A FREE INTRO TO THEOSOPHY
An Outline of Theosophy
By
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Theosophy – What It Is
For many a
year men have been discussing arguing, enquiring about certain great basic
truths – about the existence and the Nature of God, about His relation to man,
and about the past and future of humanity.
So radically have they differed
on these
points, and so bitterly have they assailed and ridiculed one another’s beliefs,
that there has come to be a firmly-rooted popular opinion that with regard to
all these matters there is no certainty available – nothing but vague speculation
amid a cloud of unsound deductions drawn from ill-established premises. And
this in spite of the very definite, though frequently incredible, assertions
made on these subjects on behalf of the various religions.
This popular
opinion, though not unnatural under the circumstances, is entirely untrue.
There are definite facts available – plenty of them. Theosophy gives them to
us; but it offers them not (as religions do) as matters of faith, but as
subjects for study. It is itself not a religion, but it bears to religions the same
relation as did the ancient philosophies. It does not contradict them, but
explains them.
Whatever in
any of them is unreasonable, it rejects as necessarily unworthy of the Deity
and derogatory to Him; whatever is reasonable in each and all of them it takes
up, explains and emphasises, and thus combines all
into one harmonious whole.
It holds that
truth on all these most important points is attainable – that there is a great
body of knowledge about them already existing. It considers all the various
religions as statements of that truth from different points of view; since,
though they differ much as to nomenclature and as to articles of belief, they
all agree as to the only matter which are of real importance – the kind of life
which a good man should lead, the qualities which he must develop, the vices
which he must avoid. On these practical points the teaching is identical in
Hinduism and Buddhism, in Zoroasterianism and Muhammadanism, in Judaism and Christianity.
Theosophy may
be described to the outside world as an intelligent theory of the universe. Yet
for those who have studied it, it is not theory, but fact; for it is a definite
science, capable of being studied, and its teachings are verifiable by
investigation and experiment for those who are willing to take the trouble to
qualify themselves for such enquiry.
It is a
statement of the great facts of Nature so far as they are known – an outline of
the scheme of our
corner of the
universe.
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