The Man Might Have Become A Power,

Spiritualism Is But A Baby Now, An Unwelcome Stranger, Whom Public Opinion, Like An Unnatural Foster Mother, Tries To Crush Out Of Existence.

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.

The More Thou Dost Advance, The More Thy Feet Pitfalls Will Meet.

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

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?