THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24399, 10 September 1940, Page 9

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Speaking on "The Magic of Brotherhood" at the Theosophl'cal Society on Sunday night, Mr J. McEwan 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 practise of this brotherhood worked magic in dally life. The objects of the society inculcated all that was good, true and beautiful. The practise of the first object " to form a nucleus of universal brotherhood " made a new man of anyone. Practise of the second object, " to study comparative religion, etc.," opened up the conscience The practise 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 educationalists who already realised that brotherhood existed. The speaker referred to Talbot Mundy's new book, " Old Ugly Face," wherein the-author claims 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, noliticians, 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.