Hast Thou Attuned Thyself To The Suffering

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.

It Is On The Acceptance Or Rejection Of The Theory Of The Unity Of All In Nature, In Its Ultimate Essence, That Mainly Rests The Belief Or Unbelief In The Existence Around Us Of Other Conscious Beings Besides The Spirits Of The Dead.

The Possible Truths, Hazily Perceived In The World Of Abstraction, Like Those Inferred From Observation And Experiment In The World Of Matter, Are Forced Upon The Profane Multitudes, Too Busy To Think For Themselves, Under The Form Of Divine Revelation And Scientific Authority. But The Same Question Stands Open From The Days Of Socrates And Pilate Down To Our Own Age Of Wholesale Negation: Is There Such A Thing As Absolute Truth In The Hands Of Any One Party Or Man?

Nothing Of That Which Is Conducive To Help Man, Collectively Or Individually, To Live Not "happily" But Less Unhappily In This World, Ought To Be Indifferent To The Theosophist-occultist. It Is No Concern Of His Whether His Help Benefits A Man In His Worldly Or Spiritual Progress; His First Duty Is To Be Ever Ready To Help If He Can, Without Stopping To Philosophize.

It Is An Occult Law Moreover, That No Man Can Rise Superior To His Individual Failings Without Lifting, Be It Ever So Little, The Whole Body Of Which He Is An Integral Part. In The Same Way No One Can Sin, Nor Suffer The Effects Of Sin, Alone. In Reality, There Is No Such Thing As 'separateness' And The Nearest Approach To That Selfish State Which The Laws Of Life Permit Is In The Intent Or Motive.