Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00134)

January 8, 2002

Re: Is Theosophy possibly a "Belief system ?


Dear Friends:

What precisely is a "BELIEF SYSTEM?"

To most, any understanding of "belief" implies: "NO PROOF
EXISTS," or "AUTHORITY SAYS. "

We might even say that it is a series of statements that cannot
be verified, or assembled in harmony together. Possibly it
arises from insecurity, inability to reason and observe, and,
from that, it is natural to see that fear may arise.

Theosophy on the other hand asks for close investigation and
offers proofs and demonstrations.

"If one criticism is hurtful, so is another; so also is every
innovation, or even the presentation of some old thing under a
new aspect, as both have necessarily to clash with the views of
this, or another "authority."...criticism is the great benefactor
of thought in general; and still more so of those men who never
think for themselves but rely in everything upon acknowledged
"authorities" and social routine.

For what is an "authority" upon any question...No more...than a
light streaming upon a certain object through one single, more or
less wide, chink, and illuminating it from one side only. Such
light, besides being the faithful reflector of the personal views
of but one man--very often merely that of his special hobby--can
never help in the examination of a question or a subject from all
its aspects and sides...Criticism is the sole salvation from
intellectual stagnation...(391)To reject the infallibility of a
man of Science is not quite the same as to repudiate his
learning. A specialist is one, precisely because he has some one
specialty, and is therefore less reliable in other branches of
Science, and even in the general appreciation of his own subject.
Official school Science is based upon temporary foundations, so
far...Truth belongs to all...excepting always those few special
branches of knowledge which should be preserved ever secret, like
those two-edged weapons that both kill and save..." -- HPB
Literary Jottings by "Unpopular Philosopher"
LUCIFER, Sept. 1892 (posthumous) HPB Art. II 389-391


"Be what he may, once that a student abandons the old and trodden
highway of routine, and enters upon the solitary path of
independent thought--Godward--he is a Theosophist; an original
thinker, a seeker after the eternal truth with "an inspiration of
his own" to solve the universal problems." -- HPB " What are
the Theosophists ?" Theosophist, Oct. 1879. HPB Art. I p.
52


"The Authority which we recognize is not what men term authority,
which comes from outside and which demands obedience, but an
internal recognition of the value of that which flows through any
given point, focus, or individual. This is the authority of
one's Self-discrimination, intuition, the highest intellection.
If we follow what we recognize in that way, and still find it
good, we naturally keep our faces in that direction. This means
no slavish following of any person--a distinction which some are
unable to grasp. H.P.B. wrote: "Do not follow me or my path.
Follow the path I show, the Masters who are behind"...the most
and best anyone can do is to follow the lines laid down by H.P.B.
regardless of any others." F. P. p. 372-3
[ Reminiscences - C. Wachtmeister p. 122 ]


"No true Theosophist...would consent to become the fetish of a
fashionable doctrine, any more than he would make himself the
slave of a decaying dead-letter system, the spirit from which has
disappeared forever. Neither would he pander to anyone or
anything, and therefore would always decline to show belief in
that in which he does not, nor can he believe, which is lying to
his own soul...we will keep to that pure ray "that comes from
above," from the light of the "Ancient."
--HPB "DUAL ASPECT OF WISDOM", LUCIFER, Sept. 1890, HPB
Articles I 36-7


For thinking persons, this aspect of free investigation is very
satisfactory. But for those who have not penetrated with their
minds the Objects of Theosophical study and work, they remain a
kind of threat. What to do? One of the oldest methods of
discrediting anything is to make wild, unsupported and
unverified, unreferenced statements in a kind of attack. It
startles, confuses and disgusts many. Others, it leaves totally
unmoved. Yet, there is always a desire to "hear the other side."

"Its [Theosophical] doctrines, if seriously studied, call forth,
by stimulating one's reasoning powers and awakening the inner in
the animal man, every hitherto dormant power for good in us, and
also the perception of the true and the real, as opposed to the
false and the unreal.

"The Society, as such, has no authorities. It was founded with
the object of breaking down that reliance upon "authority" which
has been the bane of man for ages, and it would be strange now in
we could admit authority for theosophists...We are engaged in
trying to develop a truer appreciation of the Light of Life which
is hidden in every man, and so the "final authority" is the man
himself." -- WQJ "AUTHORITY," The Path, Nov. 1887, WQJ
Art. II 543, 575


Although some seem to dislike hearing what the Originators of
modern-day Theosophy had to say, yet, they (those Originators)
seem to make it plain. One said that Theosophy was "sanctified
common-sense." Of course, that has to be proved.

