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from the ,east4 ,,universal ,,brotherhood ,,vol4 ,,xiv4 ,,january1 #ahii4 ,no4 #aj4 ,a ,,happy ,,new ,,year4 ,once more we enter upon a new year1 and the ,greetings of our hearts rise spontaneously and go out to our loved ones and comrades throughout the world1 to all the people of the earth1 and to all creatures4 ,we look back through twenty-three years and we see that lion-hearted pioneer ,h4 ,p4 ,blavatsky standing alone1 proclaiming her message to the world4 ,then a few gather around her and among them is our beloved ,chief1 ,william ,q4 ,judge4 ,a little later1 ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 leaves ,america for ,europe and ,india1 and the picture comes before us of ,w4 ,q4 ,judge meeting in ,new ,york1 night after night1 often alone1 sometimes with but one or two4 ,we know now what he was doing4 ,we can see now how faithfully he tended the seed that has grown to a tree which is for the healing of the nations1 and how he watched the spark that is now bursting into flame1 a beacon of ,truth1 ,light and ,liberation for discouraged humanity4 ,how small a beginning6 ,how glorious the result even now6 ,but could ,i show you the picture of a few years hence you would say it is beyond belief4 ,but it is not4 ,the tide has turned4 ,the sorrow and suffering which have oppressed ,humanity for ages are nearing their end1 the day of hope has already dawned1 the new age and the new year of ,universal ,brotherhood has begun4 ,how glorious then is the opportunity of all to-day1 and how great the responsibility of each one to help and not obstruct or hinder this work for humanity4 ,success cannot be attained without effort4 ,the evil in the world and in man's own nature cannot be overcome without a struggle4 ,but is it not a glorious thing to fight on and still fight8 ,some1 perhaps1 may fall1 some have fallen in the struggle1 but the victory is certain1 and if all1 when they are sore-pressed1 would but remember the words of ,h4 ,p4 ,b41 they would take new courage and new strength to go ever forward4 ,trials you must pass through or you will not be purified4 ,twenty failures are not irremediable if followed by as many undaunted struggles upward6 ,is it not so that mountains are climbed8 ,and can we not see already how glorious is the work that has been accomplished4 ,but two short years to the end of the ,century and we shall see the ,sun shining gloriously4 ,the battle is already won1 the darkness is already fast disappearing before the light of day4 ,the work of ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 and ,w4 ,q4 ,j4 has spread around the world and with each ,new ,year the note of ,brotherhood resounds more clearly and the ,happy ,new ,year shall be realized4 ,what a ,greeting the ,chief would1 and ,i know1 does send to all4 ,this ,,universal ,,brotherhood ,magazine is the outgrowth of ,the ,path in which year after year he sent out his ,greetings to the members and once again that our new members and friends may become as familiar with him as those of us who knew him personally and worked with and loved him we send his portrait as a ,new ,year's ,greeting4 ,,katherine ,a4 ,,tingley4 ,,comrades2 ,,greeting6 ,universal ,brotherhood1 the keynote of the coming cycle6 ,let its melody be diffused to the four points of the compass from the very depths of our hearts at this important hour at the closing of the year #ahih1 that it may reach the hearts of other men and women4 ,the time is opportune and propitious1 for the whole race has already been touched by the virtue of compassion4 ,our organization1 firmly founded on this high ideal1 has sent its tendrils from the bosom of love and sympathy to discouraged humanity through its many channels of dissemination of the sublime philosophy of solace and happiness4 ,this greatest movement for the redemption of all mankind has been led through the initial stages of development with great success by the ,master-hand of ,wisdom2 all brethren in the work may now take heart and strength from the certainty that the possibility of accomplishment is in sight4 ,signs are not wanting that the truths of our ideals are breaking through the strong crust of conventionality1 and that the world has already been brought nearer to the realization of it by the efforts of this organization4 ,love to all workers6 ,e4 ,,aug4 ,,neresheimer4 ,ring out the old1 ring in the new1 ,ring1 happy bells1 across the snow4 ,the year is going1 let him go2 ,ring out the false1 ring in the true4 ,ring out the grief that saps the mind1 ,for those that here we see no more2 ,ring out the feud of rich and poor1 ,ring in redress to all mankind4 ,,tennyson1 ,in ,memoriam4 ,,alphonse ,,de ,,lamartine4 ,,by ,,alexander ,,wilder1 ,m4 ,d4 ,,iii4 ,,early ,,manhood4 ,goethe has pictured ,faust as having first acquired the learning of the schools1 philosophy1 medicine1 jurisprudence and theology2 then as going forth with ,mephisto in quest of excitement1 to which comes a tragic ending4 ,the shock of this paralyzes him for a time from further endeavor4 ,in the ,second ,book of the drama1 he again rises up with strong resolve to begin an active career in the busy world4 ,somewhat in analogy with this is the history of every one who leaves adolescence behind and attempts without the discipline of experience1 to find a place and engage in the future work of life4 ,too often1 however1 it is more the varied wanderings of a ,jung-,stilling1 requiring the vicissitudes of years of preparation4 ,lamartine desired to enter upon a military life1 but it was repugnant to the wishes of his family that he should take service1 either in the army of ,bonaparte1 or of any country that might be opposed to ,france4 ,his father retained his royalist sentiments with characteristic stubbornness1 and his older uncle1 the recognized head of the family1 though a former friend of ,mirabeau1 had refused the office of ,senator when offered to him by the ,emperor4 ,young ,lamartine was thus handicapped and forced to idleness4 ,he spent some winters in ,paris1 and mingled with the gaieties and dissipations which young men encountered at the metropolis4 ,the result was self-abasement4 ,he incurred debts at the gaming table1 which his limited allowance though eked out by secret contributions from his mother1 were insufficient to meet2 and he formed acquaintances that were a serious drawback to him in later years4 ,perhaps he1 like ,bunyan1 depicted himself in darker colors than there was really occasion4 ,there was not1 says he1 air enough in the sky1 fire enough in the sun1 or space enough on the earth for the want of breath1 excitement and burning that consumed me4 ,i was a living fever2 ,i had the delirium and inquietude of it in every part4 ,the sober habits of my years of study1 and the tranquil piety of my mother and our teachers1 have been put far away from me4 ,my friendships were as unworthy as my feelings4 ,i had become intimate with the most giddy and turbulent young men of my country and period4 ,nevertheless while he was going forward so readily in disorderly ways he was actually repelled by them4 ,indeed1 he was only imitating others1 and not really following his own natural disposition4 ,when he came to be alone1 the solitude purified him4 ,in #ahac he again visited ,italy4 ,his first opportunity for activity now came4 ,paris having surrendered and ,napoleon having abdicated1 the ,allied ,powers of ,europe placed ,louis ,,xviii4 on the throne of ,france4 ,this prince had always been liberal in his views1 and he now proclaimed a constitutional government4 ,this conciliated all parties1 royalists and republicans alike4 ,lamartine was enrolled in the ,royal ,guard1 and was of the force that marched against ,bonaparte upon his return from ,elba4 ,the statement has been generally accepted and believed that the reception of the ,emperor on this occasion was of the nature of a triumph4 ,lamartine declares that this was unqualifiedly untrue4 ,the enthusiasm1 he affirms1 was confined entirely to the soldiers and to the dregs of the population4 ,france1 itself1 the real ,france1 had become utterly weary of this fighting for the aggrandizement of this one man4 ,it had welcomed ,louis ,,xviii41 but not as the king of a counter-revolution4 ,it did not contemplate any going back to former conditions4 ,the king was received as the king of the ,liberal ,constitution4 ,all the movement of the ,revolution of #aghi which had been interrupted was commenced anew by us after the fall of the ,imperial ,government4 ,the entire ,france1--the ,france that thought and not the ,france that clamored--was perfectly conscious that the return of ,bonaparte meant the return of the military rgime and tyranny4 ,of this it stood in dread4 ,the ,twentieth of ,march #ahae was a conspiracy of the army and not a movement of the nation4 ,if there had not been an army organized in ,france that was ready to fly under the eagles of its ,emperor1 the ,emperor would never have reached ,paris4 ,nevertheless ,lamartine was confounded by what took place4 ,in the brief space of eight days apart1 he saw one ,france ready to rise up in mass against ,bonaparte1 and then another ,france prostrate at his feet4 ,from that day he despaired of the omnipotence of opinion and believed even more than he ought in the power of bayonets4 ,louis ,,xviii41 the ,count d',artois and son1 with ,marshal ,marmont and the royal forces left ,paris the night before ,bonaparte made his entry4 ,as they passed the cities on their retreat1 the citizens brought them food1 execrating the ,pretorians who had overturned the institutions and peace of the country4 ,royalists and ,republicans alike participated in this denunciation of the treason of the army4 ,at ,arras the king left the troops and went on by himself to ,belgium4 ,the ,count d',artois and ,marshal ,marmont1 the commander of the forces1 followed soon afterward1 after having issued a proclamation absolving the men from their oath4 ,thus abandoned1 the question arose1 what was next to be done4 ,after a desultory discussion1 a musketeer declared that the true and safe course was to leave ,france and take service abroad4 ,lamartine opposed this proposition4 ,though but twenty-four years of age1 he had won the respect of his comrades4 ,stepping on the wheel of a wagon he addressed them4 ,it was his first attempt to speak in public4 ,he referred to the significant fact that his family had been loyal to the monarchy1 but had not emigrated during the ,revolution4 ,he had been nurtured in such sentiments4 ,louis ,,xviii4 had now given ,france a representative government4 ,the cause of ,republican ,liberty and the cause of the ,bourbons had thus become united4 ,if now the two parties should continue to act together1 the reign of ,bonaparte would be short and his fall complete4 ,but if the royalists should now emigrate1 they would1 by so doing abandon the ,republicans to the army4 ,the blood of the ,republicans would smother all resistance to the ,empire4 ,the duty1 therefore1 of those now present1 both to their country and to their families1 forbade that they should follow the king out of the ,french territory4 ,most of the men voted to remain2 a few rode away4 ,being now without officers1 a temporary organization was effected1 posts established around ,bethune and a patrol provided4 ,four days later a capitulation took place1 by which they were permitted to go to their families1 but excluded from ,paris4 ,lamartine1 however1 put on the dress of a citizen and went in a cabriolet to ,paris4 ,a few days later he was present at a review of the troops4 ,the ,emperor1 he observed1 exhibited none of that ideal of intellectual beauty and innate royalty1 which writers had so often depicted4 ,he seemed to be conscious that the ground was not solid under his feet4 ,his movements indicated distrust and hesitation4 ,as the troops defiled before him they cheered with a concentrated accent of hopelessness4 ,lamartine went home with renewed confidence4 ,the ,imperial conscription filled the ,chevalier1 his father1 with dismay4 ,lamartine declared to him that he would in no case enter the ranks himself or procure a substitute4 ,he would sooner be shot to death4 ,leaving home1 he put on the dress of a peasant laborer1 and eluding the videttes on the frontier1 crossed into ,switzerland4 ,for some weeks he was the guest of the ,baron de ,vincy1 an emigrant nobleman whose property had been confiscated4 ,himself almost without money and his entertainers impoverished1 he could not bring himself to burden them longer4 ,leaving them abruptly1 he made his way to ,geneva4 ,he was actually considering the project of applying to be a tutor in a ,russian family and travelling to the ,crimea1 ,circassia and ,persia1 when the final overthrow of ,bonaparte called him back to ,france4 ,he became again a member of the military household of the king4 ,here he found his oldest and most beloved of friends1 the ,count ,aymon de ,virieu4 ,they had been in college together1 had travelled in ,italy1 their fathers had shared danger together in the ,royal ,guard on the fatal ,tenth of ,august4 ,they were ever after as two brothers1 one in thought1 one in soul1 one in purse4 ,they continued members of the ,guard till it was disbanded4 ,some years afterward ,virieu made ,lamartine acquainted with several persons of distinction whose good offices indirectly facilitated ,lamartine's entry into public life4 ,virieu was boisterous1 full of jest1 and a skeptic in religion4 ,he was through his mother1 descended from ,montaigne1 and he had inherited that author's disposition4 ,he quoted him incessantly4 ,lamartine1 on the contrary1 had inherited from his mother1 a melancholic temperament1 quiet1 serious and religious4 ,he could not bear ,montaigne's skepticism1 nor his salacious utterances4 ,man is born to believe1 he declared4 ,to believe in nothing is the way to accomplish nothing1 and impurity in speech is a soiling of the soul4 ,he spent a summer with ,virieu and his family in ,dauphin4 ,their way of living was a reflection of his boyhood life at home1 and brought calm and repose to his mind4 ,virieu afterward became serious like his mother and withdrawing from public life on account of his health1 died some years later4 ,in him1 says ,lamartine1 ,i lost the living witness of the first half of my own life4 ,i felt that death had torn out the dearest page of my history1 and that it was enshrouded with him4 ,another fellow-student whom ,lamartine repeatedly mentions1 was the baron ,louis de ,vignet1 of ,chambery1 in ,savoy4 ,they were often competitors for the prizes4 ,vignet gave up the profession of law and accepted a life of poverty for the sake of his mother and sister4 ,he had been a skeptic and scoffer in religion and repulsive in temper1 but watching with his dying mother1 he became changed and was modest1 pensive1 gentle and melancholy4 ,he had hesitated to renew his acquaintance with ,lamartine during the latter's wild career in ,paris1 but now1 meeting accidentally1 the two were drawn together at once4 ,vignet greeted ,lamartine more as a father than as a comrade1 and they quickly formed a compact of friendship4 ,as if to seal it they went together to ,charmettes to visit the house where ,rousseau had lived1 and afterward went to ,servolex together4 ,vignet was a nephew of the ,counts de ,maistre1 two of whom were distinguished in the political arena and world of letters4 ,lamartine was received by the elders as a son1 and the younger members of the family as a brother4 ,he remained with them during the summer4 ,the wholesome influence took his mind away from the philosophy of the guardhouse and the effeminate literature then current in ,france4 ,it was indeed an important epoch in his history4 ,time1 death1 difference of country and opinion afterward separated them1 but he always vividly remembered that summer at the house of ,colonel de ,maistre and ,louis de ,vignet4 ,a diversion of the household consisted of recitations of verse4 ,vignet had collected a large number of effusions which were current among the ,savoyards4 ,lamartine also ventured to recite his own verses before ,colonel de ,maistre and his daughters4 ,the old man admired his pure ,french diction and predicted to his nephew that ,lamartine would become distinguished4 ,another summer found ,lamartine at home in ,milly4 ,the family had gone away2 the father and uncles to a hunting party in ,burgundy1 the mother on a journey1 and the sisters on visits to friends1 or to the convent4 ,he was left alone with no companionship but an old servant-woman1 his horse and his dog4 ,the silence1 the loneliness of the garden1 and the empty rooms reminded him of the tomb4 ,it was in keeping with his state of mind4 ,he felt himself1 or rather he desired to feel himself dead4 ,in this mood he again resumed familiar relations with the ,abb ,dumont1 his former schoolmaster at ,bussires4 ,the abb had himself become the parish priest4 ,there had been a tragedy in his life before he gave up his place in the world to take orders4 ,he was the original of ,jocelyn in ,lamartine's little poem4 ,lamartine rode daily to the parsonage4 ,the two discoursed on topics more or less abstruse1 such as the state of man on the earth1 the vanity of ambition1 the religions1 philosophies and literature of different peoples1 the esteem bestowed on one great man over another1 the superiority of certain authors to their rivals1 the greatness of spirit in some and littleness in others4 ,to set forth their views they quoted authors of every age1 like ,plato1 ,cicero1 ,seneca1 ,fnlon1 ,bossuet1 ,voltaire1 ,rousseau4 ,poetry was more severely handled4 ,dumont appreciated only the sense of language1 and did not care for the musicalness of what was uttered4 ,they both agreed that in the study of rhythm and the mechanic consonance of rhyme there was a puerile attempt to associate a sensual delight of sound to some grand thought or manly sentiment4 ,versifying pertains to the speech of a people's infancy1 prose to that of its maturity4 ,lamartine conceived that poetry does not consist in the mere sensuousness of verse1 but in the ideas1 the sentiment1 the image4 ,to change an utterance into music does not perfect it1 but materializes it4 ,the simple sentence justly and forcibly expressing the pure thought or naked sentiment without a dream as to the sound or form of phrase1 is the genuine style1 the expression1 the ,,word4 ,these conversations naturally drifted to the supreme questions of the time--to politics1 philosophy and religion4 ,dumont was that contradictory character1 found so often in many countries--a royalist although a democrat1 and opposed to the ,revolution1 although he detested the ancient rgime and actually accepted the very aims and doctrines which the ,revolution contemplated4 ,both he and ,lamartine had been fed with the marrow of ,greek and ,roman literature4 ,they adored ,liberty as a well-sounding term before they came to consider it as a holy thing and as the moral quality in every free man4 ,dumont was philosophic1 like the century in which he was born4 ,in his house there was no token to show that he was a priest--neither breviary1 nor crucifix1 nor image of a saint1 nor priestly garment4 ,all these he relegated to the sacristy4 ,he considered the mystic rites of ,christianity which he performed as belonging to the routine of his profession1 to be little else than a ritual of no importance1 a code of morals illustrated by symbolic dogmas and traditional practices1 that did not encroach on his mental independence and reason4 ,he spoke of ,god to an infantile people1 using the dialect of the sanctuary4 ,but when he returned home he discoursed in the language of ,plato1 ,cicero and ,rousseau4 ,his mind was incredulous1 but his soul1 softened by his sad fortune1 was religious4 ,his great goodness of heart enabled him to give to this vague piety the form and reality of a precise faith4 ,he constrained his intelligence to bow under the yoke of ,catholicism and the dogmas of religion4 ,he read and admired the writings of ,chateaubriand and others of the time1 but he was not convinced2 he did not believe what they taught4 ,lamartine1 on the other hand1 was influenced by the religion of his infancy4 ,piety always came back to him when he was alone2 it made him better1 as though the thought of man when he is isolated from others was his best counsellor4 ,it was not so much a matter of conviction1 as a wish that it should be true4 ,the poetry and affectionateness of religion swayed his will4 ,he could contemplate the mystery of the ,incarnation as filling1 or at least bridging over1 the unmeasurable space between humanity and ,god4 ,if he did not quite admit this as actual fact1 he revered it as a wonderful poem of the soul4 ,he embellished it with the charms of his imagination1 he embalmed it with his desires1 he colored it with the tints of his thought and enthusiasm2 in short1--he subordinated his rebellious reason to this earnest desire to believe1 so that he might be able to love and pray4 ,he put away from him1 as by force1 every shadow of doubt and repugnance1 and almost succeeded in producing the illusions for which he was so eager1 and in conforming the habit of his soul to the current sentiment of the epoch4 ,if he did not really worship his mother's ,god as his own ,god1 he at least carried him in his heart as an idol4 ,the cordial relations of the two friends were maintained for years4 ,the priest continued to minister in his little church and gave much assistance to the mother of ,lamartine in her charities4 ,above his grave in the cemetery is a stone with a brief epitaph1 and beneath it the words3 ,alphonse de ,lamartine son ami4 ,the mental depression under which ,lamartine labored1 seriously affected his health4 ,the family physician was alarmed4 ,plainly enough it was from causes outside of the province of medicine and so instead of prescribing medicines he ordered the young man to go to ,aix in ,savoy1 to the hot sulphur springs4 ,he borrowed money from a friend of the family and went4 ,vignet procured a room for him1 and paid him several visits during his sojourn4 ,it was early ,autumn4 ,october had just begun1 and the leaves on the trees had put on their colors4 ,the bathing season was over1 and the usual guests had gone away1 leaving the place solitary4 ,there was another patient in the house4 ,this was a lady from ,paris4 ,she was in a decline and had been at ,aix several months4 ,lamartine1 however1 had no inclination to see her4 ,an accident on the lake brought them together in which he rescued her from imminent peril of life4 ,the acquaintance thus begun became at once an ardent attachment4 ,lamartine describes it as repose of the heart1 after having met with the long-sought and till then unfound object of its restless adoration2 the long-desired idol of that vague1 unquiet adoration of supreme beauty which agitates the soul till the divinity has been discovered4 ,this lady1 the ,julie of his story1 was the wife of an old man1 a friend of the ,emperor ,napoleon4 ,he had first seen her at the convent where she was receiving her education4 ,she was a native of the island where the ,virginia of the romance was said to have been born1 and had been brought to ,france4 ,she was without friends to protect her or the necessary dowry to attract proposals of marriage4 ,the old gentleman in pity for her friendless condition1 had married her1 receiving her as a daughter and not as a wife4 ,her health had given way1 and he sent her to ,aix in hope that the mountain air and bathing might restore her4 ,she had no liking for gallantry4 ,yet she did not affect prudery or reserve4 ,she declared her understanding of their peculiar relations in terms the most forceful3 ,eternity in one instant and the ,infinite in one sensation4 ,then she said further3 ,i do not know whether this is what is called love2 nor do ,i wish to know2 but it is the most supreme and entire happiness that the soul of one created being can draw from the soul1 eyes and voice of another being like herself--a being who1 till now1 was wanting to her happiness1 and whose existence she completes4 ,she had lived among philosophers of the ,french school1 and did not have views like those of the women of ,europe who bowed before another criterion than their conscience4 ,i believe1 said she1 in the ,god who has engraved his symbol in ,nature1 his law in our hearts1 his morality in our reason4 ,reason1 feeling and conscience are the only revelation in which ,i believe4 ,she then asked that this their mutual affection should remain