There is no religion higher than Truth.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

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

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

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.