Belief systems seem to rely on the apathy, ignorance and the
inertia of most of their adherents. But who wants to be
satisfied with unreferenced labels, when Wisdom is to be had
freely?

"It is just because we have devoted our whole life to the
research of truth...that we never accept on faith any authority
upon any question whatsoever; nor, pursuing, as we do, Truth and
progress through a full and fearless enquiry, untrammeled by any
consideration, would we advise any of our friends to do
otherwise." --HPB "Notes on 'A Land of Mystery'" HPB Art III
342-3 Theosophist, Vol. 1, p. 278-9

Theosophy is an embodiment of the universal dynamism which we
call LIFE. " Lets study it, learn what it implies, then, go and
find out," seems to be the basic approach. And those who are
true students say further: " Let us see if they are true for
ourselves."


H P B, the Master's "Messenger," wrote some definitions as to
what THEOSOPHY is:


"Theosophy is an all-embracing Science; many are the ways
leading to it...which began with the sublime in the days of
Ammonius Saccas...There were theosophists and Theosophical
Schools for the last 2,000 years, from Plato down to the medieval
Alchemists, who knew the value of the term...

Belief in the Masters, was never made an article of faith in the
T.S. But for its Founders, the commands received from Them when
it was established have ever been sacred. And this is what one
of them wrote...:

"Theosophy must not present merely a collection of moral
verities, a bundle of metaphysical Ethics epitomized in
theoretical dissertations. Theosophy must be made practical, and
has, therefore, to be disencumbered of useless discussion ...It
has to find objective expression in an all-embracing code of life
thoroughly impregnated with its spirit--the spirit of mutual
tolerance, charity, and love...The problem of true theosophy and
its great mission is the working out of clear, unequivocal
conceptions of ethic ideas and duties which would satisfy most
and best the altruistic and right feelings in us; and the
modeling of these conceptions for their adaptation into such
forms of daily life where they may be applied with most
equitableness...Such is the common work in view for all those who
are willing to act on these principles...none is held to weed out
a larger plot of ground than his strength and capacity will
permit him..." HPB "THE ORGANIZATION OF THE T.S."
THEOSOPHIST, June 1924, and again in August 1931.


H P B said: "...the undersigned accepts for her views and
walk in life no authority dead or living, no system of philosophy
or religion but one--namely, the esoteric teachings of ethics and
philosophy of those she calls Masters--answers have to be given
strictly in accordance with these teachings...his first duty is
to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to
philosophize...there may be those who are starving for truth, in
every department of the science of nature, and who consequently
are yearning to learn the esoteric views about "cosmology, the
evolution of man and of the Universe." ... what I do believe in
is:

(1), the unbroken oral teachings revealed by living *divine* men
during the infancy of mankind to the elect among men;

(2), that it has reached us unaltered; and

(3), that the MASTERS are thoroughly versed in the science based
on such uninterrupted teaching.."
(Blavatsky: Collected Writings, Vol. 11, pages 466-467)


In 1877 in ISIS UNVEILED, H P B wrote:


"The work now submitted to public judgment is the fruit of a
somewhat intimate acquaintance with Eastern Adepts and study of
their SCIENCE ... we came into contact with certain men, endowed
with such mysterious powers and such profound knowledge that we
may truly designate them as the sages of the Orient. To their
instructions we lent a ready ear ... " ( ISIS I, v, vi)
Caps added

"... FROM THE FIRST AGES OF MAN, THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS OF ALL
THAT WE ARE PERMITTED TO KNOW ON EARTH WAS IN THE SAFE KEEPING OF
THE ADEPTS of the sanctuary ... those guardians of the PRIMITIVE
DIVINE REVELATION, who had solved every problem that is within
the grasp of human intellect, were bound together by a universal
freemasonry of science and philosophy, which formed one unbroken
chain around the globe." ISIS I, 37-38, Caps added