like a pure thought and so be in no way blended with any other relations4 ,in this way six weeks passed by4 ,they adhered strictly to their line of action1 yet she fretted jealously at the thought that ,lamartine would love another after her death1 and even attempted suicide2 but presently yielded the point1 and even predicted that he would yet find another like and as dear as herself4 ,winter drew near and they left ,savoy for their respective homes4 ,unknown to her1 ,lamartine followed her travelling coach to ,paris1 and then went to ,milly where ,vignet was awaiting him4 ,he remained at home till ,january4 ,he had exhausted his allowance of money4 ,his mother observed his restlessness and attributed it to want of diversion4 ,she presented him with a diamond1 the last jewel which she had retained from her young girlhood1 and bade him go to ,paris4 ,it is the last token of my love1 said she1--and ,i stake it in the lottery of ,providence4 ,this gift had a wholesome influence4 ,he became thenceforth more prudent in the expending of money1 and never parted with the gem till his other resources were exhausted4 ,he no more affected to be engaged in study while actually spending his time in dissipation4 ,he directed his days to reading in history1 science1 political economy and diplomacy4 ,the ,count de ,virieu was in ,paris and received him to share his modest lodgings4 ,nevertheless1 his money though now carefully managed1 was finally exhausted4 ,he was called upon by old creditors to pay the debts of honor that he had incurred in former years4 ,he had renewed his intimacy with ,julie1 and her husband gave him the warmest of welcomes4 ,her health was failing fast1 and he took frequent excursions with her about ,paris in the hope of benefit4 ,at the end of the winter the alternative was presented to support himself or go back to ,milly4 ,when in college he had written verses which his friends there greatly admired4 ,he continued to do so at different times1 and had brought a collection of them to ,paris4 ,he now offered them to publishers but without success4 ,he was obliged to submit4 ,he made a farewell excursion with ,julie to ,st4 ,cloud1 and left ,paris the next morning4 ,that summer was for him more terrible than ever4 ,he saw no hope of emerging from poverty and obscurity4 ,crops failed that year and the resources of the family were straitened to actual penury4 ,his health suffered and serious results were apprehended4 ,he was again ordered to go to ,aix4 ,his mother procured the money for him by surreptitiously selling trees that were growing on their little farm4 ,a note from ,julie informed him that her husband was ill1 but told him to go to ,aix and wait for her4 ,when he arrived there1 there came a package forwarded from ,chambery enclosing letters from ,paris4 ,one of these was from ,julie#a containing a lock of hair and bidding him farewell4 ,it had been herself and not her husband1 that was ill and dying4 ,she had given up her former disbelief4 ,god will send you another sister1 she wrote1 and she will be the pious helpmate of your life4 ,i will ask it of him4 ,a letter from the husband asked ,lamartine to continue to him as a son4 ,the shock almost bereft him of reason4 ,he wandered for months over the mountains of ,savoy and ,switzerland1 as he describes1 like a darkened soul that had lost the light of heaven and had no mind for that of earth4 ,his mother secretly procured money for him in the hope that travel would alleviate his condition1 the cause of which she did not imagine4 ,autumn was passing1 however1 and she could no longer frame excuses for his absence4 ,he must return home4 ,as he was returning in the boat from ,lyons1 he contemplated the prospects before him4 ,he had chafed for an active life1 and destiny was compelling him to fold his wings in the nest from which he had been eager to escape4 ,now1 in his exhaustion1 he was willing to give up1 hoping soon to die4 ,i was convinced1 says he1 that in those months of love1 of delirium and of grief1 my heart had exhausted all the delights and bitternesses of a long life2 that ,i had nothing more than for some months more to bury the memory of ,julie under the ashes of my heart2 and that the angel whose steps ,i had followed in thought into another life would soon call me to shorten my absence and begin the eternal love4 ,the feeling that this was sure1 now gave me comfort and enabled me to accept with patience the interval which ,i believed would be a short one between the parting and the reunion4 ,when the boat arrived at ,mcon1 ,lamartine saw nobody at the landing to welcome him4 ,but as he picked up his valise he found himself suddenly embraced and almost smothered by the caresses of a dog4 ,it was ,azor1 the same that had so abruptly broken up his ,ossianic interview1 seven years before1 with ,lucy1 on the terrace4 ,it was necessary to give him a strap of the valise to hold to keep him from getting under the feet of other travellers4 ,the ,chevalier1 his father1 however1 was only a little way off4 ,he was watching with an opera-glass to see whether the dog had found his son4 ,he now conducted him home by the most frequented streets1 as if to show him to those whom he met4 ,the dog had already gone to announce him1 and ,lamartine found his mother and sisters at the door4 ,the house had been recently purchased for a winter residence4 ,the mother had besought this outlay for the sake of her five daughters1 to be able to provide them with tutors and governesses and to introduce them advantageously into society4 ,the ,chevalier lost no time in showing his son the various rooms and conveniences and bringing him to the apartment for himself4 ,lamartine had retired for the evening when his mother came into the room4 ,she had noted his profound depression and now silently caressed him4 ,who would have told me1 said she1 that in twenty-two years ,i would see my child blighted in the vigor of his soul and heart1 and his countenance enshrouded in a secret grief8 ,then1 forbearing to enquire further1 she explained the embarrassed condition of the family4 ,their property1 always small1 had been greatly reduced by the expenses of his education1 travels1 and wayward adventures4 ,i do not mention this to reproach you1 said she2 you know that if my tears could have been changed into gold for you1 ,i would have put it into your hands4 ,the purchase of the house1 the saving of money to furnish dowries for his sisters1 and bad harvests had narrowed their circumstances4 ,his father had worried at the thought of leaving his children without a patrimony2 and though he had taken great delight in them in their tender years1 he reproached himself now for their existence4 ,what she could do to help1 she had done4 ,in their various exigencies she had been generously helped by ,madame ,paradis1 their neighbor4 ,this lady had done this from affection1 only stipulating that their father should not know4 ,she had furnished the money for ,lamartine's expenses4 ,i had hoped1 she continued1 that your father's family would perceive the craving for activity which is wasting your youth1 and be prompted to the outlay necessary to enable you to enter and go through with the preparatory course for an administrative or diplomatic career4 ,i have reasoned with them1 prayed1 conjured1 wept1 humbled myself before them as it is glorious and agreeable for a mother to humiliate herself for her son4 ,it is in vain4 ,as he was to be the heir to their estates1 they saw no necessity for him to desire or be ambitious for an active career beyond their sphere of life4 ,hence her pleading had only brought harsh words and unkind feeling toward herself without doing him any service4 ,if ,providence had granted her wish she would have made use of every opportunity to open for him a larger horizon1 and a career worthy of him4 ,but he must wait4 ,she also asked him to make her his only confidant4 ,a complaint to his father would drive him to despair1 because he could not help4 ,accept this obscure and unoccupied life for a few years1 she pleaded4 ,i will pray ,god to move the hearts of your uncles and aunts1 and to open for my son that field of activity1 extent1 glory and happy fortune1 which he has permitted a mother to desire for such a son as you4 ,to such an appeal ,lamartine could only acquiesce4 ,the life upon which he thus entered has had many counterparts4 ,the older uncle gave law to the whole family as its recognized head4 ,he and his nephew had many angry encounters4 ,the mother would endeavor anxiously to reconcile them4 ,the ,chevalier1 bearing in mind the interest of all his children1 remained neutral4 ,the uncle1 regarding ,alphonse as his prospective successor1 desired him to remain quietly at home1 cultivate science1 apply himself to agriculture and domestic economy1 and in time become the head of a family in the province4 ,lamartine acknowledged that such a career would have been the most natural and happy4 ,but1 he adds1 everyone when coming into the world has his allotment marked out in his nature4 ,this career was not for me1 and my uncle had not been able to read the fact in my eyes4 ,his life at ,mcon that winter was as monotonous as that of monks in a cloister4 ,he spent the forenoons in his room with his books and dog4 ,dinner was at noon2 and after that all assembled at the mansion of the uncle4 ,this was a season to be dreaded4 ,his mother was then subjected to reproaches and remonstrances from every one for every trifling fault of her children4 ,the aunts seemed to regard them as their own1 and actually loved their brother's wife2 but they desired to exercise the rights of motherhood without the burdens4 ,sometimes she would repel their attacks1 but oftener she only wept4 ,then would follow explanations1 excuses and caresses2 and so it would go1 only to be resumed the next day4 ,she was a woman superior to them all1 high-spirited and dignified2 but the future interest of her children depended on their good-will1 and for this reason she was submissive4 ,we called this the ,hour of ,martyrdom1 says ,lamartine1 and we sought to make it up to her by redoubling our tenderness after we came out4 ,in the afternoon1 she helped the tutors with her daughters1 or herself received visitors4 ,her house and discourse were to her neighbors an attraction far exceeding that of the majestic austerity at the great house1 the ,hotel de ,lamartine4 ,the ,chevalier would go out to visit some former comrade1 or one of the older inhabitants1 when they would amuse themselves with playing at checkers1 backgammon or ,boston4 ,lamartine himself would repair to his room1 or walk out with his dog in the paths that intersected the fields behind the ,alms ,house4 ,there were grand views in the distance1 but he only gazed on the ,alps as the prisoner looks on the wall beyond which he has tasted of sunshine1 love and freedom4 ,he also visited a comrade of his father's at the place4 ,the man was unable to use his limbs1 and kept himself cheerful by working as a jeweler and repairer of watches4 ,lamartine helped him and became daily a welcome visitor4 ,the leading families of ,mcon cultivated social relations1 and there was a drawing-room party somewhere every night4 ,lamartine accompanied his mother and sisters1 but made his escape before diversions began4 ,at his uncle's1 however1 it was different4 ,the visitors included the most eminent men of the district1 diplomats1 scholars and others of distinction4 ,ten of these1 with his uncle1 organized the ,academy of ,mcon4 ,it held meetings in the library which were usually attended by thirty or forty members4 ,papers were presented on subjects of importance1 social1 industrial or scientific4 ,lamartine was admitted to membership despite his youth at the proposition of his uncle4 ,he delivered his first discourse upon the ,advantages ,derived from ,interchange of ,ideas between ,peoples by ,means of ,literature4 ,years after he burned this paper in disgust at its commonplace character4 ,one of the most interesting members of this ,academy1 ,m4 de ,larnaud1 he describes as a ,universal ,dictionary in a human form1 all the ashes of the ,alexandrian ,library contained in the skull of a living man4 ,m4 de ,larnaud1 he declares1 knew everything and impassioned everything4 ,he had engaged in the ,revolution in #aghi with the ardor of a delirium1 but after the massacre of the ,tenth of ,august1 he turned his sympathies to the victims4 ,he was intimate with the ,girondins1--above all with ,madame ,roland and ,vergniaud--and he accepted heartily their doctrine of a free ,republic which should be wise and pure4 ,he did not mourn their fate on the scaffold which was their pedestal for history1 but he mourned that vote which they gave for the death of the king to save the people4 ,although a nation is often saved by a martyrdom1 he knew that it is never saved by a crime4 ,m4 de ,larnaud had no less enthusiasm for poetry and literature than for politics4 ,he was a comrade of ,rouget de ,lisle1 the author of the ,marsellaise ,hymn2 he had taken part at sittings of the ,academies2 he was a member of all the ,cercles2 he followed all the ,courts1 visited all the ,salns1 attended all the theatres1 absorbing all that was knowable1 all that pertained to the two orders of things4 ,he remembered everything and would tell it with a manner and gesture that made the hearer understand and behold it all4 ,everything--antiquity1 past history and present--was to be learned from him4 ,he was quick to perceive the bent of ,lamartine4 ,he visited the young man in his chamber and discoursed familiarly with him1 as though both were of the same age and plane of intelligence4 ,he did not venture1 however1 to speak with like freedom in the drawing-room in presence of the uncle1 the pious aunts1 and the various classes of visitors4 ,but in young ,lamartine's chamber he would display his old-time enthusiasm for the great men and great achievements at the beginning of the ,revolution before the period of the ascendancy of the populace1 the ,commune of ,paris1 and the ,terror4 ,the philosopher was again manifest in him under the simulacrum of the man of the world1 and he denounced the ,imperial rgime of ,bonaparte with fierceness4 ,from him ,lamartine derived the conception of the scenes1 the men and characters which he set forth so admirably in the ,history of the ,girondists4 ,his friendship remained constant till his death4 ,one day as ,lamartine was walking in the street his dog made the acquaintance of another dog belonging to a physician of the place4 ,the owner was ,m4 de ,ronot1 who had been a fellow-student at ,college4 ,warm friendship now sprang up between them4 ,lamartine pays him this tribute3 ,i was often absent from the land of my birth1 especially after death had blighted all the roots of my family2 but ,i knew that there was one who watched for my return1 who followed with his eye my adverse fortunes1 who fought against the envies1 hatreds and calumnies that grovelled on the soil of our homestead--alas1 about our gravestones1 and who received with delight everything in my life that was good fortune1 and with grief everything that was sad4 ,he died many years afterward with the name of ,lamartine on his lips4 ,it was at the period when ,lamartine was in deepest adversity1 and abandoned by the many who in brighter times had ardently professed their friendship4 ,when the time came in spring for the family to go back to ,milly1 the whole family welcomed this modest abode as an asylum4 ,the mother resumed the instructing of her daughters1 and her visits to the sick and poor4 ,lamartine often went with her4 ,he always found living in a city to be intolerable1 but he brought his melancholy with him4 ,he renewed his intimacy with the ,abb ,dumont at the garden of the parsonage1 and gradually recovered health and spirits4 ,translations of ,byron's poems appeared that season in ,french journals4 ,lamartine was prompted to endeavors of similar character4 ,that autumn he wrote several of his ,meditations1 and read portions of them to his father4 ,the old ,chevalier1 who knew nothing of the new school of poetry1 was deeply affected1 but feared to utter praise1 lest it should be from parental partiality4 ,the second winter at the new house in ,mcon was passed like the first4 ,lamartine had no liking for the social entertainments4 ,when ,lent came1 he left home and spent the spring and summer with his other uncle1 the ,abb ,lamartine1 at ,d',urcy in ,upper ,burgundy4 ,this uncle had been compelled1 by the accident of having been a second son1 to take priest's orders4 ,thus interdicted from having a family of his own he bestowed his affection richly upon his younger brother and children4 ,he considered them as his own1 and ,lamartine was recognized as his heir4 ,they spent the summer and autumn in their younger years1 at his patriarchal mansion1 and he took an actual part in their education4 ,it was here that ,lamartine acquired his passion for life in the country4 ,the abb had spent his noviciate at ,paris1 and mingled in society in the time of ,louis ,,xv4 ,he was a man of the world rather than of the ,church4 ,relinquishing the priestly functions at the ,revolution1 he now lived by himself on his share of the paternal estate1 a ,homeric life1 hermit-like1 as a philosopher and cultivator of the soil4 ,his housekeeper1 herself formerly a nun1 persuaded him to purchase dogs and a horse for his nephew4 ,lamartine had always been beloved by all the domestics1 and his uncle1 who was the most affectionate of men1 treated him as a personal friend rather than as a kinsman4 ,one afternoon in the latter part of ,july1 he was riding back from a jaunt in the neighboring forest when a letter-carrier delivered him a note from two ,roman ladies at an inn at ,pont-de-,pany4 ,his uncle1 in whom humor was a prominent quality1 demanded at once to know the mystery4 ,there must be no mystery with me1 said he4 ,the heroes of a romance always need a confidant1 and ,i have known both parts in my time4 ,he continued his badinage1 promising to be discreet as well as faithful2 but ,lamartine1 unable to endure it1 protested that he could not form any new attachment4 ,that linden-tree is older than you1 the uncle replied4 ,i have cut it five times in twenty years1 and it has more sap and branches now than when ,i came here4 ,burn it at the root1 ,lamartine retorted in desperation1 and then see whether it will spring up again4 ,it was an adventure of a new character4 ,the two ladies1 the princess ,regina di ---- and her aunt1 had been commended to his good offices by the ,count ,saluce de ----1 a ,breton nobleman belonging to an emigrant family1 then living at ,rome4 ,he had come temporarily to ,france and took service in the ,royal ,guard1 there forming an intimate friendship with ,lamartine4 ,the princess was a maiden wife of sixteen who had been forced against her will into a marriage ceremony with an elderly kinsman1 and had fled with her aunt to ,france4 ,the count was her lover1 and had been arrested as he was about to accompany her4 ,lamartine had been apprised of all this before by letters from his friend1 and now complied faithfully with his wishes by finding the two fugitives a residence at ,noyon near ,geneva4 ,meanwhile a suit was in progress for an annulment of the marriage4 ,some days afterward a letter came from the count apprising ,lamartine that this would not take place4 ,the princess was liable1 therefore1 to forfeit her property1 and upon her return to ,italy1 to be imprisoned in a convent4 ,the prince1 her husband1 who was old and infirm1 had desired the marriage only for the purpose of assuring her estate to his heirs4 ,he now offered1 if ,count ,saluce would not press the suit1 that he would cast a veil over what had passed1 and let her live with her grandmother in future4 ,this would spare her reputation and social position4 ,but ,saluce must go far away4 ,he decided to comply with the conditions1 and had already left ,italy for ,spain to join his uncle's regiment and embark for the ,philippine ,islands4 ,lamartine deplored the fatal necessity but felt himself obliged to approve the course taken by his friend4 ,yet ,regina had not been consulted1 and perhaps she would have chosen exile with him before freedom and fortune elsewhere4 ,certainly1 the count had constituted himself judge and sacrificing priest without consulting the victim1 but the sacrifice was commended by delicacy of sentiment1 by honor1 virtue1 even by love itself4 ,when ,lamartine met ,regina she read all in his face4 ,as she perused the letter she was seized with fury4 ,she denounced her lover as savage and cowardly1 not worthy of the least token of regard4 ,hurrying to her room1 she threw his letters and keepsakes out of the window and commanded her nurse to go and sink them in the lake2 that thus six months of love and delirium might be swallowed up4 ,the nurse fully reciprocated the sentiments of her mistress4 ,she saw no merit in such generosity as ,saluce had exhibited4 ,a ,roman would have gone to every extreme1 knowing love and nothing else4 ,three days passed before the young princess made her appearance4 ,she had become more calm4 ,she told ,lamartine that she was now undeceived2 what she had thought she loved was a phantom that had vanished4 ,she was turning her regard upon him4 ,his unflagging kindness and assiduity had affected her4 ,but susceptible as he might be1 the memory of his own lost one1 and his friendship for ,saluce1 were intervening4 ,finally1 however1 upon learning that ,lamartine would be in ,paris the coming winter1 she declared her purpose to be there likewise4 ,her uncles had come for her1 and she returned with them to ,rome4 ,one of them afterward accompanied her and her grandmother to ,paris1 and ,lamartine met them there the coming winter4 ,he had now resolved to try his fortune once more4 ,it was declared by ,charles ,fourier1 that when ,god implanted a desire in a human soul it was his promise of its fruition4 ,lamartine was now to realize its verity4 #a ,in the ,meditations1 ,lamartine names an ,elvire who has been conjectured to have been the same person4 ,if you examine a man that has been well-disciplined and purified by philosophy1 you will find nothing that is unsound1 false1 or foul in him4 ,the noble delight in the noble2 the base do not2 the bee goes to the lotus from the wood2 not so the frog1 though living in the same lake4 --,gems from the ,east4 ,,point ,,loma ,,and ,,its ,,legend4 ,,by ,,frank ,m4 ,,pierce4 ,how describe its indescribable beauties3 the broad expanse of ocean2 land-locked bay1 with craft of war and commerce riding on its peaceful bosom2 nestling city2 sunlit1 fruitful valleys1 cut by sparkling1 snow-fed streams2 majestic mountain range with snow-capped peaks1 like giant fingers heavenward pointing--all touched by soft and vitalizing breezes--one vast ,titanic picture1 overwhelming self1 while ,soul1 in fitting raiment stands visible1 a ,god4 ,in retrospective thought1 seated on its rock-ribbed1 element-defying battlements1 ,i muse upon the ,legend3 ,that here the wise ones of ,lemuria--now ocean-covered--reared a stately edifice1 a temple dedicated to the ,gods of ,light1 wherein they taught her worthy youth the simple laws of life eternal3 ,that here the gods touched hands with men and gave to them rich stores of knowledge and of wisdom in such measure as they could use unselfishly3 ,that here men living for the soul of things made earth a heaven1 themselves gods1 conscious of their oneness with the ,father 7like their modern prototype1 the fearless ,nazarene73 ,that from the temple-dome-crowned ,point1 standing like mystic virgin1 old yet ever young--never yielding to the dark waters' fond embrace when all to ,westward sank in one vast cataclysm--shone to all the world a quenchless1 pure1 white flame to light the way for mariners on ocean's waters1 and on the sea of thought1 that all might see and live3 ,that once1 when darkness filled the earth and men went blindly searching for the light and found it not1 then the great ,teacher from the temple--filled with pity and compassion--went forth to save the lost1--leaving the temple and its sacred light in care of trusted ones1 charged on their lives to keep and hold its precincts inviolate till her return2 their inspiration gone--careless and faithless to their sacred trust--the light went out and they in darkness perished2 the temple--refuge for the good and wise--was sacked and leveled to the earth from sight of men3 ,but caverned underneath 7the ,legend runs7 stand guarding genii1 giants grim1 fairies1 gnomes and