Book Description

Harmonise your soul with the soul of the human family and all creatures. The Divine Spirit in man, hitherto shunned from the crass material world, has finally awakened and is about to assert its rights to recognition. The Spirit in man is turned by pride into a blind wanderer, like a buffoon mocked by a host of other buffoons, and remains unheard and unheeded in the darkness of matter. The death struggle between Mysticism and Materialism is now raging. The voice of human soul proclaims the resurrection of the Divine Spirit in the foremost representatives of thought and learning. Books do not represent one man: they are the mirror of a host of men. Those who, amidst the wholesale worship of matter will have bravely fought for human rights and man’s divine nature, will become, if they only win, the teachers of the masses in the coming century, and thus their benefactors. The new era will have struck only for those who learnt how to express and put into practice the aspirations, as well as the physical needs, of the trampled-down masses. For one to fully comprehend the pain and suffering of individual life, he has to devote himself with the fervour of unselfish philanthropy and unconditional love of his fellow man, i.e., to attune his soul with that of humanity at large. Like those wonderful snow flowers of Northern Siberia which, in order to shoot forth from the frozen soil they have to pierce through a thick layer of hard snow, so those rare blossoms of ideality have to fight with the cold indifference and human harshness of the age, and with the ever-mocking world of wealth. It is the rich who have first to be regenerated, if we would do good to the poor; for it is in the former that lies the root of evil of which the “disinherited” classes are but the too luxuriant growth. The root of evil lies in a moral, not in a physical cause. Work, therefore, to bring about the moral regeneration of the cultured though far more immoral classes before you attempt to do the same for our ignorant younger brothers, for the sin or merit of one reacts on All. Speak to the awakening Spirit of Humanity, to the human Spirit, and to the Spirit in man — these three in One, and the One in All. Speak words capable of awakening the true spirit in a society which had drifted away in a wrong direction. Be a fearless apostle of Compassion, the living Word and Spirit of Truth. Theosophy alone can gradually create a world as harmonious and as simple-souled as Kosmos itself; but this noble goal can only be achieved if Theosophists act as such, for the true Theosophist is who Theosophy does.