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There Is Far More Misunderstanding Of Islam Than There Is, I Think, Of The Other Religions Of The World. So Many Things Are Said Of It By Those Who Do Not Belong To That Faith.

Yoga Is A Science, And Not A Vague Dreamy Drifting Or Imagining. It Is An Applied Science, A Systematized Collection Of Laws Applied To Bring About A Definite End. It Takes Up The Laws Of Psychology, Applicable To The Unfolding Of The Whole Consciousness Of Man On Every Plane, In Every World, And Applies Those Rationally In A Particular Case. This Rational Application Of The Laws Of Unfolding Consciousness Acts Exactly On The Same Principles That You See Applied Around You Every Day In Other Departments Of Science.

When We Recognise That Unity Of All Living Things, Then At Once Arises The Question - How Can We Support This Life Of Ours With Least Injury To The Lives Around Us; How Can We Prevent Our Own Life Adding To The Suffering Of The World In Which We Live?

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.

The Divine Life Is The Spirit In Everything That Exists, From The Atom To The Archangel; The Grain Of Dust Could Not Be Were God Absent From It; The Loftiest Seraph Is But A Spark From The Eternal Fire, Which Is God. Sharers In One Life All Form One Brotherhood. The Immanence Of God, The Solidarity Of Man, Such Are The Basic Truths Of Theosophy.