Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.