The Truth Seekers?

 HlGHÊR THOUGHT LECTURES. Sunday 14 August 1910 Sunday Times (Perth, West Australia 1902 - 1954)

Sister Veni Cooper-Mathieson(Mrs. Amanda Malvina Thorley Gibson

) will deliver a lecture in the Literary Institute Hall, Hay-street, to-night, on "The Evolution of the Soul, or Man's Power to Think." The lecture will commence at 7.30 o'clock. A collection will be made.

In the early decades of the twentieth century the tireless Veni Cooper-Mathieson who founded – among other orders and institutions – the Home of Truth Esoteric College, the Church Universal, the Universal Truth Publication Company, taught that Australia was the “land of the dawning.”

The pioneer work of Sister Veni Cooper-Mathieson in Australia began in 1903, under the title of "The Woman's White Cross Moral Reform Crusade," and a three years' lecture course in Sydney on "The Truth Seekers." The first magazine, The Truth Seeker, was established in January, 1905. In April, 1909, the Church Universal in Perth, Western Australia, was organized. In December, 1914, this church was moved to Sydney, and a Truth Centre was established. The first magazine was united with The Healer and called The Revealer, in 1915, the year of the founding of The Universal Truth Publishing Co. of Australasia. A Home of Truth was also established that year. History of the New Thought Movement Chapter 12 - Horatio W. Dresser

DEDICATED

TO

" THE CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION."

GREETINGS : To the four hundred and forty and four thousand having His Father's name written in their foreheads and who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. For these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God

and the Lamb.-=—(Revelations xiv, 1-4.)

BELOVED ! To you, the Children of the Resurrection, do I venture to offer these first-fruits of my Resurrected Soul with sincere humility and sacred joy, for verily they are the  living coals off the altar of a heart purified by suffering and redeemed by Divine Love.

To those whose feet are already planted upon Mount Zion and who, knowing as they are known, now behold the King in His beauty in a Land that is not very far off : to such I would humbly submit this firstborn of my soul in the hope that it will be accepted in the spirit in which it was created—the spirit of Universal Love—and all its weaknesses generously overlooked, while 1 ask that their illuminating thought be given unto me that I too may have greater spiritual strength accorded, to enable me to climb higher and still higher to that City set on a Hill.

To those whose strong voices have echoed down the aisles of Time and through their written thoughts have reached my straining ears long yearning to hear the message they wafted down to the listening ones of earth, out of the silence of the ages : to these I tender my heartfelt thanks with glad greetings and Love. These are the heralds of the Kingdom of God and His Christ, and they shall have right to the Tree of Life, and shall enter in through the Gates into the Heavenly City. To those who are still struggling in the valley of doubt, and are weary and heavy-laden w ith the burden of sorrow and dark despair ; to such as wander through the Vale of Tears wondering if there be a God or is He dead ? To such I cry with a loud voice : " Ho ! every one that thirsteth, come drink of the living waters, and he that hath no money come buy and eat, without money and without price." Yes, "Thy God reigneth!" So "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God!" To these sad and seeking ones of earth I would pray that these thoughts and the story of one who struggled and suffered and overcame, may prove helpful and inspiriting, and may also encourage them to climb on, climb ever ! for there's light on the hill top to guide every earnest seeking soul home to its Father's House, where a rest abideth for the people of God, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more sorrow and sighing, for the former things are passed away and behold ! all things are made new. Then, struggling souls, press onward. There's always help at hand if ye will but ask and seek in faith and prayer!

To the reader who reads but does not yet understand, I would venture to remark that TRUTH has many aspects, like the views seen by one who is climbing a high mountain ; therefore, until, like the mountain climber, you have reached the summit and from every point beheld its glorious vistas stretching away in the distance, it would be but kind and wise to defer judgment. In the meantime, to such I wish a hearty God-speed!

To all who run and all who read, do I give warm and loving greetings in the Spirit of Love and Life ; while I testify that I am but thy fellow-servant, and that these sayings are faithful and true. For the Lord God of the holy prophets of old sent His Spirit to show unto me His servant the things that are written in this book.

Then surely the Lord Jesus Christ will come quickly, for now are we in the latter days ; therefore all faithful souls unite in saying, " Even so come, Lord Jesus," and reign in the hearts of Thy many brethren, and set up Thy Kingdom here upon earth, where God the Father shall dwell among us for ever and throughout all eternity.

With sisterly Love, as the Handmaiden of the Lord,

I am, yours in the testimony of Jesus,

VENI COOPER-MATHIESON.

January sth, 1906.

Sydney, N.S.W.,

Australia.

AUSTRALIA

To eastward, when cluster by cluster

Dim stars and dull planets that muster,

Wax wan in a world of white lustre

That spreads far and high.

In the gathering of night-gloom o'erhead in

The still silent change ;

All fire-flushed when forest trees redden

On slopes of the range.

When the gnarled knotted trunks eucalyptian

Seem carved, like weird columns Egyptian,

With curious device—quaint inscription,

And hieroglyph strange.

In the Spring when the wattle gold trembles

'Twixt shadow and shine,

When each dew laden air draught resembles

A long draught of wine ;

When the sky-line's blue burnished resistance

Makes deeper the dreamiest distance.

Some song in all hearts hath existence

—

Such songs have been mine. —Adam Lindsay Gordon, " A Dedication.

AUSTRALIA, Land of the Dawning, all hail

MARRIAGE OF SOULS,

A METAPHYSICAL NOVEL

BY

VENI COOPER-MATHIESON

THE TRUTH-SEEKER PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1914.

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Friday 1 June 1934

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Friday 25 May 1934 WOMAN CLAIMS POWER TO HEAL GROWTHS.

Attempted Fraud Charge

Follows Visit By Police Officers.

HOBART, Thursday,

A case which created much amusement was heard at the City Police Court to-day by Mr. H. B. White, P.M., when Sister Deni Cooper Mathieson was charged with having on April ll and 12 endeavored to defraud B. D. Burton, a police officer, of a sum of money by false representations. She claimed to be able to cure growths. The defendant was dressed iu a white flowing robe, with a girdle round her waist, a stole round her neck, and peculiar headgear. She conducted her own case, and pleaded not guilty. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68169567

UNIVERSAL TRUTH CO.

Gibson v Phlppard.

Mrs. W. A. Parker, Instructed by Mosers. Pigott and Stinton, appeared for the plaintiff. Amanda Malvina Thorley Gibson (commonly known as Veni Cooper Mathieson); and Mr."D. Maughan, Instructed by Messrs., Harold T. Morgan and Morgan, for the defendant. Henry Phlppard. The statement of claim set out that the plaintiff and the defendant , since September, 1315, carried on, and still carry on, at Elisabeth-street, Sydney, and at Paddington, the business of book and magazine publishers, booksellers, and printers, under the style of the Universal Truth Company of Australasia. Every month the company published a magazine. Plaintiff alleged that the defendant wrongfully i :-excluded her from tile. management of the business.

The plaintiff moved for an order dissolving the partnership, winding up the business, and for the appointment of a receiver. Also that the goodwill, etc.. of the business be sold, -and the proceeds divided between the parties, after payment of liabilities.

By consent, the motion was turned Into a .motion for decree for the dissolution of the partnership, upon certain terms, filed In Court, which provides for the payment of existing liabilities and for other details.

Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday June 14, 1917