sprites1 to hold the portals closed by pitfalls1 ocean tides1 dire calamities and death1 'gainst venturous ones and the faithless guardians lingering near the whispering1 moaning caverns by the sea--till their ,queen returns to their release3 ,that in some coming age when men1 grown weary1 heartsick1 hopeless1 wandering in the trackless waste1 shall face again the rising ,sun in search of ancient ,wisdom and the ,truth1 then the great ,teacher will again appear in human guise1 among her own--welcomed by the wise-grown1 faithful watchers1 rejected and reviled by those who faithless in the past have been--to rear upon the ruins of the old1 a new and grander ,temple1 dedicated to all that lives2 and in its pure white marble dome to fix a light--symbolic of regenerate man--whose penetrating rays shall reach to lowest depths to light the ceaseless upward march of evolution to the ,heaven on ,earth--the ,universal ,brotherhood of ,peace and ,good-,will1 made perfect through the travail1 agony and blood of man1 redeemed from ,,self4 ,,evolution ,,and ,,involution4 ,,by ,h4 ,a4 ,,freeman4 ,metaphysically considered1 evolution is ,nature's process of unfolding and bringing about her changes and developments4 ,it goes on its way irresistibly and taken as a whole moves in orderly routine4 ,this is not always obvious1 but the exceptions are only apparently such4 ,the fault lies in our lack of ability to observe all the facts and conditions4 ,if we could investigate fully we should find that all apparent hitches are balanced or offset by an advance in some other direction and that there has been and can be no check or disorder in the process of evolution4 ,whatever deflects the course or changes the character of an evolution does not necessarily hinder it1 and if it seems to stop still that is only a question of the point of view4 ,the people of a race1 or nation1 or a community may deteriorate physically1 intellectually1 or in their commercial activity1 but that does not prove that their development has come to an end4 ,it only marks a cessation of progress along certain special lines4 ,the ,american ,indians are practically extinct1 and it may appear that their race evolution has stopped4 ,but that would be taking note of only one aspect of their condition4 ,if we observe that they have decreased in ferocity1 diminished in numbers and sunk to the commonplace grade of hard working farmers we must agree that their evolution does not proceed along romantic lines as it did in the days of ,fenimore ,cooper4 ,but the few that remain may be more useful for the world's upbuilding than were all the savage hordes that ever started out on the war path to exterminate each other4 ,numbers are not essential to a healthy evolution4 ,china with its starving myriads is not a high example of progress4 ,the variations and fluctuations that make themselves visible in evolution are like ripples4 ,we should never notice them if we took a broader view4 ,evolution does not go stiffly and solidly forward like a self-propelled wall of masonry4 ,it is more like the resistless ebb and flow of the incoming tide4 ,one ripple overwhelms or effaces another and a curling breaker leaps up from behind them and sprays the shore far in advance of the main body of invading waters4 ,evolution reaches out similarly1 now advancing1 now retreating in unconsidered wavelets1 always gaining1 always effacing the old with the new1 and inevitably dominating the entire situation at last4 ,the ebb tide affords a symbol of ,involution which lays bare the way for another era of flood1 so that every drop in the ocean taking its turn may ultimately rise to its highest mark of attainment4 ,involution is usually described as a sort of compensatory process1 cordinate with evolution1 though not co-incident with it4 ,it is regarded as a return swing of the pendulum of evolution and is sometimes crudely illustrated by comparing the two to the corresponding halves of a circle matched together so as to form a completed ring or hoop4 ,but this symbol though impressive is misleading1 for involution matched with evolution can not bring about any condition of finality4 ,if that were possible evolution would end in extinction--and extinction is unthinkable4 ,the pairing of the two processes does not complete a circle4 ,one does not match the other and neither can undo the other's work4 ,if there could be a counter-action between them1 each would efface the results of the other1 as soon as its hour of activity began4 ,for illustration one may consider the progress of a bud which in due course of evolution unfolds into a rose fully expanded4 ,that rose does not refold and become again a bud4 ,and if it did1 that would not be involution4 ,it would be only retrogression4 ,involution does not follow upon the heels of evolution to match its movements with opposing influences4 ,it doesn't interfere at all4 ,if it did there would be no unfolding of ,nature's plans1 for all her efforts would cancel each other4 ,doubtless the two processes work towards the same result in obedience to a systematic divine idea and purpose1 and1 not leading up to any finality1 they form a cycle rather than a circle and may be best pictured as a continuous spiral and not as a completed hoop4 ,it would then be seen that involution and evolution succeed each other in rotation as the night follows day and the day gives place to night4 ,each period of one followed by the other forms a coil in the spiral4 ,and the spiral is continuous1 being itself only one coil in a greater cycle which1 in its turn1 forms part of a still more extensive series of coils4 ,and thus they go on to infinity1 for they can never reach a limit4 ,and the processes of our involution and evolution are only coils of a cycle that has gone on forever and they will continue to form new coils to all eternity4 ,but the contemplation of the present coil in which we find ourselves involved is quite confusing enough for it extends back farther than our comprehension can grasp and is still very far from finished4 ,it will never be complete until we have all reached our limit of attainment1 and that is yet a long way ahead of us4 ,it is obvious that these mighty processes lead to some ultimate object1 and that they could never have been started into operation without a reason4 ,the ultimate object is easily found4 ,it is quite evidently progress4 ,and the reason seems by analogy to be similar to that which dominates every living thing in the ,universe--the desire to expand1 to create1 to perpetuate4 ,this desire seems to have impelled that incomprehensible ,power which is back of all life and expression to make itself manifest4 ,a ,breath of itself took the form of matter and in obedience to the immutable law of compensation sought at once to return to its original exalted condition4 ,that descent into matter was ,involution4 ,the regeneration1 the re-ascent to the original purity is ,evolution4 ,the creative ,consciousness awoke to a desire for manifestation and produced from its thought1 substance4 ,then were set in motion the forces through whose operations substance took on form and living organisms appeared4 ,the degradation of that ,spiritual ,essence into a condition of matter was ,involution4 ,it was a degradation or descent because it was a change4 ,no change could have exalted it1 so the altered condition was a descent4 ,the process of regeneration1 the work of purification from the stain of material existence began at once and still goes on4 ,and that is evolution4 ,when man began to assume domination over the other products of evolution and became a reasoning1 responsible creature1 that was evidence that he is the medium through which matter is to be uplifted to its former spiritual condition4 ,in other words1 it is a certainty that matter reaches its highest development in man and that the next step beyond the physical man is the divine man--the man of pure spirituality practically unsullied by matter4 ,all the processes of evolution lead to the supremacy of the physical man over all other material development1 and as he continues to advance he will inevitably reach a condition so exalted as to be virtually divine while still living in the flesh4 ,such men exist even to-day and have been known in all ages4 ,they are those who occasionally appear as ,saviours and ,messiahs4 ,they are the pioneer wavelets which spray the shore in advance of the incoming tide4 ,when man reaches that point of perfection that will free him from the material or physical life forever1 his evolution is complete and involution may begin again upon a new world as it has done countless millions of times before and will continue to do to all eternity4 ,we cannot of course comprehend why the ,divine ,consciousness has arranged all this stupendous machinery for the mere sake of becoming manifest4 ,we cannot assume that it is for any reason that we could understand even though it were revealed to us4 ,but we may wonder less perhaps when we consider that time and space are nothing in actual fact1 and the immensity of our universe and the tremendous stretches of time that paralyze all thought of reckoning are but trifles not to be considered in contemplating the ,infinite4 ,our entire solar system doesn't make a speck in space and the age of the world cannot be reckoned1 for time has no value1 no existence in the super-material world4 ,it is frequently urged by sceptics that to an all powerful consciousness it should be easy to assume a personal character without employing the complicated process of producing mankind and awaiting humanity's slow growth to a divine perfection4 ,but when it comes to preparing plans and specifications for a better and simpler method they have never shown ability superior to the divine thought4 ,leaving out the consideration of time and the immensity of the finite world1 which are of no importance to the ,supreme ,architect1 the plan seems simple enough4 ,there was a divine desire for expression4 ,the ,supreme was alone and unmanifest4 ,there was consciousness but no knowledge1 for there was nothing to know4 ,the impulse to ,be1 produced the world1 every atom of which is part of the ,creator that produced it4 ,the world is synthesized in man1 for man holds in his physical body the essence of everything that is in the world4 ,there is nothing1 mineral1 vegetable1 animal1 solid1 fluid or gaseous that has not its place in man's organization4 ,man is pressing forward1 evolving to a condition of purity that shall make him perfect and divine1 a ,god enriched with the knowledge gained from numberless lives on earth4 ,he becomes again a spark of the ,supreme1 but individualized and omniscient4 ,and thus is the divine purpose accomplished and the divine impersonal self made divinely manifest4 ,whether this be the true theory or not cannot be determined by any process of reasoning4 ,the ,finite mind is unable to comprehend the ,infinite4 ,we cannot analyze the act of the super-mundane power or find a reason that we can understand and prove by mental progress4 ,so therefore we can not trace involution even as we can evolution1 for it is not of this plane4 ,whatever we note that seems to us to be involution is only some variation of the other4 ,it has to do with our material progress while involution is a product of the impulse of a consciousness beyond our comprehension4 ,we may then consider involution briefly as the descent of spirit into a material condition and evolution as the refinement of matter into spirit4 ,we may safely believe that under this stupendous plan the present is not the first and will not be the last cycle1 but that they stretch their never ending spirals in both directions without limit4 ,whether or not there ever was a beginning to this endless coil of cycles of involution and evolution is beyond our feeble comprehension4 ,logic and reason are but the dull weapons of conquest over problems of the ,finite1 and are entirely too crude to be used with confidence in giving battle to the mysteries of the ,infinite4 ,only the intuitions can help us beyond the boundaries of the super-material world and they tell us that there never was a beginning to the things which are and that there will never be an end4 ,this condition of ,being1 without ever a time of actual commencing1 is paradoxical and confusing to the mind and we cannot easily realize that although apparently impossible it is true4 ,but it is only one of many similar contradictions that attend upon the ,contemplation of ,infinity4 ,we cannot even comprehend a beginning to the present cycle of our existence4 ,the birth of this world is lost in the misty obscurity of the infinite ,past and is as hopelessly beyond us as is the record of the countless myriads of similar creations which preceded it4 ,it is therefore of little value to attempt to fix an era from which to begin tracing the evolution of man from the irresponsible1 mindless monster that archaic teachings describe him to have been before he assumed conscious domination over the other creatures of this world4 ,and it is equally vain to seek for information regarding the various changes through which he arrived at even that primitive condition of being only a mass of inert semi-conscious matter4 ,perhaps in this as in the other aspects of the transmigration of the ,divine into the ,finite1 there never was any beginning4 ,the ,vedanta1 which is that phase of ,indian ,philosophy that treats specially on this subject1 says that the world proceeded from an inscrutable principle1 darkness1 neither existent nor non-existent and from one that breathed without afflation1 other than which there was nothing1 beyond it nothing4 ,according to the ,vedanta there is but one substance or reality immutable and eternal1 the supreme spirit1 the impersonal ,self1 the spiritual absolute atman--and that of course is summed up in the idea of ,deity4 ,science1 which professes to reject all theories that cannot be proven1 suggests tentatively that all of nature's innumerable products have evolved from the result of a fortuitous combination of unconscious causes that produced a beginning4 ,but there should be something beyond mere accident in the movements of non-intelligent forces4 ,there must always be a first cause even for a beginning and that first cause cannot be an accident4 ,that should be an uncomfortable theory for those who are scientific enough to believe it1 for they have no guarantee against other accidents of ,nature4 ,they can never feel secure against some awkward occurrence that might counteract that initial commingling of forces and restore this world to its original condition of nothingness4 ,we read of various vibrations that shiver into the production of light1 color1 heat1 sound1 power1 electricity and even the life principle1 but these vibrations are not even said to be self-produced4 ,there has never been a theory satisfactory to the intuitions--which are the most accurate of all our truth finders1 except that of an universal1 ,conscious ,self1 impersonal but all pervasive1 that is the ,cause1 the ,beginning and the ultimate ,attainment of everything4 ,the only theory that agrees with the intuitions without offending the reasoning perceptions should offer the safest foundation upon which to build a philosophy4 ,it is therefore not remarkable that ages ago the sages of the ,orient1 men who were fitted by training and inherited faculties for metaphysical contemplation1 elaborated a philosophy based upon the belief in an impersonal ,first ,cause that seeks personality only through involving ,spirit in matter and evolving back to ,spirit4 ,tinted with the results of that experience1 ,spirit1 they believe1 becomes self-conscious and individualized by its contact with a life or lives of manifestation4 ,evidently it can never be absolutely stainless again4 ,it has exchanged entire purity for knowledge and self-consciousness4 ,therefore1 man1 who is the highest attainment of this evolution1 can never be infinitely perfect1 but can ever more and more approximate to perfection4 ,he can never again be absorbed and swallowed up and engulfed in absolute divinity4 ,he will never become entirely ,divine in the sense of being re-absorbed into the unrecognizable ,all-consciousness1 for that would extinguish all the effects of his earth experiences and his long pilgrimage would be a profitless waste of time and toil4 ,he has become an individualized conscious being1 less than ,deity1 but by reason of his completed evolution he is relatively a ,god to us4 ,he may therefore reach up to the ,infinite even now1 and can also extend a hand down to ,earth to help us on our upward climb4 ,innumerable divine men have been reborn and have dwelt among us to teach us how to live4 ,even in comparatively modern times we have a line of such whose example and teachings have helped forward our evolution and made it easier for us4 ,from ,zoroaster and ,buddha and ,jesus and others have come revelations that justify the theory of man's perfectibility through evolution and as we can trace the growth of all matter up to its culmination in humanity1 the divine plan seems to stand revealed1 and our ultimate destiny is plainly outlined4 ,the method of evolution1 like everything else in ,nature1 seems entirely a process of compensations4 ,we gain and renounce2 we take on higher qualities and drop the meaner characteristics4 ,we advance by such methods as we can command as we go along4 ,higher ideals being reached1 we look upward for still loftier points of attainment4 ,in the prehistoric stages of our development1 while pure physicality dominated us1 we asserted our supremacy by superior strength or speed4 ,further along a cunning mentality gave us a wider range of power4 ,still later we have grown into wisdom1 and as we near the end we shall discard all the physical desires1 the tastes and appetites1 the hopes and ambitions1 the affections and passions that tie us to the earth life1 and take on instead the finer spiritual attributes that are inseparable from the higher planes of existence4 ,the severing of the earth desires marks the end of the process of evolution of spirit from matter4 ,what follows that we may infer from analogy4 ,the process of unfolding doubtless continues on planes of which we have no conception1 but obviously need not dread to encounter4 ,of course we have moved slowly forward in our various stages of development from whatever we were before we took on human qualities up to our present degree of attainment4 ,it is not hard to believe that we have developed superior understanding and the other higher attributes of humanity only as our growing needs and opening opportunities have called for them4 ,the evolution of species and the laws governing the development of physical organs as they became necessary for the growth and preservation of the infinite variety of living things have been a favorite study for materialistic scientists for the past century4 ,more than that1 long ago the learned ,jean ,baptiste ,lamarck formulated four propositions that are now accepted as self-evident4 ,first4 ,life1 by its proper forces1 tends continually to increase the volume of every body possessing it1 and to enlarge its parts up to a limit which it brings about4 ,this covers the phenomenon of growth to maturity4 ,second4 ,the production of a new organ in an animal body results from the supervention of a new want continuing to make itself felt1 and a new movement which this want gives birth to and encourages4 ,this is shown in the long neck of the giraffe1 which enables him to feed on the tender top leaves of tall tropical plants1 and in the camel's hump which supplies him with vigor during long intervals without feeding1 and the receptacle for water1 which enables him to traverse long stretches of barren and streamless lands4 ,third4 ,the development of organs and their force of action are constantly in ratio to the employment of those organs4 ,the kangaroo1 a large animal carrying its young for safety in a natural pouch1 stands erect and never uses its fore legs in walking4 ,it leaps forward in prodigious bounds1 propelled by the muscular power of its tail1 which has grown and developed beyond even the hind legs in strength2 while the fore legs have dwindled to insignificant size and importance4 ,fourth4 ,all which has been laid down or changed in the organization of individuals in the course of their life1 is conserved by generation and transmitted to the new individuals which proceed from those which have undergone these changes4 ,this is because evolution carries us constantly beyond certain needs and progress does not let us go back to those needs1 neither in our own persons nor in those of our posterity4 ,man and beast alike have only and always such organs as they require and no others4 ,the laws of heredity are not whimsical or recalcitrant1 and the changes brought about by evolution are carried forward by them in strict obedience to its demands4 ,recognizing this fact1 but building from a false premise1 the followers of ,darwin search for a link to connect humanity with the tailless apes of earlier periods1 assuming that man was developed from them1 and that the ape is the link between mankind and the next lower order of being4 ,there is absolutely nothing in support of this theory beyond a resemblance in the physical conformation4 ,and that is far more likely to result from the ape being a descendant of prehistoric man4 ,all these speculators stop short at any valuable foundation on which to build theories4 ,they see in evolution only the generation and development of living organisms and the reason or cause of the infinite variety of form1 color and habits4 ,kant and ,laplace theorized vaguely on the formation of the solar system from a gaseous condition to its present character1 but they shared the perplexity of all biological thinkers when they endeavored to peer behind the mechanical beginning in search of a ,first ,cause4 ,it is probable that even the mechanical beginning had never a first hour or day or year or era4 ,and so ,science1 bound and boxed up in materialism1 observes the growth and development of species and placidly stops at that1 having begun with a guess and ended with--a bundle of axiomatic conclusions4 ,but the philosophy of the ancients1 backed up by the teachings of the divine men who from time to time have come back to us1 and endorsed by our own inner convictions1 tells us that evolution is the concerted effort of all the atoms that comprise the ,universe to return to a condition not recognized by science--the condition of spirit which is the ultimate aim of everything4 ,and every infinitesimal atom is alive and has a consciousness of its own4 ,they cluster together and form living organisms1 developing and progressing in even pace with those organisms1 flying off into space as their work goes on and rushing together to build up some other organism4 ,had we ultra-microscopic vision we could see them streaming from us continually and being replaced by corresponding streams of new atoms4 ,and each one of these has its own divine spark4 ,it is a living entity4 ,they abide with us according to our attraction1 some shunning us1 others preferring us4 ,evil people attract such atoms as have just come from others of like disposition and leave their impress upon them and gain nothing good from them4 ,every evil thought taints every atom of the stream that we contact with at the time4 ,they advance in their evolutions no faster than does humanity and reach spirituality when we do and not sooner or later4 ,man arrives finally at this condition clothed in the spiritual body of which theologians speak without any idea or comprehension of its true nature4 ,all who would shun contact with the particles that emanate from vile people must live the life that repels such atoms4 ,those who live a life of pure thought and fraternal consideration draw towards them atoms of such quality as makes their personality pleasant and attractive and their bearing gracious4 ,no pure life builds up a vile personality4 ,there are other ways to recognize traits of character besides the mere facial expression4 ,even scientists know that4 ,it is therefore evident that every one should shun evil thought just as he would any other deadly and destructive infection4 ,it rests with every man to carry forward with him on his upward journey all the material that goes toward his own physical composition4 ,there is no one who has not attracted all grades of atoms to him1 and it is well to bear in mind that they are the very same that have formed the bodies of all the population