"There are, scattered throughout the world, a handful of
thoughtful and solitary students, who pass their lives in
obscurity, far from the rumors of the world, studying the great
problems of the physical and spiritual universes. They have their
SECRET RECORDS in which are preserved the fruits of the
scholastic labors of the LONG LINE of recluses whose successors
they are ... "
ISIS I, 557. Caps added

"... the SECRET DOCTRINE is the Truth ..." ( ISIS UNVEILED II,
292)

"... many are those who ... will remain in doubt and mortal agony
as to whether, when man dies, he will live again, although the
question has been solved by long bygone generations of sages ....
Except the initiates, no one has understood the mystic writing.
The key was in the keeping of those who knew how to commune with
the invisible Presence, and who had received, from the lips of
mother Nature herself, her grand truths ... " ( ISIS I,
573)

"... This 'SECRET DOCTRINE' contains the alpha and omega of
universal SCIENCE; therein lies the corner and the keystone of
all the ancient and modern knowledge; and alone in this ...
doctrine remains buried the absolute in the philosophy of the
dark problems of life and death ... " ( ISIS I, 511) caps
added

"Thus is it that all the religious monuments of old, in whatever
land or under whatever climate, ARE THE EXPRESSION OF THE SAME
IDENTICAL THOUGHTS, THE KEY TO WHICH IS IN THE ESOTERIC DOCTRINE
... And the clergy of every nation, though practicing rites and
ceremonies which may have differed externally, had evidently been
initiated into the same traditional mysteries which were taught
all over the world ..." ( ISIS I, 561)

"... the Northern seer Swedenborg, advises people to search for
the LOST WORD among the hierophants of Tartary, China and Thibet;
for it is there, and only there now ... " ( ISIS I 580 )

"... the four Vedas; the Books of Hermes; the Chaldean Book of
Numbers; the Nazarene Codex; the Kabala ... ; the Sepher
Jezira; the Book of Wisdom ... ; the Brahmanas; the Stan-gyour,
of the Thibetans; all these volumes have the same ground-work.
Varying but in allegories THEY TEACH THE SAME SECRET DOCTRINE
which ... will prove to be the Ultima Thule of true philosophy,
and disclose what is this lost word." ( ISIS I, 580)

"... the 'secret doctrine' or wisdom was identical in every
country ..." ( ISIS I, 444)

"... What we desire to prove is, that underlying every ancient
popular religion was THE SAME ANCIENT WISDOM-DOCTRINE, ONE AND
IDENTICAL, professed and practiced BY THE INITIATES OF EVERY
COUNTRY, who alone were aware of its existence and importance ...
A single glance ... is enough to assure one that it could not
have attained the marvelous perfection in which we find it
pictured to us in the relics of the various esoteric systems,
except after a succession of ages.

"A PHILOSOPHY SO PROFOUND, A MORAL CODE SO ENNOBLING, AND
PRACTICAL RESULTS SO CONCLUSIVE AND SO UNIFORMLY DEMONSTRABLE IS
NOT THE GROWTH OF A GENERATION, OR EVEN A SINGLE EPOCH."

Fact must have been piled upon fact, deduction upon deduction,
science have begotten science, and myriads of the brightest human
intellects have reflected upon the laws of nature, before this
ancient doctrine had taken concrete shape.

THE PROOFS OF THIS IDENTITY OF FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE IN THE OLD
RELIGIONS ARE FOUND IN THE PREVALENCE OF A SYSTEM OF INITIATION;
in the secret sacerdotal castes who had the guardianship of
mystical words of power, and a public display of a phenomenal
control over natural forces, indicating association with
preterhuman beings ... " ( ISIS II 90 )

"As we proceed, we will point out the evidences of this identity
of vows, formulas, rites, and doctrines, between the ancient
faiths. We will also show that not only their memory is still
preserved in India, but also that the SECRET ASSOCIATION is still
alive and as active as ever ... the chief pontiff and hierophant,
the BRAHMATMA, is still accessible to those 'who know,' though
perhaps recognized by another name; and that the ramifications of
his influence extend throughout the world ..."
( ISIS II, 99-100) Caps Added

"Our examination of the multitudinous religious faiths that
mankind, early and late, have professed, most assuredly indicates
that THEY HAVE ALL BEEN DERIVED FROM ONE PRIMITIVE SOURCE. It
would seem as if they were all but different modes of expressing
the yearning of the imprisoned human soul for intercourse with
supernal spheres.

