Excerpt from The Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 12To supplement that part of the work of the Annual Convention of The Theosophical Society which is for members only, it is the custom to arrange for a Lecture, to which all are welcome who are sufficiently interested in the thought and activities of the Theosophical Movement to wish to come. This year, at the close of the Convention, the annals of which are to be found in the present number, such a Lecture was delivered, the title being: Modern Problems and the Theosophic Life.The Lecturer, who spoke from thirty years' experience of the Theosophical Movement, began by saying that, a generation ago, Theosophy was a sensation; then it became a scandal; later, it came to be regarded as a body of teaching, a system of metaphysics; while, at present, those who have seen it pass through all these stages, have become convinced that Theosophy is a life. Let us suppose then, said the Lecturer, that a group of people had diligently set themselves to live that life - whose character and significance might perhaps be considered more at length later on - and had in some measure succeeded in so doing. What would be their view of some of our modern problems, their view, as the fruit of living the Theosophic Life?To begin with, they would tend to regard all problems of life as problems of the will; the supreme problem being, to find out the Divine Will - the Will of God - and to obey that. So that their tendency would be to ask how this or that problem looked, viewed in the light of the Divine Will.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com