Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00183)

No true theosophist, from the most ignorant up to the most learned,
ought to claim infallibility for anything he may say or write upon
occult matters.  The chief point is to admit that, in many a way,
in the classification of either cosmic or human principles, in
addition to mistakes in the order of evolution, and especially on
metaphysical questions, those of us who pretend to teach others
more ignorant than ourselves -- are all liable to err.  Thus
mistakes have been made in "Isis Unveiled," in "Esoteric
Buddhism"... and more than one mistake is likely to be found in the
present work.  This cannot be helped.  For a large or even a small
work on such abstruse subjects to be entirely exempt from error and
blunder, it would have to be written from its first to its last
page by a great adept, if not by an Avatar.  Then only should we
say, "This is verily a work without sin or blemish in it!"  But, so
long as the artist is imperfect, how can his work be perfect?
"Endless is the search for truth!"  Let us love it and aspire to it
for its own sake, and not for the glory or benefit a minute portion
of its revelation may confer on us.  For who of us can presume to
have the *whole* truth at his fingers' ends, even upon on minor
teaching of Occultism?

SD II 640

--
<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
	"Men must learn to love the truth before they thoroughly believe it."
		Blavatsky