Hast Thou Attuned Thyself To The Suffering

It Is, Then, By Those Shadows Of The Hoary Past And Their Fantastic Silhouettes On The External Screen Of Every Religion And Philosophy, That We Can, By Checking Them As We Go Along, And Comparing Them, Trace Out Finally The Body That Produced Them.

To Act And Act Wisely When The Time For Action Comes, To Wait And Wait Patiently When It Is Time For Repose, Put Man In Accord With The Rising And Falling Tides (of Affairs). So That With Nature And Law At His Back, And Truth And Beneficence As His Beacon Light, He May Accomplish Wonders. Ignorance Of This Law Results In Periods Of Unreasoning Enthusiasm On The One Hand, And Depression On The Other. Man Thus Becomes The Victim Of The Tides When He Should Be Their Master.

Dogma? Faith? These Are The Right And Left Pillars Of Every Soul-crushing Theology. Theosophists Have No Dogmas, Exact No Blind Faith.

The Occultists, However, Know That The Traditions Of Esoteric Philosophy Must Be The Right Ones, Simply Because They Are The Most Logical, And Reconcile Every Difficulty.

Even In Our Day, Science Suspects Beyond The Polar Seas, At The Very Circle Of The Arctic Pole, The Existence Of A Sea Which Never Freezes And A Continent Which Is Ever Green.