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It Is, Then, By Those Shadows Of The Hoary Past And Their Fantastic Silhouettes On The External Screen Of Every Religion And Philosophy, That We Can, By Checking Them As We Go Along, And Comparing Them, Trace Out Finally The Body That Produced Them.

The Possible Truths, Hazily Perceived In The World Of Abstraction, Like Those Inferred From Observation And Experiment In The World Of Matter, Are Forced Upon The Profane Multitudes, Too Busy To Think For Themselves, Under The Form Of Divine Revelation And Scientific Authority. But The Same Question Stands Open From The Days Of Socrates And Pilate Down To Our Own Age Of Wholesale Negation: Is There Such A Thing As Absolute Truth In The Hands Of Any One Party Or Man?

"the Myths," Says Horace In His Ars Poetica, "have Been Invented By Wise Men To Strengthen The Laws And Teach Moral Truths." While Horace Endeavored To Make Clear The Very Spirit And Essence Of The Ancient Myths, Euhemerus Pretended, On The Contrary, That "myths Were The Legendary History Of Kings And Heroes, Transformed Into Gods By The Admiration Of The Nations." It Is The Latter Method Which Was Inferentially Followed By Christians When They Agreed Upon The Acceptation Of Euhemerized Patriarchs, And Mistook Them For Men Who Had Really Lived.

As No Cause Remains Without Its Due Effect From Greatest To Least, From A Cosmic Disturbance Down To The Movement Of Your Hand, And As Like Produces Like, Karma Is That Unseen And Unknown Law Which Adjusts Wisely, Intelligently, And Equitably Each Effect To Its Cause, Tracing The Latter Back To Its Producer.

Nothing Of That Which Is Conducive To Help Man, Collectively Or Individually, To Live Not "happily" But Less Unhappily In This World, Ought To Be Indifferent To The Theosophist-occultist. It Is No Concern Of His Whether His Help Benefits A Man In His Worldly Or Spiritual Progress; His First Duty Is To Be Ever Ready To Help If He Can, Without Stopping To Philosophize.