INCOMING SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 24 June 1911, Page 5

INCOMING SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.

The Rev. S. Barnett, as notified 1 by handbills and advertisement, has arrived in Masterton, to take up work in connection with one of the modern mental movements', Iris programme including lectures in the Exchange Hall, open-air lectures, and private classes. Mir Barnett began life as a school teacher, then graduated, as si theological student, in Hurtley College, Manchester, England. ' Miter thirteen years of what lie calls external theology and sect service, with average success as a Methodist Minister, his nature, always psychic, at thirty became more insistent, demanding expression, expansion. a;ad explanation. While Methodist minister at Pahiatlua, New. Zealand, he was introduced to tiro literature of the Theosophical Society, of which, he became a member, thus conducing to his voluntary .retirement. "" from the Methodist Olmrch. From the limitations of a circuit he lias, found a v world-wide parish, and for five years past has studied spiritual forces and rendered spiritual service throughout England, Scotland, and South. Africa, and is now working through New •Zealand. Mr Baa-nett has familiarised' himself with mtost .■pjh&^sV. ! bif>iXH>r' ctilit pjheiitwiiena, eiiaMihg him _ to give emphatic assent to the; "miracles" of the Bible, and. giving him, it is claimed, some facility in the' use of•.inspiration,; discerning of spirits, liealiing sick by; the inagnetie hand, and pa-opiheey as practised in the early Ghiristian church. He asisertsi that every true student of ooultisimi speedily passes out. of the realms of mere phenomena into .schools of universal pflulosophy, before wfhicih external doctrines and dogmas fade into Tlie wise and worthy student receives from his masters the (hidden, keys that unlock the esoteric door's of ancient wisdom and incoming knowledge. As in the .physical world there are tides, currents, re-curr-ents, periods and founds, so on mental and spiritual planes the student, as from a. mountain peak, perceives the working of universal laws in solar systems, and vast cyclic movements BeSore -his extended vision eras are born, developed, consumma*ed;> suaA dissolved,'" diminutive ,pensations such- as the ancient races are passing through 'taan, (Grecian, BioHiian—ithe latter ending; it& real dominion in A.D. 1001, wihen the occult observer see: anew era being ushered in. It is essentially British, being flanked by American., intellectuality and Indian spirituality. Old orders are seen passing out and away, having done their great, grand, and glorious work. New orders are moving on inner planes, and manifesting on our ; outer earth.' Further, fuller, and finer revelations of truth are being vouchsafed to lwimanity. Mr Bamett's lectures will be announced in our advertising columns.