From Architecture Down To The Zodiac, Every

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.

Every One Of The Numberless Religions And Religious Sects Views The Deity After Its Own Fashion; And, Fathering On The Unknown Its Own Speculations, It Enforces These Purely Human Outgrowths Of Overheated Imagination On The Ignorant Masses, And Calls Them "revelation." As The Dogmas Of Every Religion And Sect Often Differ Radically, They Cannot Be True. And If Untrue, What Are They?

Little Do The Devout Worshippers Of The Vatican Suspect, When They Lift Up Their Eyes In Mute Adoration Upon The Head Of Their God On Earth, The Pope, That What They Admire, Is After All, But The Caricatured Head-dress, The Amazon-like Helmet Of Pallas Athene, The Heathen Goddess Minerva! In Fact, There Is Scarcely A Rite Or Ceremony Of The Christian Church That Does Not Descend From Occultism.

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

If Coming Events Are Said To Cast Their Shadows Before, Past Events Cannot Fall To Leave Their Impress Behind Them.