But, If The Knowledge Of The Occult

The Secret Doctrine Is The Common Property Of The Countless Millions Of Men Born Under Various Climates, In Times With Which History Refuses To Deal, And To Which Esoteric Teachings Assign Dates Incompatible With The Theories Of Geology And Anthropology.

Meditation Has Been Defined As The Cessation Of Active Eternal Thought.

Science Regards Man As An Aggregation Of Atoms Temporarily United By A Mysterious Force Called The Life-principle. To The Materialist The Only Difference Between A Living And A Dead Body Is, That In The One Case That Force Is Active, In The Other Latent. When It Is Extinct Or Entirely Latent, The Molecules Obey A Superior Attraction, Which Draws Them Asunder And Scatters Them Through Space. This Dispersion Must Be Death, If It Is Possible To Conceive Such A Thing As Death Where The Very Molecules Of The Dead Body Manifest An Intense Vital Energy.

I Speak "with Absolute Certainty" Only So Far As My Own Personal Belief Is Concerned. Those Who Have Not The Same Warrant For Their Belief As I Have, Would Be Very Credulous And Foolish To Accept It On Blind Faith. Nor Does The Writer Believe Any More Than Her Correspondent And His Friends In Any "authority" Let Alone "divine Revelation"!

This Law -- Whether Conscious Or Unconscious --predestines Nothing And No One. It Exists From And In Eternity, Truly, For It Is Eternity Itself; And As Such, Since No Act Can Be Co-equal With Eternity, It Cannot Be Said To Act, For It Is Action Itself...karma Creates Nothing, Nor Does It Design. It Is Man Who Plans And Creates Causes, And Karmic Law Adjusts The Effects; Which Adjustment Is Not An Act, But Universal Harmony, Tending Ever To Resume Its Original Position.