A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.