of the world1 man and beast1 since life first was4 ,there has been no addition1 no diminution4 ,nothing in nature is ever destroyed4 ,nothing ever ceases to be4 ,there is no place to banish material4 ,it must be spiritualized and we must be the medium4 ,and1 therefore1 it is no poetic fancy to say that we are of one common clay and that humanity is all one4 ,every man1 at every moment1 is building and rebuilding himself of the same materials1 particle for particle as have built up every other man4 ,prince or pauper1 saint or demon1 society flower or foul tramp1 we are all of the very same dust and we can determine which sort we shall use for our own bodies4 ,it is not a question of proximity4 ,it is entirely one of sympathy and character and affinity4 ,we evolve as fast as our thoughts and conduct permit1 and we purify our souls and our bodies alike and together4 ,if we recognize the brotherhood of humanity we need no reminding to see that it is our duty to ourselves--to our personal selves as well as to our spiritual selves1 to help to make cleaner and sweeter the whole world through our own mental1 moral and the resultant spiritual cleanness4 ,that will not hurry evolution much in each separate instance1 but by the contagion of sympathy and the dynamic power of thought these beneficent1 physical atoms can be attracted to us and we can carry about with us their gentle influence for good4 ,that is the secret of the curative influence of sweetsouled people upon those who are sick in mind or body1 and if people could understand these influences as they are and value them justly we should soon see a happier world with less sorrow1 less injustice1 less sickness and a far wider recognition of the material as well as spiritual truth that brotherhood is an universal fact in ,nature1 and that our evolution can never be complete until all realize it and live accordingly4 ,,the ,,cycle ,,of ,,life4 ,,by ,,mary ,,konopnitsky4 ,,translated ,,from ,,the ,,polish ,,by ,v4 ,a4 ,h4 ,,prelude4 ,in the new morn1 that dawns above the world1 ,i put aside the black and sombre harp1 that plays and sings so sadly4 ,for1 from the ocean's farthest shore1 with the first daybreak blushes1 with the golden arrows of the sun1 there comes on rosy wings1 all radiant with fiery auroras1 a new song1 a bird of the arriving spring4 ,in the new morn1 that dawns above the world1 ,i stretch the golden strings1 ,i weave them from the day-beams1 ,i paint them with the iris dew4 ,for through the mould of sorrows1 there breaks the music of mountain waterfalls2 their vernal voice and chime now reach me from every rock and rill1 and a new flowery raiment is again woven for the earth4 ,in the new morn1 that dawns above the world1 ,i tie fresh golden cords of sound1--not for the pain1 not for the longing in the gloom1 not for the old complaint of the lonely heart4 ,i send them into the blue infinitudes unrestrained1 ,i launch them from globe to globe1 into the farthest space4 ,from star to star there glistens of my strings the golden grate4 ,i4 ,i am a ray4 ,the fount of ,light ,i cannot circumscribe4 ,and yet ,i fly4 ,through the dark nights ,i fly1 through stars and pallid moons2 ,i kindle ephemeral scintillations1 ,i send out my trembling light towards infinity's eternal flame1 from which shines forth the sun of all the suns4 ,and now ,i darken1 totter1 pale2 ,i lose my breath1 my hope1 ,i smoulder like a spark4 ,and lo6 again ,i energize my rays1 cast into endless skies2 again ,i illume myself and burn2 ,i reach forth1 ,i fly in space as a fiery ribbon from the spindle of the spirit4 ,now my tiny ray approaches the great sun2 it is already burning with eternity's first blush4 ,as an arrow ,i sling myself into the bright path1 illuminated by the rosy dawn4 ,i am a ray--the fount of ,light ,i cannot circumscribe4 ,let me1 then1 be encompassed by its dome4 ,,ii4 ,i am a spark of eternity2 and ,i am a pilgrim4 ,even to-day shall ,i pass away1 after a while1 after an hour's stroke1 together with the smoke of the shepherd's fire1 which writhes in blue strands over the forest in the eve1 and disappears in the tears of dew before the night4 ,even to-day shall ,i be divorced from that power1 which holds me here from the twilight to the twilight1 and the sun shall not see me more with his golden eyes4 ,i am a spark of eternity4 ,beyond the cold ashes ,i shall exist even to the dawn1 444 ,and then in my own embers shall ,i wax in brightness1 glow as gold and burn as ruby2 ,i shall pass through the grayness of the dust of this my bed1 and before the rosy dawn shall have bathed herself in dew1 before the sun shall have lifted his golden gaze from beyond the sea1 ,i shall strike into the flames of life4 ,,iii4 ,how many dawns1 how many twilights have ,i passed8 ,do ,i know it myself8 ,through how many gates of body and of soul have ,i entered into life1 as an eternal voyager1 who is born daily1 now here1 now there1 from the sleep of death1 in the earliest morn4 ,and then1 exhausted1 ,i departed to the ,west1 through the great twilight dusk1 which1 all blazing with gold and red as blood1 led me into the silent fields of blue1 upon the dreamy meadows of the moon1 all heaving with the beating of the wings of ,psyche-butterflies1 where ,i sought my sleep1 and my head leaning on eternity's great bosom1 ,i rested after a life and before a life4 ,,iv4 ,myself--the gate1 and myself--the path1 once only in this cycle have ,i issued from the ,divine ,light4 ,once only blew its breath for all bodies and souls1 once only has it in the morning of ,day opened its bosom of luminous archetypal thought1--and all subsequent myriads of forms1 before and now1 were sculptured by myself4 ,lo6 ,i emerge from the conflagration of blood2 ,i come in the likeness of a child1 ,i who am a lion1 crouching for the powers of the heavens and of the earth4 ,and ,i depart into the night1 through the blood and through the pain1 crouching as a shadow1 for the dawn and for the day4 ,after a time1 after a moment ,i increase in strength1 ,i spring up in the dust4 ,my germ of existence now feels hunger of life2 it attracts life's forces and lifts green blades above the grave4 ,the sun now warms it for a new day of its immortal labor4 ,v4 ,with no gift am ,i favored in my early hour4 ,all my radiance have ,i spun myself through many nights and shadows4 ,and all my powers upon the earth and in the heavens have ,i obtained from my own mystic depths4 ,every form ,i have1 it is of ages' toil1 it is an effort of many births1 a battle of many darkling deaths4 ,what light have ,i1 by a promethean labor1 through thousand lives1 spark by spark have ,i stolen it from the sun1 spark by spark have ,i seized it from the blushes of the morning4 ,the rosy coral of the dawns1 and lilies' whiteness have ,i plucked unseen in the gardens of the night from the silvery stars4 ,there is no color and no sound upon the waving meadows1 among the nests of eagles or of nightingales1 which through the ages1 in ruins' coldness and scorching heat of life ,i have not worked out from a laughter to a groan1--alive by my own self4 ,,vi4 ,and my right is to upwards grow through all the worlds4 ,and my right is to expand my heart through all the worlds4 ,in storms1 in silence ,i burst the bars of death's prisons1 and strike the metal of the all-awakening bell6 ,lightning of life1 and thunderbolt of life ,i let into the dark camera of death1 into the house of dust4 ,and touched by a spark of the spirit the dust explodes with life1 the soil opens1 waving the flowers of new spring1 and again breathes joyous in the splendor of the day4 ,,vii4 ,the soul-bird builds her cage herself1--with songs and flapping of her wings1--and enters then its gates all fascinated with the life4 ,but soon the winged guest1 from the infinity1 newcomer1 striking her prison's trellis-wall1 reddens her golden pinions with the ruby blood4 ,she hushes then in the dusky shadows of her house2 a longing eats her heart away for the freedom of the dawn4 ,till overcome with pain she strikes her breast against the walls and breaks the cage herself4 ,with songs and flapping of her wings1 from the dusk1 called life1 she flies away near to the gates of the eternal light4 ,,viii4 ,upon the dark and stormy roads ,i walk1 bare-footed1 poor2 ,i onward pass1 naked and hungry1 through life's cold and night2 only one light can brighten there my way and feed my strength1--the light of daring1 burning in my breast2 it helps me more than stars and more than moons4 ,no sun in heaven can kindle it in me1 but ,i must get it from myself1 striking my spirit against the hard experiences of life1 that the breast might catch the spark as does dry tinder when the steel strikes the flint4 ,,ix4 ,with me do ,i carry the enemy1 whether ,i leave my threshold1 or return back to my home4 ,with me do ,i bring the traitor1 and he is my heart's shadow1--the thunderbolt striking me4 ,with its storm it will scatter the roof of my dwelling1 set fire to my house4 ,and then suddenly stopping1 the sails of my boat will be folded1 and down will it sink4 7,to be continued47 ,,gods1 ,,heroes ,,and ,,men4 ,,by ,,amos ,j4 ,,johnson4 ,according to ,theosophy every man is a ,god incarnate4 ,in his real nature1 each man is a spark from the ,divine ,flame1 which descends from the ,infinite ,fountain of ,life and courses through ,eternity on a pilgrimage1 the purpose of which we can but faintly conceive4 ,great mystics have said that the universe exists for the sake of the soul's experience1 and that the purpose of life is that the soul may reach perfection4 ,the term embraces infinity1 perfect virtue1 wisdom1 power1 perfect altruism4 ,each department of ,nature must be carried on to a full completeness and the soul may not rest content with achieving merely its own perfection1 but must labor for the perfection of the great ,whole4 ,reaching from the ,one ,white ,light of ,absolute ,being down to the tiniest atom of matter1 each plane of existence is governed by ,divine ,intelligences4 ,all one can say is that after reaching to the highest conception possible to us of the ,divine ,intelligences that rise above us and to the highest knowledge attainable of the ,divine ,worlds1 still stretching far beyond the highest1 beyond the utmost reach of human thought1 there exists3 ,what8 ,an omnipresent1 eternal1 boundless and immutable ,principle1 on which all speculation is impossible1 since it transcends the power of human conception and can only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude4 ,it is beyond the reach and power of thought1 unthinkable and unspeakable4 ,this is the postulate of sublime and everlasting ,deity4 ,as far as we may go in endless ,eternity1 yet above and beyond all there reigneth absolute ,law4 ,recognizing then1 that the great unknowable ,deity is beyond our ken1 our study must be confined to the lesser ,deities1 though some of these seem unknowable2 but we may partially learn the relation they bear to men4 ,all the great religions present a series of divine ,presences1 and generally a triune ,godhead stands as the primal object of all adoration4 ,the ,hebrew ,bible traces three ,deities1 the highest of these being the ,most ,high ,god1 supreme ruler over all1 and synonymous with ,law2 the second ,deity is ,god1 the ,elohim1 a great hierarchy1 or rather a series of hierarchies of ,gods1 who formed the earth and filled it with living creatures and endowed man with his human nature2 while the third in rank among the ancient ,hebrews was ,jehovah1 who stands as their tribal ,deity4 ,the distinction between the ,most ,high ,god and ,jehovah is clearly shown in ,deuteronomy 7#cb3 #h-i71 where it says3 ,when the ,most ,high divided the nations1 their inheritance1 when ,he separated the ,sons of ,adam1 ,he set the bounds of the people4444 ,the ,lord's ,jehovah's portion is his people1 ,jacob is the lot of ,his inheritance4 ,the ,new ,testament also gives a triple ,godhead in the ,father1 ,son and ,holy ,spirit4 ,among the ,brahmins1 ,brahma is the ,creator1 ,vishnu the ,preserver and ,siva the ,destroyer2 with the ,greeks it was ,uranos1 ,kronos and ,zeus2 and with the ,egyptians1 ,osiris1 ,isis and ,horus4 ,these were not necessarily the most powerful ,gods in the ,pantheon1 but those most popularly known4 ,the ,hindus1 for instance1 are said to call their chief ,deity1 ,zyaus--which bears a close resemblance to the ,greek ,zeus2 and the ,egyptians called their ,unknown ,god1 ,amen or ,ammon4 ,all religions tell also of lesser divinities1 as archangels and angels4 ,theosophy1 the ,wisdom ,religion1 shows the three ,logoi which have proceeded from the ,unknowable ,principle2 these ,logoi are respectively the ,first ,cause1 the ,spirit of the ,universe1 and the ,universal ,world-,soul4 ,from the ,manifested ,logos1 the ,universal ,oversoul1 spring hundreds of classes of divine beings1 and these in their turn are the progenitors of the lower classes of beings4 ,from ,god down to the lowest mineral monad1 there is a direct chain of heredity1 binding all of existence into one great universal whole4 ,humanity is the child of the ,gods and traces its heredity through all the divine hierarchies to the ,unknowable ,root of all4 ,the traditions of all old nations tell of a ,golden ,age when ,gods and ,demigods lived among men4 ,greek mythology gives the following account of the formation of the ,earth and heavens3 ,before earth and sea and heaven were created1 all things wore one aspect1 to which we give the name ,chaos--a confused and shapeless mass1 in which1 however1 slumbered the seeds of things4 ,earth1 sea and air were all mixed up together2 so the earth was not solid1 the sea was not fluid1 and the air was not transparent4 ,god and ,nature at last interposed and put an end to this discord1 separating earth from sea1 and heaven from both4 ,then one of the ,gods gave ,his services in arranging the ,earth4 ,the air being cleared1 the stars began to appear1 fishes took possession of the sea1 birds of the air and beasts of the land4 ,but a nobler race was wanted1 and ,prometheus and his brother ,epimetheus made man in the image of the ,gods4 ,then ,prometheus went to heaven and lit his torch at the chariot of the ,sun1 and brought down fire to man4 ,he taught him to make weapons to subdue the animals1 tools to cultivate the ground1 and introduced arts and commerce4 ,the fire which ,prometheus brought1 refers not to a physical flame1 but to mind4 ,prometheus stands for the hierarchy which endowed physical man with his mental faculties1 and it is related that when mankind was supplied with the divine fire the ,gods became jealous of the new race1 and in revenge they chained ,prometheus to a rock where a vulture feasted on his liver1 which was renewed as fast as devoured4 ,he thus stands forth as the first ,saviour of humanity1 and his sufferings represent the first crucifixion4 ,mythology is written in glyph and symbol1 but if one stops to analyze these mystic tales1 volumes may be found hidden beneath the outer husk4 ,perhaps it was not revenge--but ,law--which caused ,prometheus to be chained to the rock4 ,he assumed the task of raising man to ,godhood and incarnated in the animal form that the lower entity might be better aided4 ,thus the rock to which he was chained becomes humanity itself1 and the vulture represents the desires and passions of the lower man4 ,humanity has always had divine ,teachers4 ,schools of ,magi or ,wise ,ones were established on the old ,lemurian continent1 and were open to all who were worthy4 ,these schools or temples were known to the public down to a period as late as #bjjj years ago1 when they closed to the world at large4 ,but the light has been kept burning in hidden places even to the present day4 ,the ,great ,lodge has maintained a continuous existence ever since its establishment millions of years ago1 and it is from this ,lodge that all the great ,teachers of the world have come--,krishna1 ,buddha1 ,jesus1 and all others4 ,a recent ,messenger from the ,lodge was ,h4 ,p4 ,blavatsky1 who founded the ,theosophical ,society and ,universal ,brotherhood4 ,through this channel the archaic teachings are again being presented to the world at large4 ,all who desire to learn the mysteries of life1 all who desire to advance along the ,path which leads from manhood to ,godhood are welcome to the archaic wisdom4 ,if the applicant for divine knowledge will purify his nature and be brotherly to his neighbor1 then he may gain the greatest profit by a study of ,theosophy1 for then its teachings will be illuminated by a greater light than intellect itself can ever shed4 ,the true men of to-day are those who are able to subdue their lower nature and make it obedient to the behests of the spiritual man4 ,it is a heavy task1 but in the end will lead to a higher life4 ,the course of training at first is very simple1 being concerned with the commonest of daily duties4 ,if one is irritable1 quick-tempered1 censorious1 lazy1 selfish or unjust1 his first steps upon the ,path will consist in correcting these faults4 ,one must make a persistent struggle to become industrious1 self-controlled and sweet tempered1 and not until these qualities are developed need one be anxious for anything beyond4 ,if one fails in some respects or in all respects he need not be discouraged1 but should try again1 and keep on trying until he does succeed4 ,the evolution from man to ,hero or ,seer1 and from ,seer to ,perfection can not take place in a single life1 for one life is not sufficient to furnish either time or environment for the many lines of development that are required4 ,before the man can become one of the company of the great ,helpers of ,humanity1 he must be purged of every weakness and defilement4 ,he does not need ,their learning1 but he must have ,their purity4 ,what good is soap to a negro1 and advice to a fool8 ,do not make a wicked man thy companion1 nor act on the advice of a fool4--,gems from the ,east4 ,,the ,,philosophy ,,of ,,suicide4 ,,by ,t4 ,b4 ,,wilson4 ,there is a very much deeper meaning than some people suppose1 to what ,paul said to the ,romans1 ,none liveth to himself1 and no man dieth to himself4 ,in inflicting a wound upon himself1 the suicide wounds all there is1 and his death shocks every living thing4 ,that is so because of the oneness1 the solidarity1 the interdependence of all that is4 ,hence it is that the atom is as necessary to the universe as a world4 ,it is a very old philosophy1 but it is a demonstrable cosmological and psychological fact1 for we know that man necessarily lives and moves and has his being under the same law of growth and maintenance that supports and sustains every other entity1 even from the atom subdivided into a million parts away to the mightiest god4 ,it is just as incumbent upon the bowlder that it fulfill its destiny as it is that man should fulfill his4 ,hence1 it is a violation of the law of being to purposely or unnecessarily retard the unfoldment of one's self or any other thing4 ,the wrong done to the thing hindered reflects back upon the doer in force1 in addition to the injury done to that which was wronged4 ,the divinity which shapes the course of a man's journey through the worlds of existence is his own thoughts and acts1 and1 furthermore1 every thought and act exerts an influence for good or for evil everywhere4 ,it is true1 altogether true1 that every man is more or less his brother's keeper1 and that no one can escape the consequences of his acts and thoughts upon his own life1 nor of the influence they exert upon the lives of others4 ,the interdependence of all things and the universality of being is seen in all things4 ,this is a principle of existence which to know the full meaning of1 one must know one's self4 ,existence as a personality and individuality1 with power to reason and understand1 is at once the most sublime and most fearful stage of unfoldment4 ,it is sublime when considered as evidence of individual possibilities1 and fearful when1 in the presence of ,god in manifestation1 the responsibility which the realization of the universality of being and the interdependence of all things imposed upon the individual is felt4 ,the law of being makes a relationship to exist between individuals as a whole which transcends the ties of consanguinity4 ,you may call it universal brotherhood1 if you like1 but any way1 the relationship imposes tasks of toil and burdens of duty upon everyone1 and to wilfully make the burden of duty or the task of toil harder for one's self or for another is to defy the power of the universe and invite the wrath of the source and maintainer of being4 ,but somehow or some way the average man and woman finds in the so-called philosophy of suicide a most bewitching theme for conversation and discussion1 and it is just possible that not a few are persuaded to try the realities of it by letting their minds dwell upon the subject too much4 ,that there is a certain fascination in the problem of life and death1 no one will deny1 but the thoughtful person would not seek its solution in self-destruction4 ,the better a man understands the law of his being the clearer he sees that in ratio to his obedience to the laws of nature is he in harmonious relation with all things1 and that when in such harmony1 existence in the body is altogether desirable1 whether he be sick or well1 rich or poor4 ,but what constitutes suicide or self-murder8 ,we are accustomed to call that an act of suicide which hurls one into death at once1 when death follows the act instantly4 ,now1 as a matter of fact1 we all are almost sure to occupy a suicide's grave4 ,there is a difference between the man who burns out his stomach in twenty seconds with prussic acid and the man who burns out his stomach in twenty years with whisky1 but can you tell me just what the difference is8 ,that thought might be carried into the conduct of our life throughout4 ,the natural end of a man's pilgrimage in each incarnation is when the spiritual man has so spiritualized his physical body that the spirit can no longer function in it4 ,death1 then1 is surely the spirit walking out of the body by its own free will1 just as we lay aside a garment when it is worn out4 ,all other deaths come of violation of nature's laws1 and they are premature4 ,it is because we indirectly1 at least1 commit what is almost the equivalent of what we are wont to call suicide that1 in my opinion1 we have to come back so often4 ,it is impossible for disease and death1 as we understand and feel them1 to lay hold upon one who lives in harmony with nature's laws4 ,so as a matter of fact1 practically all deaths are the penalty for wrong living4 ,we come back time and again because we need certain other experiences1 but the purpose of experience is to teach us to live right1 and the reason why we need new experiences is because we have not hitherto1 or are not now1 living in harmony with nature's laws4 ,karma makes us go to school until we have mastered the lesson4 ,it is for us to say how many lives we will devote to it1 but every moment we turn away from the lesson we drink down poison which kills4 ,to seek death by one's own hand is not a new method to overcome the ills that relentlessly chase their victims through briar patch and over flint hill4 ,it is a right that has been claimed by very many in all ages1 and some of the world's most distinguished personages committed self-murder to escape impending trouble4 ,the crime--for it is a crime--has been defended by such famous writers as ,gibbon1 ,hume1 ,von ,hartman and ,schopenhauer4 ,strangely enough1 as civilization advances and universities multiply1 the roll of self-murderers seems to increase4 ,it can not be said1 therefore1 that the spread of culture and knowledge1 of discoveries in the field of science1 and the adoption of higher codes of commercial and social ethics1 educate or influence the world away from the old-time philosophy that a man's highest right is to quit living by his own hand when he is tired of life4 ,indeed1 it would seem that the wider the range of personal liberty1 and the more extended the opportunities for intellectual expansion and experiment1 the incentive to self-destruction is intensified4 ,at a recent meeting of the ,american ,medico-,legal congress it was held by not a few members that not only was suicide justifiable in cases where there appeared to be no other way for one to relieve one's misery1 but that a physician would be justifiable in ending the life of his patient under certain circumstances4 ,i think we all will agree that such a sentiment is unworthy of a manly man4 ,when a man assumes to be a law