“Mr. Williams: It would be a good thing to give examples of lives that have not shown any experience.
Mme. Blavatsky: I do not think I have ever met a truly happy man. To everyone life is a burden, there is something they cannot find – any interior satisfaction, or peace of mind. I have never met one man yet who was perfectly satisfied.
Mr. B. Keightley: The conclusion to be drawn from that would seem to be that no permanent satisfaction is possible in material life.
Mme. Blavatsky: If evolution progresses in such a way as that, then they will most certainly go pari passu with physical evolution; and what matters it, now that we have all the joys and blessings of civilization?
They come and say to us: Christianity has softened the customs. I say, did it? Why, the more civilized a country is, the more cant it has, and the more miserable are the people. Look at England. Where is there more wealth, and every blessing in the world? If they only thought a little bit about the people! Where is there more misery than in England?
Mr. B. Keightley: That is not a direct answer to this question; your assertion is perfectly general here, that the final goal, or peace, can only be reached through life experiences. That applies broadly all round, whether you speak about a civilized country or a Buddhist country. Then you want to give general answer.
Mme. Blavatsky: I do not answer it on the paper. As we speak now, it is quite a different thing. I simply answer to that: there is no man that is satisfied; because, civilization brings outward blessings, but that civilization shows there is every day more and more immorality, corruption, and selfishness.
And what does selfishness lead to? It leads to the thing that half of mankind have become: the Cains of the others, which are the Abels.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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