEOSOPHY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 221, 21 March 1896, Page 2

THEOSOPHY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — The lecture given by the Countess of Wachtmeister last Tuesday evening should have been better attended. Those who did go will not easily forget the eloquent flow of beautiful English, simplifying the meaning of Karma and Re-incarnation. Certainly we don't all understand the occult sciences, yet we are supposed to live in the educational age. I don't mean arithmetic and spelling, but, in the words of the Countess, so man}' people have not the remotest idea where they come from, or where they are going. If you say the word " evolution " we see a blank expression on most faces. Such a lecture as we listened to on Tuesday evening is a rich banquet of enlightened ideas, the broad liberal mind, the common sense. Why, the most difficult problem is simple when we know how it is done. How many people would go on living a careless, selfish life, resting on some one to bear the burden of all their sins, when a knowledge of Karma is understood that every wrong deed, every criminal act, must be expiated by tbeindividual either in this life or in some other. Some people are horrified at the idea of responsibility. We have the ideal to reach up to the example of Christ to follow, but not to shut out our own respousibilitv of wrong doing. I am, etc., M. Reade.