THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1916, Page 6

THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

The lecture, "Visible and Invisible Helpers Upon the Battlefield," drew a large and inerested audience to May's tea room last night. 'Miss Christie spoke strongly of the great change that was coming over ' religious thought through the death of so many of our bravest and best. No one who believes in a fiod of love can alSro believe that He would send these brave men to an eternal hell because they could not accept this or that teaching about Him, so the wicked idea of an eternal hell will disappear. Any man brave enough, and unselfish enough to die for his country and in order to protect the weak is safe with fiod. Not only that, but he is met upon leaving the body, by teachers and helpers of a higher grade of spirituality, and is taught the truth about after death conditions. He sees the loved ones he has left on earth, and they see him, and in time, according to his knowledge and the breadth of his mind, he either has a long and beautiful Heavenlife, after which he returns to earth to enjoy the peaceful and improved social conditions lie helped to create, or, after a few years of wonderful progress and good work upon the astral plane, he returns to earth in the body of a babe o? the new sixth sub-race, and into a family where he can get the broader teaching, anil so will be on earth when the World Teacher—the Christ—comes, and will know Him and have the joy of working with Him, In the latter case the progress is equivalent to t'hat ordinarily made in ten or even twenty lives. We can, if we take the trouble to learn how, go to the battlefield every night while our physical bodies are asleep, or even during a sleep in the daytime, and help those who are fighting. The lecturer gave a description of tlic different kinds and degrees of materialisation required for this; and also gava instances of her own work upon the battlefield in helping the wounded and dying.