That Cruelest Of Tyrants -

Reflect Upon The Defects Of Your Character: Thoroughly Realize Their Evils And The Transient Pleasures They Give You, And Firmly Will That You Shall Try Your Best Not To Yield To Them The Next Time.

But The First Differentiation Of Its Reflection In The Manifested World Is Purely Spiritual, And The Beings Generated In It Are Not Endowed With A Consciousness That Has Any Relation To The One We Conceive Of.

The Essence Of Theosophy Is The Perfect Harmonizing Of The Divine With The Human In Man, The Adjustment Of His God-like Qualities And Aspirations, And Their Sway Over The Terrestrial Or Animal Passions In Him. Kindness, Absence Of Every Ill Feeling Or Selfishness, Charity, Goodwill To All Beings, And Perfect Justice To Others As To Oneself, Are Its Chief Features. He Who Teaches Theosophy Preaches The Gospel Of Goodwill; And The Converse Of This Is True Also — He Who Preaches The Gospel Of Goodwill, Teaches Theosophy.

Whatever Plane Our Consciousness May Be Acting In, Both We And The Things Belonging To That Plane Are, For The Time Being, Our Only Realities. As We Rise In The Scale Of Development We Perceive That During The Stages Through Which We Have Passed We Mistook Shadows For Realities, And The Upward Progress Of The Ego Is A Series Of Progressive Awakenings, Each Advance Bringing With It The Idea That Now, At Last, We Have Reached "reality"; But Only When We Shall Have Reached The Absolute Consciousness, And Blended Our Own With It, Shall We Be Free From The Delusions Produced By Maya [illusion].

The Discoveries Of Modern Science Do Not Disagree With The Oldest Traditions Which Claim An Incredible Antiquity For Our Race.