unto himself he is certain to come in contact with forces which will sweep him out of the current of the river of individual progress into whirls and eddies1 which agitate the waters fearfully but do not move onward4 ,he will realize1 too1 that ,god1 the universe and himself are one stupendous whole--absolutely inseparable--and that when he quits any sphere of existence by his own act in violation of the law of his being he is still a necessary part of the whole1 and that in severing the cord of earthly life he not only fails of his purpose1 but he himself will feel the jar more severely than any other entity in all the worlds of ,god1 and not only so1 but he shall continue to live amid distracting discord until he voluntarily readjusts himself to that system of law and harmony from which he essayed unlawfully to break away4 ,certainly he will find pain and sorrow in returning1 but not to return is to be without rest eternally4 ,nevertheless1 all men appoint their time to die by their conduct of life1 which in nearly all cases is a form of suicide4 ,there are those who advocate suicide as a proper means of escape from tiresome environment who deny that any unpleasant consequences could follow1 because there is no consciousness after death1 but it is incumbent upon them to prove that there is such a state as death in the sense they speak of it4 ,it would seem that if there is no consciousness in what is called the state of the dead--if the memory of man is annihilated by what is called death--it should be annihilated by sleep or trance1 for they are states in which the body is dead for the time4 ,of course1 the advocate of suicide fortifies his position by denying that there is memory where there is no brain life and action1 and that when the brain ceases to be active1 memory perishes1 but that theory is untenable1 because the brain is entirely renewed every seven years or such a matter4 ,a man remembers incidents in his childhood1 although meanwhile his brain has changed completely a dozen times4 ,it must be1 therefore1 that there is something in man which is impervious to the influences which time exerts over the physical body4 ,the tablets of the memory continue throughout4 ,there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body4 ,the advocate of suicide as the better way to rid one's self of trials and tribulations is necessarily a materialist4 ,he preaches the doctrine of immortality of matter and the mortality of spirit1 which is a ridiculous absurdity4 ,but he will discourse learnedly about the milliards of bacilli--separate1 distinct1 individual1 living entities--which float about1 live1 move and have their being nearly everywhere1 but if he were asked to catch a few that they might be seen and handled he would promptly say they were altogether invisible to the naked eye1 that they are almost sub-microscopic4 ,he would admit that these invisible creatures have existence under the same law that peoples the forest with trees1 the earth with animals1 and the channels of commerce with men1 but he would not admit that any living thing could have life separate from its visible organism2 hence1 when the physical organism becomes ill1 or is subjected to any other uncomfortable conditions of existence1 it is its right to escape by quitting life4 ,but materialists are too few and far between to bother with2 besides1 there never was a materialist who did not hope that his philosophy was in error1 and that he should continue to live as an individual1 retaining memory and affections after what he calls death4 ,having that hope he is deprived of the right to advocate suicide1 because if he is to live after the death of the body he must admit that he will be a substantial1 thinking being1 for it is impossible to think of substance without form1 and of either without ascribing power to it4 ,but there is a phase of the philosophy of suicide which can be seen only from the occult or metaphysical side of life4 ,it has been said that it is the cowardly and unmanly man who wilfully destroys his own life1 but for all that a great deal of mental strength and bravery may be required to become too great a coward to combat even little annoyances4 ,and again1 the psychological influences which gradually prepare a man during the long days of a protracted illness to calmly1 gladly no doubt1 welcome death as a friend come in the hour of need1 may come with such force upon the man contemplating self-slaughter that he is as much nerved to meet death as he whose mental acquiescence came after weeks or months of bodily pain and wasting away4 ,the stoics knew of this occult force which nerves a man to destroy his life1 and they called it a sympathetic friend1 but science has never been able to analyze or define it1 and hence we can know nothing of it except what we gather from the lesson its effects upon the soul of man teaches4 ,it is not true1 though1 that the suicide leaps from darkness of despair here into the bright light of peace and joy over there4 ,the occult force which nerves a man to murder himself1 the would-be suicides should bear in mind1 is not spent when the man dies4 ,it is a force which is also an immutable law1 albeit the influence of its operation is confined to the spiritual man4 ,if it nerves a man to deal with himself harshly it is because the free will of the man cannot be disputed4 ,were it to paralyze his mind and cripple his purpose the man would be little more than a human machine subject to the whims or caprice of a force or power higher than he4 ,it is the recognition of his free agency by the eternal cause that makes a man a free moral agent1 but the same force that sustains him in the exercise of his rights as a free agent follows him beyond the grave and all through the process of unfoldment if he elects to progress1 or through the process of retrogression if he inclines to travel to the left4 ,in quitting this sphere or plane of existence the suicide by no means escapes duty4 ,the environment from which he fled must be met and overcome1 and in trying to escape he only strengthens the opposing forces and weakens his own powers of resistance4 ,nevertheless1 the battle must be fought and the victory must be won if he would be free from the hurtful influences which prompted him to avoid learning the lesson of life1 and whatever the environment is1 it is to be overcome for the good to him there is in the victory4 ,this is the law of compensation1 and it is the law of all laws1 for it commands that whatsoever a man soweth1 that shall he also reap4 ,the suicide1 therefore1 not only fails to escape the ills he flees from--but he intensifies the distress which burdens him4 ,moreover1 no occult or spiritual force ever influenced him to burden himself with the consequences of hateful environment1 but it aided in the exercise of his free will4 ,and1 again1 whatever a man's burden may be it is the harvest of his own sowing4 ,if it be of love and sweet memories it is his by natural right1 so also it is his by natural right if it be greed and cowardice4 ,the suicide runs from the presence of trouble to the arms of many troubles1 and the occult force that aids him in the exercise of his free will holds him to account for committing self-murder with the same firm hand of justice that it would had he murdered his neighbor instead of himself4 ,there is no escape from the consequences of one's acts4 ,the grave is no hiding place4 ,it is the door rather which opens into a court of justice beyond--into a place where the ethical debits and credits of the individual await him that a balance may be struck4 ,those things which he planted in the field of life will be there as debits and credits4 ,nothing will be omitted1 be they the fruit of omission or of commission1 and that which he owes he must come again into the field of the activities of physical environment and pay to the uttermost farthing4 ,this1 too1 the law of ,karma demands1 and this it exacts4 ,,the ,,ethics ,,of ,,sex4 ,,by ,,grace ,g4 ,,bohn4 ,simple8 ,why this is the old woe o' the world3 ,tune to whose rise and fall we live and die4 ,rise with it then6 ,rejoice that man is hurled ,from change to change unceasingly1 ,his soul's wings never furled4 --,robert ,browning4 ,the destiny of each soul is reunion with the ,absolute from which it emanated4 ,but this reunion may be accomplished only through yielding the claims of the personal self to the greater ,self1 the ,christos which exists within each personality4 ,a single word gives us the key to the process1--brotherhood4 ,to this goal there is one royal road and many that are long and terrible4 ,but the royal road may be travelled only by those who are immune from temptation because their consciousness is not centred in the self which may be tempted4 ,understanding the law1 they obey it1 for only by obedience may the law be transcended and the soul become free4 ,that is a royal road1 indeed4 ,but it is only for the few4 ,the other1 cyclic and steep as the pathway that winds to the summit of the ,purgatorio mountain1 must for ages be travelled by the multitudes2 for it is they who cannot as yet answer the questions1 ,whence came ,i8 wherefore do ,i exist1 and whither do ,i go8 ,spirit1 when first differentiated from the ,absolute1 is simple1 not complex1 undifferentiated1 pure and good because it has not become conscious of evil4 ,to gain the experiences by which alone it may expand its consciousness to infinity and become inclusive of all differentiation1 it becomes individualized and embodied4 ,and this earth is the scene of the experiences which the spirit needs and which it can gain only by means of an embodiment of personality4 ,cycle after cycle1 life after life1 the soul tests all the conditions of earthly pleasure and pain by its own standard and measure4 ,if that standard be self1 alienation will be swift and certain1 and slow and terrible will be the return to the divine4 ,if the measure be brotherhood1 service1 ministry to others1 the soul remains one with ,god and spiritual consciousness is by so much expanded4 ,since brotherhood is the ideal1 our very institutions1 church1 state1 and particularly the home1 exist for no higher purpose than to develop within the soul of humanity a conscious desire to live for others4 ,it is only because the soul manifests itself as two forces1 in two sexes1 man and woman1 that the institution of the home1 as we know it1 is made possible4 ,we fancy that these dual forces1 incomplete and fluctuating1 become completed and stable only through marriage4 ,the novelists have threshed over this old straw for many weary years1 for the view commonly taken is superficial and untrue4 ,marriage1 in its deeper aspect1 is a means by which the soul prepares itself1 through the joys of limited service1 for that wider ministry which includes the world4 ,emerson expresses it better when he says the lover ascends to the highest beauty1 to the love and knowledge of ,divinity1 by steps on this ladder of created souls4 ,marriage opens the shortest way by which men and women1 self-centred and egotistical1 may be compelled1 against their will if need be1 to become conscious of the joy of sacrifice and the beauty of service4 ,the child1 like the childish race1 is1 in some respects1 very much of a savage4 ,he has neither intellectual nor ethical ideas and1 as ,froebel expresses it1 the first circle of a child's life is physical nature bound by necessity4 ,the baby cares only to be kept physically comfortable1 and he proposes to be kept so at the expense of others as far as possible4 ,he is a little egotist4 ,the world is his oyster4 ,selfishness1 if he be not guided1 is far more native to him during the earliest period of his life1 than altruism4 ,and it is significant that a large proportion of children grow into manhood and womanhood1 particularly in these days of ferment and individualism1 with the firm belief that1 first of all1 they must look out for themselves4 ,they do not voluntarily accept the path of brotherhood1 but the law1 the wise law1 forces them1 by few or many hard experiences1 to finally see the wisdom of choosing it4 ,by refusing to obey the law they place themselves within the sweep of its mighty arm and are struck down4 ,we are all one2 we minister to ourselves only as we minister to others4 ,we must first sacrifice self1 else all the rest will not be added unto us and even that which we have will be taken away4 ,but before we are capable of the wider ministry1 we must prove ourselves by the narrower service1 and nature1 with her wise economy1 leads us into a field wherein service and sacrifice are inevitable1 and its gateway is marriage4 ,emerson gives us the key to this mystery when he says3 ,the man is only half himself2 his other half is his expression4 ,the true expression is service1 the ideal which leads us to accept it is brotherhood1 and to that expression the other sex is only the embodied opportunity4 ,to that expression marriage is the guardian and the gateway only as husband and wife accept all its culture and all its sacrifices1 patiently1 joyfully1 completely4 ,that signifies1 ordinarily1 that both husband and wife must lose their personal selves in their children1 and if1 for selfish reasons1 they refuse this service1 they are missing the culture of this incarnation4 ,if they refuse it for reasons that are unselfish1 for the opportunities of a wider ministry1 that is1 as ,kipling would say1 another story4 ,that is the supreme sacrifice4 ,it is1 in most cases1 wiser for husband and wife to fill their home with little children for two reasons4 ,in the first place1 through the care of children 7the care of their minds and souls not less than of their bodies71 each forgets self and learns the ,a ,b ,c of that great lesson in ministry which alone will make universal brotherhood possible upon the face of the earth4 ,because these sacrifices are more inevitable to the mother than to the father1 she is likely to learn this lesson more speedily1 and perhaps that is one reason why the ,ego clothes itself now in one sex and now in another in the course of its earthly experiences4 ,perhaps it is that we may learn this lesson of sacrifice well that the newly embodied soul inflicts upon the builders of its physical body such agonies1 sacrifices1 and anxieties1 that their souls seem to be torn up by the very roots1 only to be planted1 when quiet comes again1 upon a higher plateau and in an atmosphere less dense4 ,emerson has said truly1 ,infancy conforms to nobody2 all conform to it4 ,under existing conditions the lesson of selflessness will have to be learned by most of us through this very differentiation of sex1 and we may make as much ado about it as we please4 ,we may learn it through the agony and the terror of a ,hetty ,sorrel or a ,margaret1 both of whom were examples of extreme selfishness2 we may accept it gracefully1 as do the average man and woman1 with a very faint comprehension of what it all means2 or we may welcome and glorify parenthood as the ,madonna glorified it1 prophesy of that future time when every child shall be the child of an immaculate conception4 ,help nature and work on with her1 and nature shall regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance4#b ,the second reason why the selfish person is delaying his own advancement by refusing to fulfill the duties that he tacitly accepts by marriage is very prosaic4 ,we all like to assure ourselves that we are rays of the ,infinite1 channels through which alone the ,god-message may be brought to mankind4 ,that is very inspiring4 ,but it is not so inspiring to reflect that we are also the gateways1 self-appointed by the very estate of marriage1 through which other souls1 more advanced than ourselves perhaps1 may come into the physical embodiment which they need for future experience4 ,that is quite another thing1 and all the old self which binds our souls rebels4 ,for this means1 to a great degree1 the sacrifice of our social pleasures1 our recreations1 time1 money1 physical ease1 perhaps health2 it means broken rest1 disorderly rooms1 the washing of bedaubed little hands1 and the kissing of1 oh1 such dirty little mouths4 ,it means that we have to shut our schylus and shelve our ,faust and our ,homer for a few years at least1 and many a father and mother look back with something like longing upon the old days when they lived with these great souls and when their cherished books were not smeared as to bindings and torn as to leaves4 ,was it an accident that ,froebel called the system of education that he gave to the world the science of motherhood8 ,was it accidental that he should dedicate the deepest and truest philosophy of which ,i have any conception to the end that the father and the mother1 and through them1 the child1 might become able to look beneath the visible for the invisible which conditions it2 beneath the outer phenomena to the spirit which gives it birth2 beyond the transitory to the permanent4 ,such a philosophy makes one very patient with physical duties and sacrifices when they are regarded as only a means to an end that is higher than physical4 ,such a philosophy makes it somewhat easier to step out from sunlight into shade to make more room for others4 ,that is1 to me1 the ethical side of the now-existing relationship of the sexes about which the reformers are making so much ado4 ,it is these who lament with such vigor the large families of the very poor4 ,looked at from the standpoint of the eternal1 the growing number of childless families among the better classes is a much more serious state of affairs4 ,large and half-cared for families of children prove nothing more than ignorance on the part of the parents1 of both spiritual and physical laws4 ,and the suffering that this ignorance entails will inevitably lead the soul to a higher consciousness4 ,but the other state of affairs is--with exceptions--the result of selfishness2 and the more conscious the soul1 the greater the alienation resulting from a selfish course of action4 ,says ,h4 ,p4 ,b41 ,the selfish devotee lives to no purpose4 ,the man who does not go through his appointed work in life has lived in vain4 ,it is very noble to slay the appetites but that may occasionally be only a more subtle phase of selfishness4 ,besides that1 desires that are slain for selfish comfort's sake do not free us from the law4 ,that is why it is such nonsense to seek the solution of this old problem by placing the caprice or whim of the individual man or woman above the law of the universe4 ,as long as men and women are selfish1 as long as marriages are made from selfish motives1 ,i bow before the rampant desires that shall force the soul into sacrifices until the self has disappeared4 ,but when the law is obeyed1 and when old ,karmic debts are paid1 woman and man will rise superior to it1 the will of the individual become one with the universal will1 and the spirit have gained her freedom4 ,please do not mistake me4 ,i do not believe that marriage is the only circumstance through which the sexes can become self-poised1 completed and stable4 ,i do not believe that those who marry should always accept the limited service that little children demand of them4 ,i do not believe that the sacrifices of fatherhood and motherhood are the highest sacrifices4 ,nothing of the kind4 ,marriage is simply a means by which the less advanced souls1 the feeble1 the selfish1 may rise out of feebleness into strength1 out of self into ,god4 ,susan ,e4 ,blow1 in her ,study of ,dante1 has defined the ,inferno as the soul filled with self1 the ,purgatorio as the soul emptied of self1 and the ,paradiso as the soul filled with ,god4 ,dante himself1 with his divine insight into the nature of sin1 places the jealous souls 7become so through selfishness extreme7 in icebound ,cocytus1 at the very pit of the ,inferno4 ,to most of us marriage is indeed the gateway leading out of an ,inferno of selfishness1 and it is marriage that places upon our backs the precious burdens which we must carry up the ,purgatorio mountain4 ,the more we climb the less it hurts until we seem to fly4#c ,but climb we must until the burdens have all fallen and the self has disappeared4 ,by the light of the dim star that burns within the cyclic path must be ascended4 ,but when the top has been reached its light will suddenly become the infinite light4 ,we shall have entered the ,paradiso4 ,advanced souls1 those who are capable of wider and better service1 need not to complete themselves in marriage nor to find their expression in the opportunities it gives them4 ,they are strong enough to find it voluntarily in a cause4 ,they do not marry on the physical plane1 but truly wedded are they on the spiritual plane and in that marriage to the needs of the world they find the other half1 their expression4 ,they cease their hovering between opposites and are stable4 ,such souls were ,michael ,angelo and ,raphael1 who found complete expression in art4 ,socrates needed no wife4 ,he found his expression in loafing on the street-corners and plying his mystic questions4 ,xantippe was clearly a superfluity and we do not blame her for scolding him when we remember that she had none of his philosophic insight to carry her over the desert of his neglect4 ,dorothea ,dix1 ,florence ,nightingale and hundreds of other souls have found their appropriate expression in ministry to physical suffering4 ,h4 ,p4 ,b41 great loving heart1 forgot self in a sublime service of the mind and of the spirit4 ,such souls do not drift nor waver2 they need none of the experiences of physical fatherhood or motherhood2 they are wedded to the needs of the world1 they become spiritual fathers and mothers to its children1 they find their expression in brotherhood1 they are self-poised1 completed1 and at rest4 #b ,voice of the ,silence4 #c ,dante4 ,whoever1 not being a sanctified person1 pretends to be a ,saint1 he is indeed the lowest of all men1 the thief in all worlds1 including that of ,brahma4 ,like a beautiful flower1 full of color1 but without scent1 are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly4--,gems from the ,east4 ,,the ,,sokratic ,,club4 ,,by ,,solon4 7,continued47 ,at our next gathering an address was given by ,mr4 ,knowlton on ,art as an ,educational ,factor1 with special reference to the ,drama4 ,after the formal address a very interesting conversation arose on the subject in which the ,professor1 ,mr4 ,knowlton1 and ,dr4 ,roberts took part1 and which ,i will relate here as far as ,i am able to remember it4 ,the other members took the part of listeners4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,i can well understand1 ,mr4 ,knowlton1 that ,art plays an important part in life and should be cultivated1 and that no one's nature is complete who lacks appreciation of the artistic and beautiful1 but even granting this1 ,i do not agree with you that the training of the artistic faculties should be given so much prominence1 but should be secondary to that training which fits a man for work in the world4 ,to put it in another way2 for the man of the world1 art is all very well for his leisure hours and for his relaxation and enjoyment but can have no place in his active everyday life4 ,mr4 ,knowlton4--,i take an entirely opposite view1 ,doctor1 as you know from what ,i have said1 and ,i maintain that it is just because we have put ,art in a secondary place that our civilization is characterized by so much unrest and skepticism2 the finer1 inner side of man's nature has been subordinated to the grosser and external4 ,what is the criterion of success in the world to-day8 ,that should be sufficient argument in support of my claim4 ,and the man who has achieved success1 acquired wealth1 position1 fame1 has not thereby attained to happiness but in nearly every case is still the victim of the unrest of the age4 ,he may use his wealth in the patronage of art1 in collections of paintings and sculpture1 in support of ,grand ,opera and what not1 but tell me1 do you honestly think that he truly appreciates these8 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,no1 ,i think not4 ,indeed1 in nine cases out of ten1 he affects a patronage of art1 has his private picture gallery and a box at the opera because it is the fashion4 ,no doubt by doing so he is useful in a way to the ,art world1 but ,i must confess that if ,i wanted a true appreciation of a work of ,art1 ,i would not go to such a one4 ,mr4 ,knowlton4--,no1 the enthusiasm and the true love of art which is the great incentive in making all life beautiful and harmonious would be lacking4 ,well1 what is the reason of this8 ,i should say it is because ,art was made entirely subordinate if not almost neglected in his education1 and because it has held a subordinate place throughout his life4 ,the ,professor4--,i do not think we can rightly say what position ,art should occupy in education and life unless we can first determine what is truly man's work in the world and what is the object of life4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,that is just the position ,i take4 ,life is a serious matter and a man cannot afford to spend his time and energy on what after all is more a matter of the imagination than anything else4 ,although ,i certainly think the sthetic faculties should not be neglected but that they should receive a certain amount of training2 yet1 at the same time1 except in the case of those who follow art as a profession1 they play very little part in a man's life work4 ,in fact1 ,i have known of more than one case where sthetic sensitiveness has positively unfitted men for the keen competition of life4 ,after all1 the beautiful must give place to the useful1 and1 for my part1 ,i say1 give me the cold facts of science and ,i will make life successful1 whereas the man whose artistic faculties have been trained as ,mr4 ,knowlton says they should be1 would have his life made miserable by the discords and inharmonies that he must inevitably meet4 ,but put science and the appreciation of facts as a basis1 then a little sthetic training is all very well as an embellishment4 ,the ,professor4--,doctor1 ,i fear you have completely backslided to your old materialistic position which you formerly used to hold4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,if ,i have ,i certainly think ,i have reason and fact on my side this time4 ,let us get to the bottom of this question4 ,mr4 ,knowlton proposes to make education of the sthetic and artistic faculties of the first importance1 but what would be the effect among the masses of the people8 ,i fully agree with providing high class entertainments for the masses--picture-galleries1 good music1 etc4 ,but to give an education such as suggested would but make them more discontented with their lot and increase their unhappiness4 ,what they need is plain scientific teaching and trade schools where they can be trained to become more useful members of society and more competent to earn a livelihood1 but not music or art save as a recreation and which ,i think ought to be provided for them in the shape of public concerts and art galleries by the cities4 ,with the exception of a little singing and drawing when at school to enable them to appreciate this recreation when they grow up1 it would be waste of time for them to develop an appreciation of the artistic4 ,their lot is too hard and all their energies are needed for the stern realities of life4 ,the ,professor4--,that is all very well1 and very well put from your standpoint in regard to man's work in the world1 but possibly there is another standpoint from which the matter may be viewed4 ,mr4 ,knowlton4--,and perhaps the very discontent which you fear1 ,doctor1 would be just what is needed to lift the masses from their present almost hopeless condition4 ,the discontent from which they suffer now will never cease through mere material means or scientific education1 or the making and enforcing of new laws4 ,the ,professor4--,they don't know the cause of their discontent4 ,they think that if they could have money and material comforts they would be happy1 but we know very well that these things do not bring happiness4 ,it is the insanity of the age1 this pursuit of the phantom of material prosperity1 it is this that breeds all the selfishness1 all the greed and lust of possession4 ,by regarding physical life as all important1 humanity has got off the track1 has lost the way that leads to happiness4 ,material happiness1 physical existence1 as an end1 is a veritable bottomless pit--the more it is sacrificed to1 the more insatiable it becomes1 the more it demands4 ,the physical life and physical needs must not be neglected1 but so long as these are regarded as an end and their gratification as the summum bonum1 just so long will ever new needs arise1 new forms of poverty1 new distress4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,professor1 you startle me6 ,i hardly know what to say4 ,i cannot conceive how social reform can take place on any other lines than the material4 ,the ,professor4--,it certainly requires courage1 it requires first of all philosophy as a basis1 to deliberately turn around and put physical existence and material comfort in a secondary place while aiming to develop man's inner faculties4 ,yet ,i maintain that this is the only way to bring hope and happiness to humanity4 ,it will1 as you say1 make them discontented with their lot1 but this will be but temporary4 ,it will open for them a door to a higher life which alone through its reaction on the collective mind of humanity will make possible and bring about that active brotherliness which will ultimately remove poverty and distress wherever found4 ,mr4 ,knowlton4--,isn't it a law of ,nature that the problems of one plane can ultimately only be solved by rising to the next higher plane8 ,and it seems to me that this is one of ,nature's methods in evolution1 to create discontent with the lower by awakening that which is higher1 thus creating a craving for the higher and a consequent output of energy to attain it4 ,the ,professor4--,and1 it should be added1 ultimately making the lower of greater service and a more useful instrument4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,granting all this for the sake of argument1 how will you proceed to bring it about1 for as ,i have said1 this artistic appreciation is more a matter of the imagination than anything else and applies to a realm of which there is1 so far as ,i know1 no scientific knowledge and concerning which1 consequently1 there will be as many opinions and methods of procedure as there are teachers8 ,look for instance1 at the many methods of voice training and all the schools of ,art4 ,where is there any recognized starting point8 ,the ,professor4--,these are all very pertinent questions1 ,doctor4 ,but before discussing them let me refer to your remark about imagination4 ,isn't it worth while to cultivate the imagination8 ,where would have been all the great discoveries in ,science had not our scientific men used their imaginations8 ,the pity is that there has been no training of this faculty1 it is almost a terra incognita4 ,but to come to your questions proper4 ,how shall we proceed to awaken and train the love of the beautiful that it may work this miracle of regenerating the human race1 for such ,i believe it will accomplish4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,one moment1 ,professor1 let me interrupt you here4 ,a little time ago we spoke of the lack of true appreciation of art among many of the so-called patrons of art1 but surely that must to some extent be passing away1 for nearly all the wealthy and even those of moderate means provide that their children shall have some education in art or music4 ,even in the public schools an important feature is made of drawing and class singing4 ,surely all this ought to bring about what you desire if your theory is correct1 but for my part ,i cannot see that it will cause any appreciable change1 or in any great degree affect the condition of the masses4 ,i simply wanted to say this before you go further1 in order that we might not overlook what is already being done and because ,i think this supports my position that art and music are all very well for recreation and pleasure but that the main thing to help the people is along what ,i call practical1 material and scientific lines4 ,only in this way can they be fitted for their work in the world4 ,mr4 ,knowlton4--,you have stated your position very clearly1 ,doctor1 and ,i now see there were many points ,i did not cover in my address though some of your objections ,i certainly did anticipate4 ,however1 in the first place it comes down to this4 ,what answer is to be given to the question which the ,professor asked and which you have again raised8 ,what is a man's work in the world8 ,what is man8 ,what is his nature8 ,in what does education consist8 ,we have often discussed these questions1 ,doctor1 so now we needn't go into them at any length1 for you know very well my position in regard to them1 but they come up in a slightly different aspect in relation to the subject in hand4 ,let us for the moment1 then1 grant the existence of the inner man1 the real man1 the man of high imaginations1 high feelings1 with keen appreciation of harmony and beauty1 that something within us which prompts to a deed of self-sacrifice1 which feels the joy of helping another and relieving distress4 ,the outer man lives on material food1 but for health needs also pure air and sunshine--all these are necessary to animal existence4 ,but the inner man needs something more4 ,there are other states of feeling besides that of physical well-being4 ,there are other powers besides the physical or even the mental4 ,it is no mere effect of the imagination that beautiful music or harmony of form and color awaken in response certain harmonies in the soul and it is just in this way that true art may be made a vital educative factor4 ,the ,professor4--,a man's true work in the world is the soul's work1 and true education is that which enables the soul to fulfil its destiny and make manifest its own nature4 ,true education is therefore that which will draw out the soul's own powers4 ,if this were done the rest of our life would all fall into its proper place4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,but as ,i have said1 even granting that1 it is all vague4 ,where and how will you begin8 ,have you any science of the soul's powers and how to awaken them8 ,what more would you have than is already being done in the way of art education8 ,the ,professor4--,it is just because there is a science of the soul's powers that more should be done1 and lovers of art have sought and striven for this for centuries4 ,but the time had not come4 ,it has come now and this renaissance of the soul's powers is already heralded by the ,revival of the ,lost ,mysteries of ,antiquity4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,what6 do we have to go to the ancients for this8 ,i acknowledge all the culture and art of the ,greeks1 but ,i am not one of those who puts ,greek civilization above ours4 ,the ,professor4--,it is not a question of giving the palm to either ancient or modern civilization4 ,our civilization marks one stage of development but in it we have lost something that the ancients had4 ,there is something lacking from our lives4 ,we have developed our physical senses and physical and mental powers to a marvellous degree but there are not that harmony and serenity in our lives which alone can give true happiness4 ,the key to these was in the ,mysteries whereby man was brought face to face with the essences of things and his own inner nature4 ,dr4 ,roberts4--,how can these ,mysteries be revived--so little is known of them and you yourself speak of them as lost4 ,the ,professor4--,lost only to the world at large1 but they have never been wholly lost4 ,there have always been some in the world to whom has been entrusted the sacred wisdom and through whom it has been handed down from age to age4 ,here some of the members began to make a move towards departure and as it was quite late it was decided to resume the discussion at the next meeting when it was expected ,madam ,purple would be present4 ,a chariot cannot go on one wheel alone2 so destiny fails unless men's acts coperate4--,gems from the ,east4 ,,fragment--,,omniscience4 ,,by ,,adhiratha4 ,in the ,key to ,theosophy of ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 there are some allusions to the omniscience of the real man within everybody4 ,not grasping the meaning1 ,i once had a conversation with ,madame ,blavatsky on the subject1 and ,i must confess that at the time ,i was not any wiser for it4 ,i thought what a good thing it would be if instead of passing hours and hours on the solution of a problem1 one might simply ask the real man1 who knowing all1 would tell you at once all about it4 ,i must confess that ,i had some doubt about the real man knowing all1 and ,i asked ,madame ,blavatsky to explain4 ,i am sure that she tried to awake my understanding1 but at that time it was all a beginning1 and young ,theosophists felt then 7as they do sometimes even now7 proud1 when they knew the ,sanskrit names of the seven principles and a few more strange sounding words4 ,i thought3 ,omniscience is knowing all1 which of course must comprise everything and every problem1 and the hardest mathematical nut will be child's play for the real man to crack--if ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 is right6 ,now if we but change intonation and instead of knowing all1 say knowing all1 we shall get a little step nearer the standpoint from which the question looks more attackable4 ,the question turns first about that much abused word knowledge4 ,we generally think it to mean the conviction or even certainty1 that under given conditions of things some unavoidable result took place1 and will take place anew when those conditions will re-occur4 ,a doctor knows that for a certain illness1 the name of which implies a certain condition of the human body1 a certain remedy will restablish other conditions called health4 ,an engineer knows by experiment and calculation1 that a certain form of structure under given loads will have to resist such and such forces in its divers parts1 and then he lodges his material in such a way1 that no part gets too much and no material gets too little anywhere1 which he can only do approximately4 ,but all this is not real knowledge and neither the doctor nor the engineer knows what that thing is he is dealing with and how its molecules feel4 ,real knowledge has nothing to do with apparent knowledge1 and it is useless to ask the real man within to write out the development of a mathematical problem for you4 ,but when it comes to the application of such a mathematical solution whereby one tries to get a certain insight into nature1 then it may be said that the real man has that insight into nature without passing by the tedious way of a mathematical investigation4 ,what science tries to find out1 that the real man is already1 and he knows without a shade of doubt that which science strives at but never reaches4 ,that essence which constitutes the real man1 which has passed through all the kingdoms below man1 which we find specified in every human being as the monad1 clothed in different garbs so as to appear distinct1 that essence knows all about everything we can think of1 and that part of the ,universe which we can think of constitutes the omnia for man4 ,having had the experience of all the kingdoms below us1 the monad knows them1 and our all1 as far as human nature is concerned1 is that of which we are able to think2 therefore it is right to say1 that the real man knows that which the ordinary man comprises under the term all1 and even more1 because the all for the man of the present day is less than the all of those who served to clothe the monad at some earlier periods4 ,it thus seems to me that the object of the development of the thinking principle is not to arrive at a better knowledge of nature1 but to arrive at some knowledge in a certain way1 which way has to be learnt during certain periods of evolution4 ,discrimination has to be learnt1 and if one will learn how to avoid a wrong way1 he must pass it first1 or else it would remain unknown to him4 ,it seems a strange thing that man has to incarnate so many times during millions of years in order to develop the thinking principle1 and after having developed it1 abandon it as a wrong way4 ,but is it not the same with the evolution of all the principles in ,cosmos8 ,has not all to be gone through8 ,has not every plane of consciousness to give way to another8 ,we call them higher or lower--but what about such terms8 ,this is no loss1 it is a momentary necessity for a certain purpose of divine law1 and although less in one sense we gain and go forward in another1 and pass where we have to pass4 ,this must not be misunderstood1 and we must not say3 ,very well1 ,i have to develop intellect1 and ,i shall do it1 and shall not care for real knowledge which will all come in time4 ,this is sophistry4 ,through our will and endowed with the thinking principle we have to regain that knowledge which gradually has become latent while ,manas had to be developed1 or else we shall never regain it4 ,thus we have to work with ardent aspiration towards our highest ideals along the lines of nature and divine law2 thus we keep balanced1 and while doing every one of our daily duties1 we inwardly live a life of spirituality and in consciousness divine4 ,men who have not observed proper discipline1 and have not gained treasure in their youth1 perish like old herons in a lake without fish4 ,daily practical wisdom consists of four things3--,to know the root of ,truth1 the branches of ,truth1 the limit of ,truth1 and the opposite of ,truth4 ,when trust is gone1 misfortune comes in2 when confidence is dead1 revenge is born2 and when treachery appears1 all blessings fly away4 ,gems from the ,east4 ,,form ,,or ,,matter4 ,,by ,w4 ,e4 ,,gates4 ,from the old darky who preferred a railway wreck to one at sea1 because in the former you'se thar1 to the leaders of science1 the earth has been the symbol and type of permanence and solidity4 ,science has yielded one of these characteristics to force1 in positing the conservation of energy1 but it has never felt quite sure just where to place force in the ultimate analysis of things4 ,of matter however it has always felt sure--matter was a fact1 there has always been just so much in the universe1 and always will be just that much and no more or less4 ,of this matter1 to whatever extent its mechanical subdivision or chemical dissociation might be carried1 certain fundamental characteristics have been ever alleged--it occupies space and has weight4 ,weight is a general term1 used to denote the attractive force between two bodies of matter1 commonly called gravitation4 ,these two may be regarded as primary1 certain other familiar properties being only expressions of these under varying conditions4 ,we thus speak of matter as solid and impenetrable1 and say that two bodies cannot occupy the same place at one time4 ,we also speak of the chemical affinities of different atoms and of the cohesiveness of masses of matter1 both forms of attractive force4 ,we also say that this matter possesses1 or more strictly is1 substance--that is1 it is self-caused and self-sustaining4 ,that it is objectively real--indeed the most real conception we have4 ,we have finally one very important concept1 that of form1 whose relation to matter is most clearly expressed by the statement1 matter displays form4 ,form is a limitation of1 or in1 space1 and may be conceived of apart from matter1 but the latter is required for its manifestation to the senses1 by1 in the little boy's words1 drawing a line around your thinks4 ,we thus1 since all aggregations of matter are perpetually changing as to their forms1 do not attribute reality to form1 but for this so-called impermanence1 think of it as the least real thing we know1 the very opposite of matter1 an incident only of the latter and a very non-entity4 ,it is worthy however of remark that of these two1 matter and form1 both absolutely dependent on space for their existence 7although not an attribute of this in any way71 matter cannot be thought of without form1 but form can be thought of apart from matter1 as a mere limitation of emptiness4 ,in other words1 the idea of form must come before that of matter1 and is pre-essential to this4 ,by a purely deductive process this should lead us to question whether essential reality does not lie rather in the concept form than in the concept matter4 ,and a notable confirmation of this is given when we consider a common error of speech4 ,we say all forms change1 and naturally therefore attribute non-essentiality to form2 but we really mean to say matter is continually changing in form--leaving one form and entering into another4 ,this statement is a correct one1 and fully accords with the last word of physics to-day4 ,evolution has made it abundantly clear that the most lasting1 changeless1 adamantine thing in the manifested world is form4 ,nature grinds the rocks to powder and turns metals to gases in infinitely quicker time and with less effort than she modifies ever so little the forms of manifestation4 ,form ever recurs and matter--as we know it--again and again obediently fills the outlines4 ,but as if the deductive argument for the superiority of form over matter in its eternal existence were not enough1 inductive science as well is day by day dissolving so-called matter to nothingness1 or more strictly1 to a mere incident of form1 produced to meet the conditions of sense-perception4 ,a physical universe is daily becoming a less proven fact4 ,gravitation is laid down as a universal material law1 notwithstanding that certain facts attendant on cometary bodies had to be thereby incidentally slurred over1 but from the ,lick telescope we now hear that late observations indicate some other force than gravitation as the dominating one in certain nebul4 ,but a blow at the nebular hypothesis rocks the very citadel of the physical theory4 ,scientists some time ago postulated and have since by sheer necessity regarded the ether of space as proven to exist4 ,yet so difficult is it for us to modify the method or form of our apprehension of the world around us that the majority still prefer to work on through the paradox of a material universe1 which includes an ether lacking in the fundamental characteristics ascribed to matter4 ,all known matter has weight and obeys gravitation2 the ether1 by the very theory on which it rests1 does neither4 ,the transmission of material phenomena requires a material vehicle1 as is not only demonstrated by every day experience1 but is necessarily involved in a system holding that all phenomena are but incidents of matter1 the one only reality4 ,nevertheless any material vehicle1 however rarified1 gives rise to some friction when bodies pass through it1 retarding them2 the ether does nothing of this4 ,the relative distances between the molecules in the rarest gas are enormous2 the ether of science is said to fill all space homogeneously4 ,science indeed seems to have restored the worship of ,pater ,aither1 a god outside the material universe1 yet within every part of it and supporting it4 ,but they have new names for it all1 and in view of the peculiar opaqueness1 materiality1 which the expressions and forms wherein we do our so-called thinking seem to possess before the ,perceiver1 they may be forgiven for not recognizing their teaching in ,hesiod and ,lucian and the ,vedas4 ,the most illuminating suggestion in this whole matter we owe1 among physicists1 to ,lord ,kelvin1 in his vortex-ring theory of matter4 ,taking the rings of smoke puffed by a locomotive or a pipe1 and making allowances for the friction of the medium in which they revolve1 ,lord ,kelvin found a complete identity in behavior1 at every point of comparison he was able to institute1 between these rings and the individual atoms into which all matter is held to be divisible4 ,one most significant fact so demonstrated is that such a vortex-ring1 once brought into existence1 and being free from frictional or any other outside interference to break up its circuit of motion1 is eternal and indestructible1 an entity in itself4 ,the theory then is that an atom of matter is a vortex-ring in or of ether1 set up by some underlying force1 and that all the attributes displayed by material atoms are incidents of this vortex mode of motion4 ,its hardness is the same as the impenetrability of a whirlpool through which a swimmer cannot pass4 ,its stability is of the same sort as that of the tops1 held contrary to gravity by a cord on one end of the axis1 so long as they revolve rapidly--a principle utilized to give absolute rigidity to the steering gear of torpedoes4 ,and it is the simplest explanation of atomic affinities to suggest that it is the rate1 or coefficient1 of vibration 7vibration being another name for circuit of activity7 which determines the attractive or repellant force we see manifested4 ,and there is a most curious resemblance in all