As the while ray of light is decomposed by the prism into the
various colors of the solar spectrum, so the beam of divine
truth, in passing through the three-sided prism of man's nature,
has been broken up into vari-colored fragments called religions.
And, as the rays of the spectrum, by imperceptible shadings,
merge into each other, so the great theologies that have appeared
at different degrees of divergence from the original source, have
been connected by minor schisms, schools, and off-shoots from the
one side or the other.

COMBINED, THEIR AGGREGATE REPRESENTS ONE ETERNAL TRUTH; separate,
they are but shades of human error and the signs of imperfection
... "What has been contemptuously termed Paganism, was ancient
wisdom replete with Deity; and Judaism and its offspring,
Christianity and Islamism, derived whatever of inspiration they
contained from this ethic parent.

PRE-VEDIC BRAHMANISM AND BUDDHISM ARE THE DOUBLE SOURCE FROM
WHICH ALL RELIGIONS SPRUNG; NIRVANA IS THE OCEAN TO WHICH ALL
TEND." ISIS II, 639)


H P B writing on criticism about the book The SECRET DOCTRINE
said:

"We are quite ready to admit the faults charged...that it is
badly arranged, discursive, over-burdened with digressions into
by-ways of mythology, etc., But then it is neither a
philosophical system nor the Doctrine, called secret or esoteric,
but only a record of a few of its facts and a witness to it. It
has never claimed to be the full exposition of the system...in
its totality; a) because the writer does not boast of being a
great Initiate... b) because had she been one, she would have
divulged still less. It has never been contemplated to make of
the sacred truths an integral system for the ribaldry and sneers
of the profane and iconoclastic public...the Secret Doctrine
merely asserts that a system, known as the Wisdom Religion, the
work of generations of adepts and seers, the sacred heirloom of
pre-historic times--actually exists, though hitherto preserved in
the greatest secrecy by the present Initiates...Giving a few
fragments only, it there shows how these explain the religious
dogmas of the present day, and how they might serve Western
religions, philosophies and science, as sign-posts along the
untrodden paths of discovery...No new philosophy is set up in the
Secret Doctrine, only the hidden meaning of some of the religious
allegories of antiquity is given...and the common source is
pointed out...however divergent...the agreement between all
becomes perfect, so soon as the esoteric or inner side of these
beliefs and their symbology is examined...It is also maintained
that its doctrines and sciences, which form an integral cycle of
universal cosmic facts and metaphysical axioms and truths,
represent a complete and unbroken system; and that he who is
brave and persevering enough, ready to crush the animal in
himself, and forgetting the human self, sacrifices it to his
Higher Ego, can always find his way to become initiated into
these mysteries. This is all the Secret Doctrine
ms." --HPB "THE BABEL OF MODERN THOUGHT," LUCIFER, Jan.,
Feb. 1891, HPB Articles III 43-44


"IF ANY AUTHORITY PERTAINS TO THE SECRET DOCTRINE, IT MUST BE
SOUGHT INSIDE, NOT OUTSIDE. IT MUST REST ON ITS
COMPREHENSIVENESS, ITS COMPLETENESS, ITS CONTINUITY AND
REASONABLENESS; IN OTHER WORDS, ON ITS PHILOSOPHICAL SYNTHESIS,
A THING MISSED ALIKE BY THE SUPERFICIAL AND THE CONTENTIOUS, BY
THE INDOLENT, THE SUPERSTITIOUS, AND THE DOGMATIC."
-- WQJ "THE SYNTHESIS OF OCCULT SCIENCE," WQJ Art I
36



2) Let us also consider what has been said concerning the
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY



THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY



"When the ancient founders of your philosophical schools came
East, to acquire the lore of our predecessors, they filed no
claims, except the single one of a sincere and unselfish hunger
for the truth. If any now aspire to found new schools of science
and philosophy the same plan will win--if the searchers have in
them the elements of success...H.S.Olcott has been trying to
convert each of the Indian Branches into such a school of
research, but the capacity for sustained independent study for
knowledge's sake is lacking, and must be developed..."
M L, p. 342

"Solidarity of thought and action within the broad outline of the
chief and general principles of the Society there must always be
between the parent and Branch bodies; yet the latter must be
allowed each their own independent action in everything that does
not clash with those principles." M L , p. 318-9

"The Theosophical Society was constituted on the model of its
mother country...they wanted to grant absolute equality in its
laws to all religions so that all would support the State and all
in their turn would be protected...each branch as well as each
member, having the right to profess the religion and to study the
sciences or philosophies it or he prefers, provided that the
whole remains united by bonds of solidarity and fraternity--our
Society may be truly called the "Republic of Conscience."...

