Out Of Right Thinking Comes Right Practice.

If My Interlocutor Desires To Convince Me That Jupiter Has Inhabitants, And That His Description Of Them Is Accurate, It Is For Him To Bring Forward Evidence In Support Of His Contention. The Burden Of Proof Evidently Lies On Him; It Is Not For Me To Prove That No Such Beings Exist Before My Non-belief Is Justified, But For Him To Prove That They Do Exist Before My Belief Can Be Fairly Claimed. Similarly, It Is For The Affirmer Of God's Existence To Bring Evidence In Support Of His Affirmation; The Burden Of Proof Lies On Him.

India Is The Mother Of Religion. In Her Are Combined Science And Religion In Perfect Harmony, And That Is The Hindu Religion, And It Is India That Shall Be Again The Spiritual Mother Of The World.

What Is The Essence Of Theosophy? It Is The Fact That Man, Being Himself Divine, Can Know The Divinity Whose Life He Shares. As An Inevitable Corollary To This Supreme Truth Comes The Fact Of The Brotherhood Of Man.

Celibacy Is Not Natural To Men Or To Women; All Bodily Needs Require Their Legitimate Satisfaction, And Celibacy Is A Disregard Of Natural Law.

Death Consists, Indeed, In A Repeated Process Of Unrobing, Or Unsheathing. The Immortal Part Of Man Shakes Off From Itself, One After The Other, Its Outer Casings, And - As The Snake From Its Skin, The Butterfly From Its Chrysalis - Emerges From One After Another, Passing Into A Higher State Of Consciousness.