Part 15 (1/2)
I want to ain I like his style
I a after? I cannot say, for education is life and what the aim of life is no one knows Psycho-analysis can clear up a life; it can release bottled up energy, but it cannot say how the released energy is to be used The analyst cannot advise, because no man can tell another how to live his life Freud clears up the past, but he cannot clear up the future
Is there such a thing as Re-incarnation? I wonder A the life that my past lives on earth fittedfrom a severe neurosis it is because I earned this punishht to cure hty If, as I have heard a Theosophist declare, the children in the slums are miserable because they failed to learn their lesson in previous lives, then the people who try to abolish sluue that the charitable person is growing in grace, thereby rising above his previous lives And thus one soul helps another to rise to perfection It may be, and I hope it is so, for then life would have aPain and ould then be less terrible, for they would be but incidents in the eternal unfolding of perfection
Yet I find ain I do not know it, and I am left in doubt as to whether I may not have been Charles Peace instead Possibly I was both
Then there is psychical research I have been to a s that all the psycho-analysis in the world cannot account for I want to believe that the dead can speak to us, but where are the dead? I have read Sir Oliver Lodge's _Rayiven there Frankly I don't fancy it, and I have no desire to go there
How then can I attempt to educate children when the ultiive the, but that is all the uide their footsteps This is the final argument for the abolition of authority We may beat and break a horse because we selfishly require a horse's service, and according to the accepted view a horse has no immortal soul We dare not beat and break a child, for a child is going to an end that we cannot know
I like the Theosophist schools, although I do not like all Theosophists Soher life consciously, and repressing their lower natures Most of theo to her plane, but it is not living fully Still, in many ways they are broad-minded In their schools they do not force Theosophy down the children's throats; they allow a great amount of freedom, but their schools are not free schools There is a definite atteood taste I am quite sure that no head-master of a Theosophical School would take his children to see a Charlie Chaplin filher life; he stands for the vulgar side of life; he picks up girls and gets drunk (in the play) and is sea-sick and very vulgar about soda-water
I findon the inclusion of Charlie in any scheht to be shocked at sea-sickness and soda-water squirting Charlie to her-plane crowd; he and his kind are as essential as Shelley
I adher kind of pleasure than watching ”Chaher plane, and no child wants to Education her plane diet will produce hot-house plants, beautiful perhaps, but delicate and artificial
Old Willie Murray the cobbler had been bed-ridden for over a year, and when I dropped into Dauvit's shop thisDauvit that his oldwhen I entered, ”I'm no the kind that speaks ill o' the deid, but I will say this, that Wull Murray had his faults Aye, and though he's a corp the day, I canna pertend that he was ony freend o' one Dauvit turned to me with a queer smile
”Dominie, you tell me that you have studied the science o' the y,” I said
”That's the word Weel then, dominie, just tell me why Mary Rickart had sic a pick at auld Willie Murray”
I shtfully
”It's difficult, Dauvit I haven't got enough evidence However I think I can uess”
”Weel?”
”Mary and Willie sat in the same class at school?”
”Good!” said Dauvit, ”they did”
”And Mary was Willie's first sweetheart?”
”Imphm!”
”Mary loved Willie and he loved her They were sweethearts for a long time, but another damsel came and stole Willie's heart away Mary wept bitter tears, but in tied into hate”
Dauvit chuckled