THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1918, Page 7

THEOSOPHICAL LECTURE.

(Contributed). "The Forgiveness of Sins''' proved an attractive iitlo and drew n fine audience to hear Hiss Christie-tin Sunday night. This lecturer said that to all students of Theosophy who have gone into the teachings through or from the beliefs of Christendom and teaching- of the churches, there comes a time when iliey have to face Die problem of reconciling the law of Karma with the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins; for if Karma knows neither mercy nor resentment what becomes of the doctrine of God's mercy and His forgiveness of our sins; and if there be no'need of forgiveness what of the death of Christ and His vicarious atonement for us? These questions when asked by a soul must be answered, and no matter how often stifled, or given up as impossible to answer thev recur and recur until the answer is found. This need not trouble anyone, nor dishearten them, for it is not possible for a soul to ask a. question unless the answer to it is in the mind of Cod, and man's mind being part of Cod's mind, he can find it. "He that seeks shall find.'' It is really tlu* answer in the great mind of (tort that has prompted the question in man's mind. Knowledge on that line iias begun to filter through into the physical brain. Karma is the law of cause and effect, it is no respeetor of persons, it, merely acts, is unerring and inviolable, so can always be depended upon. Vorgiveness is ceasing to feel resentment.; to remit the penalty, to give or make over wholly without reservation. Cod is love and all wise, !-i cannot feel resentment, therefore eairaot ceaso to fee! what He never felt. The penalty of sin is old age, disease and

death, they nre still the lot of all, so that penalty is not remitted; and if God gives the penalty of sin wholly and without. reservation where is the justice of the suffering of Christ for us? Christ did die for us and because of us, but not instead of us, for we still die, but He did not remit the penalty, nor 4 take away our sin for we still sin and still sutter the penalty; but thanks be to His glorious name Ho conquered death and sin, and did it as man, (o teach us that what man has done man can do—a God, or God in comparison with us, but not the Cod of the universe, only a part of Him, a divine teacher who told, us to be perfect as His Father in heaven is perfect. Christ, the second person in the Trinity, is the universal Christ Spirit, the Saviour in the heart of every* man. the Saviour of all souls. The theosophical equivalent for tho forgiveness of sins is opportunity after opportunity of reaping nil that we sow, of righting the wront» done, in a series of earth lives, with always the help of the Christ, and other elder divine brothel's, and perfections, conscious oneness with Cod as our goal.