THEOSOPHY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3384, 27 November 1911, Page 2

THEOSOPHY.

MISS CHRISTIE'S FAREWELL

ADDRESS. .

Miss C. W. Christie, who has been lecturing in Gisborne lor some little time delivered the last of (her addresses here’ yesterday afternoon in His Majesty’s Theatre, when she discoursed for "an hour on the general aspects of theosophy and the alter death states of a number of types of men. Mr Lockett introduced the speaker, who prefaced her remarks by saying that the. teachings of theosophy seemed extraordinary to Christians when placed side by side with the teachings they had been all their lives accustomed to, so that it was hard for them to conceive the real truth of it. Along the lines of the Christian life everything had to be taken on faith, and the church’s salvation was a matter of belief, hut with the theosopliists no one was asked to believe anything that did not apjieal to their reason. Proceeding she said that it had been proved to lier that there were after death states, and it had also been proved to all but the superficial minds that the dead could be communicated with. The ..peaker went on to say that the elements which constituted our earthly forms were only small deposits of the soul, the greater part remaining in heaven. When the body became diseased, or, for sonic other reason, became a defective instrument, the soul withdrew. Miss Christie then went on to tell her auditors what became of certain types in the after world. When the average man died the soul escaped from the top of the head, and those possessed of spiritual vision then saw a violet gray cloud swinging gently back and forth over the head. This remained so for thirty-six hours, and this was the period of the soul’s meditation oyer the acts of life. Weeping and wailing over the dead, said the speaker, always disturbed this reflection and should he discountenanced on that account. She cited in support of tin’s belief instances l of dreams, and said that they could, by j means of the visions tliat came during S sleep, be made of use in directing the course of life here. Many after death states were dealt with, and of the viviseetionist Miss Christie said that he was in the next world simply surrounded by the moaning, shrieking entities of the animals he had slain on earth until it was almost impossible for the rescuing spirits to reach him. In conclusion the speaker said she would like them to remember three things, namely : that the desires of this life make the habits in the next life; actions in this life give environment in the next, and that the present life was the result of a former one, and the next life would he the result of this one. Miss Christie left for the south by the Mokoia last evening.