All of us must work for the liberation of human thought, for the
elimination of selfish and sectarian superstitions, and for the
discovery of all the truths that are within the reach of the
human mind. This goal cannot be attained with greater certainty
than through the culture of solidarity on the plane of mental
work. No honest worker, no serious seeker, has ever returned
therefrom empty-handed..." --HPB "THE NEW CYCLE" La Revue
Theosophique, March 21, 1889. HPB Articles I 402

"No true Theosophist...would consent to become the fetish of a
fashionable doctrine, any more than he would make himself the
slave of a decaying dead-letter system, the spirit from which has
disappeared forever. Neither would he pander to anyone or
anything, and therefore would always decline to show belief in
that in which he does not, nor can he believe, which is lying to
his own soul...we will keep to that pure ray "that comes from
above," from the light of the "Ancient."
--HPB "Dual Aspect of Wisdom", Lucifer, Sept. 1890, HPB
Articles I 36-7

"The Theosophical Society was chosen as the cornerstone, the
foundation of the future religions of humanity. To achieve the
proposed object, a greater, wiser, and especially a more
benevolent intermingling of the high and the low, the alpha and
the omega of society, was determined upon." LUCIFER, Aug.
1896 "The Great Master's Letter" Theos. Art & Notes, p. 190

"The society was founded to become the Brotherhood of Humanity--a
centre, philosophical and religious, common to all--not as a
propaganda for Buddhism merely...the T.S. is open to all, without
distinction of "origin, caste, nation, colour, or sex...or of
creed." HPB -- "The Theosophical Society," LUCIFER, Aug. 1888

"HPB is loyal to the death to the Theosophical Cause, and those
great Teachers whose philosophy can alone bind the whole Humanity
into one Brotherhood...Therefore the degree of her sympathies
with the "Theosophical Society and Adyar" depends upon the degree
of the loyalty of that society to the CAUSE. Let it break away
from the original lines and show disloyalty in its policy to the
CAUSE and the original programme of the Society and HPB, calling
the T.S. disloyal, will shake it off like dust from her
feet....There is no longer a "Parent Society;" it is abolished
and replaced by an aggregate body of Theosophical Societies, all
autonomous, as are the States of America, and all under one Head
President, who, together with H.P.Blavatsky, will champion the
CAUSE against the whole
world..." HPB - A PUZZLE FROM ADYAR, Lucifer, August
1889.

"There is a very great difference between the Theosophical
Movement and any Theosophical Society. The Movement is moral,
ethical, spiritual, universal, invisible save in effect, and
continuous. A Society formed for theosophical work is a visible
organization, an effect, a machine for conserving energy and
putting it to use; It is not nor can it be universal, nor is it
continuous...

The Theosophical Movement being continuous, it is to be found at
all times and in all nations. Wherever thought has struggled to
be free, wherever spiritual ideas, as opposed to forms and
dogmatism, have been promulgated, there the great movement is to
be discerned." WQJ - "The Theosophical Movement" WQJ
Articles, II, p. 124


"It has always been held that a true Theosophist must have no
personal ends to serve, no favourite hobby to propagate, no
special doctrine to enforce or to defend. For, to merit the
honorable title of Theosophist one must be an altruist, above
all; one ever ready to help equally foe or friend; to act,
rather than to speak; and urge others to action, while never
losing an opportunity to work himself. But if no true
Theosophist will ever dictate to his fellow, brother or neighbor,
what this one should believe or disbelieve in, nor force him to
act on lines which may be distasteful to him, however proper they
may appear to himself, there are other duties which he has to
attend to:

a) to warn his brother of any danger the latter may fail to see;
and

b) to share his knowledge--if he has acquired such--with those
who have been less fortunate than himself in opportunities for
acquiring it...

Therefore, we say to-day to all: "If you would really help the
noble cause--you must do so now; for a few years more and your,
as well as our efforts, will be in vain."...

