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The Immediate Future
The Immediate Future
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The Immediate Future," and the titles of the lectures are: 1. Impending Physical Changes; 2. The Growth of a World Religion; 3. The Coming of a World Teacher; 4. Social Problems: Self-Sacrifice or Revolution? 5. Religious Problems: Dogmatism or Mysticism? 6. The Emergence Of A World-Religion 7. England And India
In its issue of May 31st,1910, on the editorial page of "The American Theosophist" contained a striking tribute to the work of Annie Besant:
"It is doubtful whether any living woman is exercising an influence so great and widespread as that of Mrs. Annie Besant.
She has the ear of the civilised world, and is listened to by an ever-increasing multitude in both hemispheres. Within the past week impressive tributes have been paid to her genius by two of the most outstanding personalities of the time. Rev. R. J. Campbell has hailed her not only as a 'famous orator,' but also as a 'great religious teacher,' and describes her lecture on 'The Emergence of a World Religion,' as 'one of the most wonderful addresses I have ever heard in my life.'
"Mrs. Sidney Webb welcomes her as the great leader of religious thought in two continents, who by her extraordinary magnetism and oratory and power of thought has created a bridge between the intellect of the West and the soul of the East.
"In Saturday's 'Westminster Gazette' Dr. R. F. Horton refers to the 'profounder revelation' of Mrs. Besant or Madame Blavatsky. It is the arduous and devious path by which Mrs. Besant has travelled to the position she now occupies—from credulity through doubt and atheism and materialism to assured spiritual faith—that lends value and impressiveness to her present testimony and counsel. She is, above everything else, a witness to the reality and supremacy of the spiritual. She has come to regard religion—the great truths common to all the faiths of the world—as the most enduring and most potent factor in the life of the race.
"As Mrs. Webb remarked on Friday, without the inspiration of religious feeling no effort can avail to complete the progress of humanity. We cannot follow Theosophy in all its theories, but we confess ourselves in hearty sympathy with its fundamental principles—namely, "To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour; to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science; to investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
"Mrs. Besant's public utterances reveal the mind of a statesman as well as the soul of a mystic. In her lecture in this issue she speaks as a religious seer and prophet, and we count it a privilege to be the channel for communicating this utterance to the world at large. We have never listened to anything finer or truer than the closing portion of Mrs. Besant's Memorial Hall deliverance, and we believe our readers will have similar feeling when they peruse her wise and glowing words in our next issue. Mrs. Besant, as we understand her, is in hearty sympathy with the twin movement of democracy and socialism, whether in Britain or India or elsewhere, but she reminds us that individuals must be educated and trained and disciplined before they can fitly discharge the highest responsibilities of citizenhood."
In its issue of May 31st,1910, on the editorial page of "The American Theosophist" contained a striking tribute to the work of Annie Besant:
"It is doubtful whether any living woman is exercising an influence so great and widespread as that of Mrs. Annie Besant.
She has the ear of the civilised world, and is listened to by an ever-increasing multitude in both hemispheres. Within the past week impressive tributes have been paid to her genius by two of the most outstanding personalities of the time. Rev. R. J. Campbell has hailed her not only as a 'famous orator,' but also as a 'great religious teacher,' and describes her lecture on 'The Emergence of a World Religion,' as 'one of the most wonderful addresses I have ever heard in my life.'
"Mrs. Sidney Webb welcomes her as the great leader of religious thought in two continents, who by her extraordinary magnetism and oratory and power of thought has created a bridge between the intellect of the West and the soul of the East.
"In Saturday's 'Westminster Gazette' Dr. R. F. Horton refers to the 'profounder revelation' of Mrs. Besant or Madame Blavatsky. It is the arduous and devious path by which Mrs. Besant has travelled to the position she now occupies—from credulity through doubt and atheism and materialism to assured spiritual faith—that lends value and impressiveness to her present testimony and counsel. She is, above everything else, a witness to the reality and supremacy of the spiritual. She has come to regard religion—the great truths common to all the faiths of the world—as the most enduring and most potent factor in the life of the race.
"As Mrs. Webb remarked on Friday, without the inspiration of religious feeling no effort can avail to complete the progress of humanity. We cannot follow Theosophy in all its theories, but we confess ourselves in hearty sympathy with its fundamental principles—namely, "To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour; to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science; to investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
"Mrs. Besant's public utterances reveal the mind of a statesman as well as the soul of a mystic. In her lecture in this issue she speaks as a religious seer and prophet, and we count it a privilege to be the channel for communicating this utterance to the world at large. We have never listened to anything finer or truer than the closing portion of Mrs. Besant's Memorial Hall deliverance, and we believe our readers will have similar feeling when they peruse her wise and glowing words in our next issue. Mrs. Besant, as we understand her, is in hearty sympathy with the twin movement of democracy and socialism, whether in Britain or India or elsewhere, but she reminds us that individuals must be educated and trained and disciplined before they can fitly discharge the highest responsibilities of citizenhood."
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