this to ,john ,worrell ,keeley's last theory--that each individual has a dominant coefficient of vibration1 which gives rise to and explains all our happy and unhappy associations in life1 so that as the newspapers hastened to say1 if we only knew how to find this note1 scientific inquests beforehand would drive the divorce courts out of business4 ,the music of the spheres1 the thought of individuals as notes in a universal concord are very poetic1 but inasmuch as music is the art of harmonic expressive vibrations manifested to sense as sound1 there is1 if ,lord ,kelvin1 and some others1 are right1 at least as much hard scientific fact in it all as imagery4 ,in short1 the leading fact of science to-day is plainly1 that ,nature draws forms which outline and illustrate the underlying realities of evolutionary progress1 and these forms are grasped by our sense-perceptions as endowed 7by virtue of the self-persistent and destruction-resisting nature given to them by the force that causes them7 with the attributes of hardness or impenetrability and mutual attraction4 ,differently stated1 what we call matter is in no sense substance1 and the attributes by which we describe it are only the effects produced upon our senses by contact with force-forms1 manifesting the life in nature4 ,so that the really substantial thing in life is seen to be form1 of which so-called matter is but an incident1 apparitional only1 and of little reality and no substantiality whatever--a term to express the condition of manifestation4 ,and what of all this1 some one may say4 ,the nature of atoms has only a remote interest to the problems of daily life1 save as medicine may be aided by chemical research or stronger ship armor invented by the metallurgist4 ,and as for music and poetry1 they are for our entertainment when serious affairs are laid aside4 ,to such there are two answers4 ,first of all1 a world made up of small1 hard1 ponderable atoms1 by some unshown causes arranged in an infinite variety of forms1 is a rather hopeless and uninspiring subject of research4 ,it meets admirably the type of mind which delights in dissection1 classification and labeling1 but if one should be interested to know what it is all about1 he might be readily pardoned for the conclusion that it is probably not about anything1 and has achieved the purpose of its being in the world when it has been properly catalogued4 ,but once the substance of things physical is found to consist in units of force1 conditioning space--force-forms as we have called them--of diverse characters1 the whole universe of matter becomes a wonderful study1 radiant with inspiration1 for its solution and meaning are enfolded in its every atom1 and in the very attributes by which they are manifested to our sense perceptions they hold and declare their message to the ,perceiver within4 ,and if each atom is the expression of a unit of force1 then so must every composite form be the expression of a harmony of forces1 else it could not stand1 and so must every event1 every scene in our lives and in the history of peoples1 every record of the earth1 every alphabet1 be a harmonic formula1 eloquent of the underlying truth1 the cause and meaning of life on earth4 ,form is the essentiality1 reality within gross matter1 so-called1 manifesting the divine thought1 which it sub-serves1 while the pseudo-matter of science is left to the place which that1 at last approaching the occult teaching1 assigns it--but sense illusion4 ,one other deeply important lesson lies in this recognition of ,form as the real of ,matter4 ,the bondage of the ,soul in matter1 its prison-house1 takes on a new meaning1 and the true nature of the great foe is revealed4 ,for if ,form is the great ,manifester1 so is it also1 once we forget that truth1 the great ,deluder4 ,just how the soul might get entangled in a world of small hard1 material atoms could never be quite clear to us1 nor could we see any relation between matter such as this and ,soul1 which we understood as ,consciousness1 ,wisdom1 ,thought4 ,the fact of the entanglement was too evident to be denied1 but why the soul should fiat itself such a prison house was another inscrutable bit of ,providence4 ,but if the real nature of material substance is seen to be form1 the manifester of ideas1 it is very clear wherein our bondage lies1 for the images produced by our lower minds1 the vehicles of the ,soul1 unless seen in their true light1 in very fact bind us tighter than any conceivable matter could do4 ,the children of our thoughts and of the thoughts of the race1 in this as in past lives1 the formulated ideas1 the mental habits1 are our prisons1 and the only prisons the soul knows4 ,but once this thought-form is given birth to1 invested with force from ourselves1 it persists a veritable material wall1 harder far than one of rocks and iron4 ,we are educated to the use of a certain phraseology1 and it is the hardest thing in the world for us to recognize the identical ideas1 differently clothed4 ,the idea of separateness1 crystallized into a form1 a habit 7garment1 clothing7 of thinking1 is what stands between us and an actual direct perception of an existing brotherhood and unity4 ,forms of mental activity are all that prevent our recognizing the meaning of facts when we see them4 ,scientific discoveries come by nothing in the world but the momentary freeing of the observer's mind from his preconceived views concerning the fact before him1 and events are happening in the world every day attention to which would make prophets and gods of every one1 if we did not know so much--superannuated rubbish--already4 ,it is excellent to impede an unjust man2 but if this be not possible1 it is excellent not to act in conjunction with him4 ,be not a friend to the wicked--charcoal when hot1 burns2 when cold it blackens the fingers4 ,gems from the ,east4 ,,students' ,,column4 ,,conducted ,,by ,j4 ,h4 ,,fussell4 ,does ,universal ,brotherhood imply condoning the faults of others1 or1 on the other hand1 condemning them8 ,no one can intelligently pursue the path of ,brotherhood without frequent and heavy condemnation of acts1 and of persons as revealed in their acts4 ,judge no man4 ,judge the act1 not the person4 ,is there a reconciliation between the three policies thus indicated8 ,in trying to follow the path of ,brotherhood and promote the best interests of our fellows1 we make a series of critical judgments4 ,seeing a cause about to come into operation1 we make a judgment as to whether its effects will promote ,brotherhood4 ,the usual causes are the acts of persons2 we judge whether their effects will be satisfactory2 deciding ,no1 we condemn such acts1 saying1 ,i regard ,smith as acting against the interests of ,brotherhood4 ,that is not to say ,the motive of ,smith in those acts is self-interest4 ,the chief point to be observed in my attitude is that ,i shall not injure ,smith's evolution4 ,our final judgment concerning most things is compound1 and the factors that enter into it are two4 ,these are 7#a7 ,,my self-originated judgment1 7#b7 the judgment of others1 expressed in words1 or1 more potently1 silently1 and in the last case subtly infusing itself into my mind and blending with my own proper judgment4 ,the resultant of these two factors is my final judgment4 ,the judgment that ,smith arrives at respecting his acts is1 therefore1 a blend of his opinion and of my opinion respecting their tendency1 and it is none the less true even if after consideration of my opinion he rejects it and leaves his own1 as he thinks1 unmodified4 ,but suppose ,i strongly think that ,smith acts from motives of self-interest4 ,i have made a judgment respecting ,smith as well as his acts4 ,am ,i wrong8 ,not necessarily4 ,my mind will become a mirror wherein ,smith may see himself and reform4 ,it will induce a self-examination that must be beneficial in tendency4 ,but if my judgment to that effect respecting ,smith is consciously or unconsciously colored with personal feeling1 that is1 if ,i consciously or unconsciously feel that ,smith's self-interestedly based actions may interfere with my personal interests or comfort1 then that feeling of potential or actual anger or irritation will tend1 not only to darken my judgment but that of ,smith1 and to excite similar detrimental emotions in him4 ,no human being can avoid making such judgments as to another4 ,the right counsel of perfection would be1 not to avoid them1 for the higher we go the more numerous are the people we have to help1 and1 therefore1 preliminarily to judge that intelligent help may be given2 but to aim at the exclusion of the personal self from the judgment1 making it as lofty as possible4 ,to judge should be to sympathize1 that is1 to feel like4 ,to judge ,smith is to understand him1 that is1 for a moment to feel as he feels4 ,to compare what ,i have thus sympathetically ascertained to be his feeling with my ideal of the highest feeling of a judgment on ,smith4 ,let us throw away fear2 learn to know ourselves and others1 and unhesitatingly compare with an ideal4 ,that men act wrongly is always from ignorance of even their own real welfare4 ,no judgment should1 therefore1 contain anger1 irritation1 or any similar feeling4 ,bearing that in mind as an ideal1 criticism and judgment become duties4 ,t4 ,n4 ,universal ,brotherhood does not necessarily imply either of these4 ,for the purposes of this question we may define ,brotherhood as acting towards others in such a way as to help them in their life and development1 at the same time regarding them as inseparable units of humanity4 ,now there may be and are times in the lives of all of us when the condoning of a fault1 i4 e41 the pardon or overlooking of a fault1 may be the greatest help4 ,then again there are times when the outspoken condemnation of a fault--not of a person--may be the one thing needed to help that person4 ,but ,brotherhood is not sentimentality1 it is justice as well as compassion1 it is that love for the real inner man that is not afraid of hurting the personal man when this is for the sake of principle and actuated by true love4 ,the sentimental condoning of a fault does not help and those who follow a sentimental idea of ,brotherhood too often swing to the other extreme and indulge in wholesale and unfounded condemnation1 not simply of a fault1 but of persons4 ,brotherhood is not extreme in either direction4 ,the middle path is the path of ,brotherhood1 this above all is the path of principle--the path of the principle of love and the principle of justice4 ,if we apply to our conduct the injunction3 do unto others as ye would they should do unto you1 we shall not go far wrong4 ,true it is that our responsibility increases as our knowledge increases and as the knowledge of the physician and surgeon may require him to amputate a limb or give temporary pain in order to save the patient's life1 so every true man is a physician and surgeon1 first in his own life and then in the lives of others4 ,on the other hand1 the true physician will often draw away the mind of the patient from his sickness or disease1 and how often can we not help a failing brother by apparently ignoring a fault and calling out the nobler side of the nature6 ,if we are true to the better side of our own natures we shall soon learn in what true ,brotherhood consists4 ,but no one can be a true ,brother to another who is afraid to apply the knife to his own failings1 or who is not honest in his own endeavors4 ,we students may make mistakes in our acts of ,brotherhood1 but if we keep in the light of the soul and keep our motives pure the realization of ,brotherhood will not be far distant4 ,j4 ,h4 ,,fussell4 ,whence arises the sense of duty8 ,in what does it originate8 ,it is above all things requisite that the expression of great ethical or moral or religious principles should be universally applicable4 ,that is to say1 they should take the simplest form4 ,most of our religious divisions are the result of an endeavour to make a local or special condition a standard to which all must conform4 ,great moral principles are as adaptable and as elastic 7and no more7 in their own sphere1 as great physical principles4 ,the laws of gravitation1 cohesion1 and the other great forces set duties for material objects to which the perfection of their evolution enables them to respond4 ,but circumstances alter cases4 ,a piece of ice will fall to the ground if dropped2 if released at the bottom of a pail of water it will rise to the top2 no further4 ,the duty of the ice in one case is to fall2 in the other1 to rise4 ,in the region of the soul duty is understood usually to be the sense of moral obligation4 ,we are told that duty is what we owe4 ,it is to be remembered that when we have done all we are unprofitable servants4 ,the talent hid in a napkin was duteously safe4 ,but there is a higher duty to ,him who gathers where ,he has not scattered4 ,what is due is1 in fact1 greater than what we owe4 ,the educative and evolutionary quality of our experience depends upon this4 ,and it is here that the distinction between the higher and lower duty may be found4 ,it is a principle in chancery law that he who seeks equity must do equity4 ,similarly those who desire to ascend or progress must fulfil all the lower stages of growth and be free of what they owe before they can undertake the rendering of their due4 ,renunciation also begins here4 ,the old story of the servant1 forgiven a large debt1 and turning on his fellow and debtor illustrates this4 ,the ceremonial law of the ,jews for example1 was an educative force in the direction of insuring the recognition of those in authority1 crude symbols of the divine4 ,our modern taxes and tariffs have precisely the same educative effect as the tithes and offerings of old1 the modern method reaching a more practical result4 ,there is a ,principle or ,power in the ,universe which provides for all creatures4 ,it is generally known as ,providence4 ,it is called ,god and ,karma and the ,law4 ,when men consciously ally themselves with this ,power they also become ,providers4 ,they learn that it is more blessed to give than to receive4 ,they also learn which is the river1 the water or the banks that confine the water4 ,the promptings of evolution1 of the ,kumara1 the immortal ,one that ensouls a man and makes him divine1 carry him forward along the line of least resistance4 ,it is the business of the river to reach the ocean1 not to break down the banks4 ,all this implies action1 and the formation of character4 ,while ,fohat is in manifestation1 duty means to act1 to do4 ,to do justice1 to love mercy1 to walk humbly before the inner god4 ,to love that ,holy ,one with all the heart and mind and strength1 and to see in one's brothers the same object of devotion is to conform to the will of the ,higher ,self4 ,duty on the lower levels of life is a means for the development of the lower manas or brain mind4 ,,ben ,,madighan4 ,let us dissect away certain overgrowths which obscure this point4 ,obedience to duty is often only conscious1 half conscious1 or unconscious fear of the consequences of neglect4 ,a child who has burned his finger thereafter dreads the flame1 and the dread persists when the memory of the burn has died out of his practical consciousness4 ,many honest people do not steal because they retain an unconscious memory of the disgrace attending a revealed theft in childhood or in a previous incarnation4 ,fear1 hope of reward or commendation1 these two1 whether conscious or existing in their effects as the fixed habit of performance1 must be eliminated as inspirers of action before we can see how much remains4 ,it is possible that with most of us not much of the pure golden sense of duty would remain in the bottom of the crucible4 ,actions whose performance is a duty are not always unpleasant4 ,for instance1 to eat is a duty1 because at a proper time the ,law1 manifesting as hunger1 demands it4 ,the ,law arises twofold2 outwardly it manifests as circumstance1 presenting at every moment a tangled maze of paths of which any one may be selected2 internally as the impulsion to select one particular path of these many4 ,in his spiritual thought1 the inner man has already traversed that path4 ,in outer fact it remains for the terrestrial man to imitate in the concrete4 ,the sense of duty is the reflection in the outer consciousness of this picture of action existing in the inner1 which picture1 in the inner world1 is action4 ,it may be dimly or brightly mirrored1 the sense of duty weak or strong2 its concrete imitation may be effected or not1 duty done or not4 ,,herbert ,,coryn4 ,,young ,,folks' ,,department4 ,a ,,christmas ,,story4 ,,by ,m4 ,s4 ,l4 ,it was a big toy shop in ,west ,twenty-third ,street4 ,there were crowds of people hurrying by1 for to-morrow would be ,christmas ,day and all those who had children to love were busy buying presents4 ,the shop windows looked very gay indeed4 ,there were all sorts of toys you could imagine4 ,lots of new mechanical toys1 steam engines that ran on a real track1 dancing bears and a cat which played the fiddle4 ,in the middle of the window was a tiny fir tree all lit up with colored lights and its boughs covered with gay ornaments4 ,santa ,claus was there1 too1 and on his back he carried a pack from which came a stream of candy and toys4 ,all these things pleased the little boys and girls very much4 ,there were a number of them out shopping with their parents4 ,the boys admired the mechanical toys1 but the little girls went straight to the other shop window where there were oh1 such a lot of dolls6 ,china dolls and wax dolls2 dolls from ,germany and dolls from ,france2 dolls that could say ,mamma1 ,papa1 and others that could even sing a little song and say ,now ,i lay me4 ,the finest doll was a young lady who had just arrived from ,paris4 ,mademoiselle ,fifine had brought with her a trunk of fine costumes and some of these were spread out beside her in the window1 to the great admiration of the other dolls4 ,there were pink silk frocks and blue satin ones2 hats and bonnets trimmed with real lace and ostrich feathers1 and1 in fact1 all sorts of nice clothes for evening wear and morning wear1 and all occasions4 ,away down in a corner of the big window were two little dolls that nobody noticed at all1 and this was strange1 for they were really very pretty2 but ,i suppose they were unnoticed in such a crowd of fashionable dolls4 ,one of these two was a little lady straight from ,japan1 and the other was a ,new ,york ,district ,messenger ,boy4 ,the ,japanese doll was dressed in a lovely gown of purple silk all covered with yellow butterflies4 ,her hair was done up in a shining black coil on the back of her head and was all stuck through with tiny jewelled pins4 ,in her tiny hand she carried a paper fan4 ,the little messenger boy stood very proudly beside her4 ,he wore a suit of dark blue clothes and on his head was a little cap such as the ,new ,york boys wear2 he carried a black book in his hand and looked very alert1 as though he were just about to deliver a telegram to you4 ,these two from the corner of the window all day had watched the people passing up and down the busy street4 ,that is1 the ,japanese doll had watched the passers by1 but the ,messenger ,boy had watched her more than anything else4 ,he thought she was the oddest and prettiest little lady he had ever seen2 her eyes were so black and shiny1 her cheeks so rosy and her tiny mouth just like a round red cherry4 ,and then she sat up so gracefully and held her fan with such an air6 ,she isn't a bit stiff1 thought the ,messenger ,boy1 ,i believe ,i will try to make friends with her4 ,so he cleared his throat and said ahem6 ,the ,japanese ,lady gave a tiny jump4 ,you see1 she was so surprised6 ,then she gave a shy look at the ,messenger ,boy and twirled her little fan4 ,she saw that the ,messenger ,boy was about to speak to her and this pleased her very much1 for the other dolls in the window had treated her with contempt and snubbed her because she was a foreigner4 ,even the ,french ,doll had refused to be friendly1 and this was rather odd1 because she was also a foreigner4 ,but she said the ,japanese ,doll was outlandish and had no style about her4 ,the ,japanese ,lady was too polite to make any rude remarks in answer1 so she had just remained silent4 ,she now began talking to the ,messenger ,boy and they soon became fast friends4 ,so satisfied were they with each other's society that they quite forgot the rude dolls4 ,it began to grow late in the afternoon and now very few children passed by4 ,but there were more big people than before2 they passed into the shop and soon the dolls began to go from the window4 ,mademoiselle ,fifine went and most of the pretty dolls followed4 ,nobody seemed to want the ,japanese ,lady or the ,messenger ,boy1 but they did not mind that at all1 for they were quite content to be together4 ,the ,japanese ,lady had described to the ,boy all the beautiful things she had seen in far away ,japan1 while the ,boy had told her in return of some of the wonderful sights to be seen in the big city4 ,they grew very confidential1 and at length their affection became so firm that they vowed to remain true friends as long as they were dolls1 which was another way of saying as long as they lived4 ,i have said that almost all the children had gone home because it was getting late1 and now the electric lamps were lighted1 but there were still four little girls who were looking in the gay window on ,twenty-third ,street4 ,two of them were nicely dressed and their bright faces peeped out from warm furs4 ,they looked so full of joy that it made your own face beam in return4 ,their nurse was with them and they were out doing their ,christmas shopping4 ,we've bought most all the presents we mean to give to-morrow1 and now we can each spend our very own two dollars1 said ,bessie4 ,yes1 answered her sister ,alice1 ,wasn't it nice in ,uncle ,frank to give us each two dollars to spend4 ,it's much nicer to buy your own present1 ,i think4 ,they were looking in the window of the toy shop as they spoke and both little girls at once spied our two friends in the comer of the window4 ,i am going to buy that dear little ,japanese doll1 said ,bessie4 ,and ,i want that cute little ,messenger ,boy1 said ,alice4 ,the ,japanese ,lady and the ,messenger ,boy looked very happy at this1 for they thought it would be very nice to go to live with two such dear little sisters4 ,so they smiled and nodded at ,bessie and ,alice1 but the little girls never saw it4 ,this was not strange1 for they had never heard that all the dolls come to life on ,christmas ,eve4 ,now all the time the two small sisters had been admiring the dolls1 there were two other children who were looking at them just as eagerly1 but who were very different in appearance from ,bessie and ,alice4 ,for these children were very poor indeed and did not expect to have any doll at all on ,christmas morning4 ,they lived away down in ,east ,fourteenth ,street with their big sister4 ,their mother and father were dead and the only one they had to take care of them was this good big sister who loved her two little sisters very dearly and did all she could for them4 ,they all lived together in two little rooms1 and ,maggie1 who was ten1 did all the housekeeping1 while ,annie1 who was eight1 helped her as much as she could4 ,they had just been to the great department store where the big sister worked and had left some supper for her1 because this night she would have to work until half-past eleven4 ,they were now on their way home1 but although they were very cold and shivered through the thin garments they wore1 they had to stop to see the beautiful dolls4 ,oh1 jest look at this little doll in the purple dress1 ain't she grand6 ,see the little yeller butterflies all over her6 ,i wisht ,i could have her for ,chrissmus1 said ,maggie4 ,i'd ruther have the little boy in the blue suit1 answered ,annie4 ,he looks jest like a fair messenger boy4 ,ain't he cute8 ,and the two children pressed their faces against the window in profound admiration of the wonderful dolls4 ,after a while they moved away4 ,in the meanwhile ,bessie and ,alice with their nurse had entered the toy shop4 ,after admiring the various things each purchased the doll she liked best4 ,these were carefully done up by the salesman and the two children started for home4 ,they were at the corner of ,broadway and about to cross for a cable car when ,bessie caught sight of our two little ,fourteenth ,street children4 ,oh1 nursie1 do let us see those two poor little girls4 ,they don't look as