ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 37, 14 October 1913, Page 3

ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST.

(Contributed.) Two public lectures upon the meaning and work of. the above Order were given in the Foresters’ Hall on Sunday by Miss C. W. Christie, travelling organiser. The meeting in the • afternoon dealt with the breaking up of religion into religions, and the necessity (from the speaker’s view) for numerous separate religions because sops, are at different stages of evolution 'rind require different spiritual fdod. just as the members of any large family though brothers, being of, different ages , require different bodily food Give the babe a man’s ■MI ft ft - * ■ , I food aifd you kill hint, give the growing youth a hallo’s food and he is starred and so oh. The recent Court cases in 1 Madras in which Mrs Annie Bosant, the Protector of the Order and her ward. Mr J. Frishnamurti orj Alcyone, figured were explained as not having anything to. ,do with religion, but as purely political, and the lecture was concluded with the recount, ing of the beautiful old Eastern legend of the statues of Truth and the coming of the Jagat Guru or Worldteacher.

In the evening the public lecture was jipon the Bible—‘stories enwrapped 'about the beautiful life of our Lord Jesus ‘ Christ and was divided into heads (j),The coining into manifestation ,of the- Logos or Word ‘,‘lu tlio beginning.” (2) The story of the Sun-God, told in all.the great world religions. His. birth at the winter sol- ! ~,f I 1. ’ll stice when .all the powers of darkness are at theu-|,. strongest; and He . ]>orn under the. sign virgp or the virgin* (of the Cosmic ,Zodiac) who is still ja virgin when the Sun-God has come forth. His ascension till at His (zenith fipening corn and grape for his earthly children, standing triumphant' as a cross-—man with head erect and arm outspread ip joyous 1 sacrifice of giving life physical land life ' spiritual and His gradual withdrawal until born again as a babe at next winter solstice. (3) The story of the Essence Initiate, tied for three days and nights upon a wooden cross while the soul is tried in teaching the spirits in prison. 2nd Peter iii., and the symbolic ages 'of j* twelve, eighteen, thirty arid thirty-three years at which ho eiftet’h Upon different stages of his ’work. (4) The story of the human •child'ijisus, born Of Jewish' parents, poor,'but df 5 the Royal Lino of David, Aand of a’thertTonqn'ered and despised race, and his entering into his work ..■at the saihe symbolic‘ages as the Esscii(v''Jhitiat , d:' ''The entrance of Christ' 1 iiitb the inlnirtn physical' body at the baptism of the age of*‘3o years and ;tlle u descent :l df'th4 Ayatafa symbolised by the'd'eYe. <! His" glorious work for three years afterwards, and His death at the hands of the orthodox religionists at the age of 33 years. Sfs) The Birth of tlm, Christ the, Mystic dh'risf ' within Hie human heart .of every believer and devotee no matter what his religion, and the mystical moaijing of the worshiping slipiph.erds, SfWSf. p*S cmrekraed 1 by drawing atetntion exactly cqndition^jtp-dpy a s! tlib 1 world-wide expectation of the] nea|- approach of the Cpmjpg of ,thq wiidk'Richer;; ; ■ ■ i Thpre’Whs, a good atetndaneo .at bop,h ihqfet if&ij'/' ri’iid a number joiqed the Order at the, close. ~,v