Unless we succeed in placing the T.S...on the safe side of the
spiritual current, it will be swept away irretrievably into the
Deep called "Failure." ...Thus will have ingloriously perished
the only association whose aims, rules and original purposes
answer in every particular and detail--if strictly carried
out--to the innermost, fundamental thought of every great Adept
Reformer, the beautiful dream of a Universal Brotherhood Of Man."
HPB "Why the Vahan ?" Dec. 1890 HPB Art.
I 284-5


H P B sent a letter to the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY in Adyar with Mr.
Bertram Keightley in April 1890. It was not published in
THEOSOPHIST until 32 years later: January 1922. It says
clearly in her characteristic way:

[ From HPB: "Why I do not Return to India" -- letter
April, 1890

"...the name alone of the holy Masters...has wrought a mighty
change for the better in your land [India]...so long as I
remained at Adyar, things went on smoothly enough, because one or
other of the Masters was almost constantly present among us, and
their spirit ever protected the T.S. from real harm...[1884] It
was during that time and Colonel Olcott's absence in Burma, that
the seeds of all future strifes, and...disintegration of the
T.S., were planned by our enemies... I say, at that critical
moment, if the members of the Society, and especially its leaders
at Adyar, Hindu and European, had stood together as one man, firm
in their conviction of the reality and power of the Masters,
Theosophy would have come out more triumphantly than ever, and
none of their fears would have ever been realized...In spite of
my protests, I was hurried away from Headquarters...and
immediately intrigues and rumors began...it was rumored that I
had been abandoned by the Masters, been disloyal to Them...I was
accused of being, at best, a hallucinated medium, who had
mistaken "spooks" for living Masters...others declared that the
real H.P.Blavatsky was dead...and that the form had been
forthwith seized upon by a Dugpa Chela...I was a witch, a
sorceress...In fact the powers of psychology attributed to me by
my enemies...are so great that they alone would have made of me a
most remarkable Adept--independently of any Masters or Mahatmas.
with the exception of Colonel Olcott, everyone seemed to banish
the Masters from their thoughts and Their spirit from
Adyar...since my departure...the activity of the movement there
gradually slackened...

Acting under Master's orders I began a new movement in the West
on the original lines; I founded LUCIFER, and the Lodge which
bears my name...I learned that I was once more wanted in
India--at any rate by some. But the invitation came too late;
neither would my doctor permit it, nor can I, if I would remain
true to my life-pledge and vows, now live at the Headquarters
from which the Masters and Their spirit are virtually banished.
The presence of Their portraits will not help; They are a dead
letter...no advice of mine on occult lines seems likely to be
accepted, as the fact of my relations with the Masters is
doubted, even totally denied by some...the spread of Theosophy
and of the T.S. in the West, during the last three years, has
been extraordinary...I was enabled and encouraged by the devotion
of an ever increasing number of members to the Cause and to Those
who guide it, to establish an Esoteric Section, in which I can
teach something of what I have learned to those who have
confidence in me, and who prove this by their disinterested work
for Theosophy and the T.S. (113) The only claim, therefore,
which India could ever have upon me would be strong only in
proportion to the activity of the Fellows there for Theosophy and
their loyalty to the Masters.

Thenceforth let it be clearly understood that the rest of my life
is devoted only to those who believe in the Masters, and are
willing to work for Theosophy as They understand it, and for the
T.S. on the lines upon which They originally established it."
-- HPB "Why I do not Return to India,"

[ This letter from HPB was written and sent with B. Keightley,
April 1890. Published in Theosophist, January 1922.
HPB Articles I pp 108 - 114 ]



Best wishes to all,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----

FROM: J S


<<<eternal universal truth. I don't see theosophy as a belief
system at all, nor do I see others say that it is. >>>


Anyone who thinks that Theosophy is eternal universal truth first
has to define Theosophy.


We have, so far, not been able to do that, D----- 's quotes
notwithstanding.


Please let me be the first to say (actually I have already said
it) that Theosophy is indeed a belief system. So is every
religion and philosophy on this earth.

All we can ever hope to know and validate by experience and
observation is our own belief system. I am not really downgrading
Theosophy here, but rather I am showing the vital importance of
belief systems in how we experience and react to every day life.


J S