though they were going to have any ,christmas at all6 ,never mind them1 ,miss ,bessie1 it's time you were home4 ,but ,bessie would not be persuaded and ,alice seconded her4 ,mother likes to have us kind to our poor little brothers and sisters1 said she1 please nurse1 let us speak to those little girls4 ,so the nurse rather reluctantly consented and the two children hurried and soon caught up with ,annie and ,maggie4 ,how do you do1 said ,bessie1 all out of breath4 ,please1 wouldn't you like to have a ,christmas present8 ,we are going to have a whole lot of presents to-morrow and we bought these with our very own money4 ,please take mine1 and she thrust her package into surprised little ,maggie's arms4 ,and please do take my present1 said ,alice1 going to ,annie4 ,indeed1 ,i will have a lot more1 and she handed her package to the astonished little girl4 ,we wish you a happy ,christmas1 said the little girls in one voice1 and before ,maggie and ,annie could speak1 they had both hurried away4 ,to say that our children were astonished1 hardly expresses it4 ,they hugged their bundles and stood on the sidewalk staring after the two little girls as though bewildered4 ,maggie was the first to recover4 ,oh1 aint it too good to be true1 we'll have a real ,chrissmus1 now1 won't we8 ,what kind little girls them was1 wasn't they8 ,they wasn't a bit stuck up6 ,no1 indeed6 answered ,annie4 ,i'm so s'prised ,i don't know what to do4 ,but it was growing cold and the two children were forced to hurry along4 ,they did not say much as they hastened through the crowded streets but their hearts were dancing with joy4 ,when they at last reached home they rushed up the long tenement stairs and stopped in the hall before their door4 ,let's go to bed right now without opening our bundles1 said ,maggie1 and then to-morrow morning we can wake up and have a s'prise jest like we wuz rich children6 ,annie agreed to this and the two children were soon fast asleep in their small bed in the cold dark room4 99 99 99 99 99 ,on ,christmas morning two children in a beautiful home on ,madison ,avenue were dancing around their nursery full of happiness over the lovely presents that had been made ready for them during the night4 ,they had so many gifts that they never missed the two presents they had given to the poor little sisters the night previous1 until suddenly ,bessie clasped ,mademoiselle ,fifine in her arms and said3 ,oh1 you dear ,french dollie1 you are very beautiful1 but ,i do not think you are nicer than the sweet little ,japanese doll ,i saw in the shop window last night6 ,how ,mademoiselle ,fifine would have liked to turn up her tiny aristocratic nose at this1 but she couldn't4 ,and ,alice said1 ,do you know1 sister1 it seems to me that this is the loveliest ,christmas we have ever had4 ,i think it must be because we know that somewhere in this city there are two little girls who are having a ,christmas treat because of us4 ,it is quite true what mother taught us1 that ',it is more blessed to give than to receive4' ,down in ,east ,fourteenth ,street two little sisters had slept all night cuddled close together for warmth4 ,bright and early they waked up on ,christmas morning and ,maggie's first words were3 ,annie1 do you know ,i dremt that the little ,japanese doll we saw in the toy store wus in my bundle4 ,that's queer1 for ,i dremt that the messenger boy was in my package6 ,then ,maggie got her package and sat up in bed1 carefully undoing the wrappings of paper1 until1 at last1 smiling before her lay the little ,japanese ,lady6 ,and ,alice opened her parcel1 and1 when the last paper had carefully been removed1 there was the ,messenger ,boy all ready to say ,how do you do6 ,how very happy our two little girls were6 ,they got out of bed very softly1 so as not to disturb big sister1 who was very tired from her night's work1 and they danced around the cold room1 hugging their dollies and kissing each other and the dollies indiscriminately4 ,this is the very bestest ,chrissmus ,i ever had1 said ,maggie1 at last4 ,i only hope the two little rich girls have as nice a one1 added ,annie4 ,i'm very glad we came here1 aren't you8 softly called out the ,messenger ,boy to the ,japanese ,lady4 ,yes1 indeed1 replied she4 ,i'm sure these dear little girls will love us very much4 ,and we are not separated1 said the ,messenger ,boy4 ,the ,japanese ,lady did not reply to this1 but she smiled very sweetly and twirled her little fan4 ,,brotherhood ,,activities4 ,,universal ,,brotherhood ,,organization4 ,slowly the ,bible of the race is writ1 ,each age1 each kindred adds a verse to it4 ,illustration ,universal ,brotherhood or the ,brotherhood of ,humanity is an organization established for the benefit of the people of the earth and all creatures4 ,this organization declares that ,brotherhood is a fact in nature4 ,the principal purpose of this organization is to teach ,brotherhood1 demonstrate that it is a fact in nature and make it a living power in the life of humanity4 ,the subsidiary purpose of this organization is to study ancient and modern religion1 science1 philosophy and art2 to investigate the laws of nature and the divine powers in man4 ,this ,brotherhood is a part of a great and universal movement which has been active in all ages4 ,every member has the right to believe or disbelieve in any religious system or philosophy1 each being required to show that tolerance for the opinions of others which he expects for his own4 ,the ,theosophical ,society in ,america is the ,literary ,department of ,universal ,brotherhood4 ,the ,international ,brotherhood ,league is the department of the ,brotherhood for practical humanitarian work4 ,the ,central ,office of the ,universal ,brotherhood ,organization is at #add ,madison ,avenue1 ,new ,york ,city4#d ,,the ,,international ,,brotherhood ,,league4#e 7,unsectarian47 ,helping and sharing is what ,brotherhood means4 ,illustration3 ,i4,b4,l4 ,this organization affirms and declares that ,brotherhood is a fact in ,nature1 and its objects are3 #a4 ,to help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling and their true position in life4 #b4 ,to educate children of all nations on the broadest lines of ,universal ,brotherhood and to prepare destitute and homeless children to become workers for humanity4 #c4 ,to ameliorate the condition of unfortunate women1 and assist them to a higher life4 #d4 ,to assist those who are1 or have been1 in prison1 to establish themselves in honorable positions in life4 #e4 ,to endeavor to abolish capital punishment4 #f4 ,to bring about a better understanding between so-called savage and civilized races1 by promoting a closer and more sympathetic relationship between them4 #g4 ,to relieve human suffering resulting from flood1 famine1 war1 and other calamities2 and generally to extend aid1 help1 and comfort to suffering humanity throughout the world4 ,it should be noted that the officers and workers of the ,international ,brotherhood ,league are unsalaried and receive no remuneration1 and this1 as one of the most binding rules of the organization1 effectually excludes those who would otherwise enter from motives of self-interest4 ,none of the officers hold any political office1 the ,league is not connected with any political party or organization1 nor has it any political character1 it is wholly humanitarian and unsectarian4 ,the alterations referred to in last issue of ,,universal ,,brotherhood as about to be made in ,headquarters are now nearly completed4 ,the offices of the different departments have all been renovated presenting a very bright and cheerful appearance4 ,the rooms formerly used by the ,theosophical ,publishing ,company have been fitted up for the private office of our ,leader and for the ,reference ,library and ,reading ,room and for the office of the ,literary ,department of the ,universal ,brotherhood ,organization4 ,the ,theosophical ,publishing ,company has moved downstairs to the front basement and to the front office on the main floor 7in the front part of ,aryan ,hall7 which hitherto was used by our ,leader for her private office4 ,in every way the new arrangements will greatly facilitate the work of the various departments4 ,we are all delighted to have with us now as ,mother of the household1 ,mrs4 ,l4 ,e4 ,kramer1 who with her husband1 ,j4 ,o4 ,k4 ,kramer1 and her son ,ernest ,kramer have brought such a home feeling into ,headquarters that we are like a happy1 united family4 ,on ,december #ae1 #af1 #ag1 the ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 ,lodge1 ,u4 ,b4 ,no4 #aj1 held a bazaar in ,aryan ,hall4 ,it was throughout very successful and the entertainments on ,thursday and ,saturday evenings were much enjoyed4 ,the members of ,aryan ,lodge united with the ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 members in helping with the preparations and during the ,bazaar4 ,a large hamper of goods was sent from ,meriden1 ,conn41 which had been contributed by members in ,meriden1 ,hartford and ,new ,britain2 a contribution of articles was also sent from ,buffalo2 these were very much appreciated4 ,the ,h4 ,p4 ,b4 ,lodge is now entirely free from debt and enters upon the ,new ,year with fine prospects of success4 ,lately several new members have joined the ,lodge2 these are active young workers and are enthusiastic to help the ,cause4 ,several of the small articles left over from the ,bazaar were sent down to the ,east ,side ,mission where a ,christmas ,tree is to be given to the children4 ,mrs4 ,kramer1 ,mrs4 ,deen ,hunt1 and ,bros4 ,leonard and ,hecht are busy making preparations for this1 and it is being looked for to with great expectations by the children4 ,a ,bazaar was also held ,december #ae and #af by the ,u4 ,b4 ,lodges in ,boston in one of the largest and best halls1 centrally located on ,tremont ,street1 the main business street of the city4 ,it was one of the most successful events of the kind held this year in ,boston and has brought excellent financial results4 ,in accordance with suggestions made some months ago by our ,leader in this magazine1 the ,sioux ,city ,lodge of ,u4 ,b4 held a ,bazaar with excellent results4 ,part of the proceeds were taken for local work and part sent to the ,central ,office for the general work of the organization4 ,if all ,lodges would carry out work of this kind1 how they could build up their local work and also help the ,centre6 ,some of the other ,lodges have reported work in this direction1 but we have not yet received details4 ,a concert was recently given in ,providence1 ,r4 ,i41 for the benefit of the ,war ,relief ,fund of the ,i4 ,b4 ,l4 ,it was well attended and successful4 ,frank ,c4 ,berridge of ,victoria ,lodge1 ,b4 ,c41 writes ,dec4 #acth3 ,we are having a ,brotherhood concert here to-night and think it will be a great success4 ,we have started a ,lotus ,circle here at last and have ten children already4 ,we are to give them a ,christmas ,tree on ,new ,year's ,day4 ,the ,sunday evening public lectures are well attended and we are getting along nicely in ,victoria4 ,lodge #gj1 ,u4 ,b4 7,chicago71 held an entertainment ,dec4 #adth and realized a good sum for the ,war ,relief ,fund4 ,bro4 ,a4 ,m4 ,smith writes3 ,everything moves along well here4 ,our members are very united and have fullest confidence in and sympathy with the ,leader4 ,our meetings are very well attended4 ,letters from ,dr4 ,j4 ,a4 ,anderson and ,bros4 ,griffiths and ,johnson give favorable accounts of ,lodge work in ,san ,francisco1 and of both the ,u4 ,b4 and the ,i4 ,b4 ,l4 meetings4 ,several new members have recently joined4 ,the whole coast is looking forward to the ,u4 ,b4 ,congress at ,point ,loma4 ,bro4 ,beckett sends good news from ,toronto4 ,all the members are active and desire to still further aid the work and add to the success and solidarity of the movement4 ,the members of ,universal ,brotherhood will remember that soon after the last ,convention of ,february #ahth some of the members of the ,narada ,branch of the ,theosophical ,society in ,america1 ,tacoma1 ,wash41 who did not accept the ,universal ,brotherhood ,constitution brought suit against the ,tacoma ,u4 ,b4 ,lodge to obtain possession of the property of the ,lodge4 ,the case was non-suited and dismissed4 ,they then carried the case to the ,supreme ,court of ,washington1 and we have just received copy of the judgment as follows3 ,virginia ,herman et al1 ,appellants1 vs4 ,fred ,g4 ,plummer et al1 ,respondents4 ,,per ,,curiam3-- ,the parties to this action were all1 prior to ,march #c1 #ahih1 members of the ,narada ,theosophical ,society of ,tacoma1 a branch of a national organization known as the ,theosophical ,society in ,america4 ,this local branch was an independent body1 controlling its own property and governing itself subject to the right of appeal to the executive committee of the national body upon any disputed questions arising between the members4 ,the object of the present suit was to recover possession of certain property of the local society1 the appointment of a receiver and other relief1 the action being mainly based upon an alleged interference with the property rights of the plaintiffs as members of that ,branch1 and their rights as members in various respects4 ,at the close of plaintiffs' case1 on the evidence1 a judgment of non-suit and dismissal was granted and the present appeal is from that order and judgment4 ,we think the order was properly made4 ,section #ah of the ,by-,laws of the ,national ,society is as follows3 ,the ,executive ,committee shall be the ,court of final appeal in disputed questions arising between members or in and between branches4 ,it is not pretended that any effort was made by the plaintiffs to have the questions involved in the present dispute determined by the committee mentioned in that section1 and it is a well-established principle applicable to controversies like the present that until the members have exhausted their remedy within the society the ,courts will not assume jurisdiction of the controversy4 ,oliver v4 ,hopkins1 #aj ,n4 ,e41 #ggf2 ,lafond v4 ,deems1 #ha ,n4 ,y41 #ejg2 ,chamberlain v4 ,lincoln1 #abi ,mass41 #gj2 ,watson v4 ,jones1 #ac ,wall1 #fgi4 ,appellants seek to justify their failure to resort to the committee contemplated by section #ah1 supra1 upon the ground that that section was in effect abolished by the action of the national convention at a meeting in ,chicago in ,february1 #ahih1 which practically adopted a new constitution4 ,we think the argument advanced does not meet the objection4 ,plaintiffs are contending that the action of the national convention was invalid1 and if they are right in that respect the constitution and by-laws of the old body are still in force4 ,they have no standing if such is not the fact1 and if it is1 then the remedy provided by section #ah would appear to be ample4 ,but it does not appear that any effort has been made to obtain within the ,society a determination of the grievances1 and even were it admitted that the effect of the action of the national convention was to abolish the old constitution1 it in nowise follows that the by-laws theretofore adopted would also become ineffectual4 ,section #ah1 supra1 having been adopted for the government of the national body and its branches1 must be given effect until it is repealed either expressly or by necessary implication4 ,so that we think the learned trial judge was right in concluding that the ,court should not take jurisdiction of the case4 ,we think that we are right1 too1 in concluding that plaintiffs' evidence was insufficient to establish any interference with their rights as members to the enjoyment of the property1 books1 records1 etc41 of the local branch4 ,in other words1 plaintiffs failed to show that their rights as members had been invaded4 ,there was evidence by the officers of the local branch tending to show that a conclusion had been reached by them not to enforce the obnoxious resolutions previously passed1 and that they construed them to be invalid4 ,for these reasons we must conclude that the judgment was right and we do not deem it proper to attempt at this time to determine whether the action of the national convention was in effect an amendment of the old constitution and invalid because adopted without previous notice to the local branches1 or the adoption of a new constitution which retained the spirit and essence of the old and included no new provisions inconsistent with it and therefore within the right of the convention4 ,at present an opinion upon that important question would be at most mere dictum4 ,on ,december #bc;d we were very glad to welcome back to ,america ,brother ,a4 ,e4 ,s4 ,smythe1 of ,toronto4 ,brother ,smythe has been for some time in ,ireland and brings excellent and most encouraging reports of the work there and in ,england4 ,arrangements have been made for him to take a lecturing tour and visit the ,universal ,brotherhood ,lodges1 reaching ,point ,loma at the time of the annual ,universal ,brotherhood ,congress4 ,he will be in ,new ,york about ,january #ast and will stay at ,headquarters for a week or so and then start on his tour4 ,brother ,smythe is so well known throughout the country as ,editor of the ,lamp and by his work in ,toronto that he needs no introduction to the members4 ,many have already heard him lecture and will remember him at the annual conventions4 ,those ,lodges who desire him to visit them should write at once to the central office1 so that the route can be laid out and all arrangements made4 ,it was originally intended and hoped that ,bro4 ,d4 ,n4 ,dunlop would have made a lecture tour1 but as he would not be able to start until later1 other arrangements had to be made4 ,letters from ,liverpool report a very large ,bazaar being held there by the members4 ,it is confidently expected that it will meet with much success and much interest has been aroused in it4 ,bro4 ,herbert ,crooke has been indefatigable in pushing forward the preparations and ,mrs4 ,a4 ,l4 ,cleather and ,bro4 ,basil ,crump who have just completed their ,home ,crusade visit to ,dublin will be there to help4 ,a very beautiful and attractive programme has been arranged4 ,bro4 ,parsons in ,vancouver1 ,b4 ,c41 writes that the members are expecting a big step forward for the work as a result of the ,u4 ,b4 ,congress at ,point ,loma next ,april4 ,at ,buffalo on the occasion of the performance of ,eumenides1 some of the ,headquarters ,staff had the pleasure recently of meeting ,dr4 and ,mrs4 ,mc,alpin of ,warren1 ,pa4 ,their energies and interest in the work are unabated1 and on his way back ,bro4 ,mc,alpin lectured in several places4 ,the ,greek ,play ,eumenides was given in ,buffalo in the ,music ,hall1 ,dec4 #c;d1 in the afternoon and evening4 ,both performances were very successful4 ,there were large and very appreciative audiences1 many well-known educationalists being present and afterwards expressing their appreciation4 ,after the performance our ,leader was waited upon by several prominent people and congratulated on the work of the ,isis ,league of ,music and ,drama4 ,since returning to ,new ,york our ,leader has received a personal letter from one of the ,ministers of ,buffalo expressing his pleasure at witnessing the performance which he said was characterized by moral uplifting force and of more value than a sermon4 ,a very interesting letter has been received from ,bro4 ,st4 ,clair of ,new ,zealand in regard to work among the ,maories4 ,these people have made a great advance during the past two years4 ,the different tribes have united under their king and are reviving the ancient customs of the race4 ,many are becoming interested in ,brotherhood work and evidence on every hand is perceived that the race is awakening to a new life4 ,j4 ,h4 ,,fussell4 #d ,for further information address ,f4 ,m4 ,pierce1 ,secretary1 #add ,madison ,avenue1 ,new ,york4 #e ,address all inquiries to ,h4 ,t4 ,patterson1 ,general ,superintendent1 #add ,madison ,avenue1 ,new ,york4 ,,standard ,,theosophical ,,literature4 ,the ,secret ,doctrine4 ,the ,synthesis of ,science1 ,religion and ,philosophy4 ,by ,h4 ,p4 ,,blavatsky4 ,new and revised edition with ,index bound as a supplementary volume4 ,three volumes1 royal octavo1 cloth4 ,price1 complete1 #ab4ej1 carriage paid4 --,volume ,i1 ,cosmogenesis4 ,part #a1 ,cosmic ,evolution3 ,seven ,stanzas from the ,book of ,dzyan2 ,the ,builders2 ,the ,awakening of ,cosmos2 ,the ,septenary ,hierarchies3 ,fohat2 ,our ,world1 its ,growth and ,development2 ,the ,parents of ,man on ,earth4 ,part #b4 ,the ,evolution of ,symbolism3 ,symbolism and ,ideographs2 ,the ,mystery ,language and its ,keys2 ,primordial ,substance and ,divine ,thought2 ,chaos1 ,theos1 ,kosmos2 ,on the ,hidden ,deity2 ,the ,mundane ,egg2 etc4 ,volume ,,ii1 ,anthropogenesis3 ,twelve ,stanzas from the ,book of ,dzyan2 ,nature ,unaided ,fails2 ,attempts to ,create ,man2 ,creation of the ,first ,races2 ,the ,evolution of the ,second ,race2 ,the ,evolution of the ,sweat-born2 ,from the ,semi-,divine down to the ,first ,human ,races2 ,the ,final ,creation of ,man2 ,the ,history of the ,fourth ,race2 ,the ,civilization and ,destruction of the ,fourth and ,fifth ,races2 etc4 ,isis ,unveiled4 ,a ,master ,key to the ,mysteries of ,ancient and ,modern ,science and ,theology4 ,by ,h4 ,p4 ,,blavatsky4 ,royal #hvo1 #b volumes1 about #aejj pages4 #g4ej4 --,a marvellous book both in matter and manner of treatment4 ,the index alone comprises about #ej pages1 and such a list of subjects was probably never before compiled4 ,key to ,theosophy4 ,by ,h4 ,p4 ,,blavatsky4 ,a clear exposition in the form of question and answer of the ,ethics1 ,science and ,philosophy1 for the study of which the ,theosophical ,society was founded4 ,with a ,glossary of general ,theosophical terms and an ,index4 ,cloth1 #abmo1 gilt top1 uncut edges1 #a4ej4 ,light on the ,path4 ,a treatise written for the personal use of those who are ignorant of the ,eastern ,wisdom1 and who desire to enter within its influence4 ,written down by ,m4 ,c41 ,fellow of the ,theosophical ,society4 ,with notes and comments by the author4 ,paper1 embossed cover1 #be cents2 cloth1 gilt side stamp1 #dj cents2 red leather1 red edges1 round corners1 #ge cents2 black morocco1 gilt edges1 round corners1 #a4jj2 soft brown morocco1 gilt top1 uncut edges1 wide margins1 #a4ej4 ,this work is a classic and has gone through several editions4 ,karma4 ,a study of the ,law of ,cause and ,effect in relation to ,rebirth or ,reincarnation1 ,post-mortem states of ,consciousness1 ,cycles1 ,vicarious ,atonement1 ,fate1 ,predestination1 ,free ,will1 ,forgiveness1 ,animals1 ,suicides1 etc4 ,by ,,jerome ,a4 ,,anderson1 ,m4,d41 ,f4,t4,s4 #hvo1 pp4 viii-#abf4 ,price1 in paper #ej cents2 cloth #a4jj4 --,this new work by the well-known and forceful writer of ,septenary ,man1 and ,reincarnation1 completes a triad of volumes covering1 in a scientific and logical manner1 the problems most often presented to students and inquirers in the ,theosophical world4 ,the title sufficiently indicates the scope of the work1 and the name of the author is guarantee of its value4 ,the ,ocean of ,theosophy4 ,by ,,william ,q4 ,,judge4 ,giving a clear and connected idea of the fundamental principles of the ,wisdom ,religion4 ,contents3 ,chapter ,i1 ,theosophy and the ,master2 ,chapter ,,ii1 ,general ,principles2 ,chapter ,,iii1 ,the ,earth ,chain2 ,chapter ,,iv1 ,septenary ,constitution of ,man2 ,chapter ,v1 ,body and ,astral ,body2 ,chapter ,,vi1 ,kama-,desire2 ,chapter ,,vii1 ,manas2 ,chapter ,,viii1 ,of ,reincarnation3 ,chapter ,,ix1 ,reincarnation--continued2 ,chapter ,x1 ,arguments supporting ,reincarnation2 ,chapter ,,xi1 ,karma2 ,chapter ,,xii1 ,kama ,loka2 ,chapter ,,xiii1 ,devachan2 ,chapter ,,xiv1 ,cycles2 ,chapter ,,xv1 ,differentiation of ,species--,missing ,links2 ,chapter ,,xvi4 ,psychic ,laws1 ,forces1 and ,phenomena2 ,chapter ,,xvii1 ,psychic ,phenomena and ,spiritualism4 ,eighth thousand4 ,paper1 #be cents2 cloth1 #ej cents4 ,echoes from the ,orient4 ,a broad outline of ,theosophical ,doctrines4 ,by ,,william ,q4 ,,judge4 ,attractively bound in light cloth with colored side stamp4 ,fifth edition1 #ej cents4 ,the ,bhagavad ,gita4 ,sixth ,american ,edition1 revised by ,,william ,q4 ,,judge4 ,printed on antique paper1 bound in flexible morocco with gilt edges and round corners1 #a4jj4 ,flexible red leather1 round corners and red edges1 #ge cents4 ,letters that have ,helped ,me4 ,compiled by ,,jasper ,,niemand4 ,printed on handsome super-calendered paper1 same size page as the ,ocean of ,theosophy4 ,light cloth with olive-green 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