“Enq: Is the production of such healing adepts the aim of Theosophy?
Theo: Its aims are several; but the most important of all are those which are likely to lead to the relief of human suffering under any or every form, moral as well as physical. And we believe the former to be far more important than the latter.
Theosophy has to inculcate ethics; it has to purify the soul, if it would relieve the physical body, whose ailments, except cases of accidents, are all hereditary.
It is not by studying Occultism for selfish ends, for the gratification of one’s personal ambition, pride, or vanity, that one can ever reach the true goal: that of helping suffering mankind.
Nor is it by studying one single branch of the esoteric philosophy that man becomes an Occultist, but by studying, if not mastering, them all.
Enq: Is help, then, to reach this most important aim, given only to those who study the esoteric sciences?
Theo: Not at all. Every lay member is entitled to general instruction if he only wants it; but a few are willing to become what is called “working members”, and most prefer to remain the drones of Theosophy.
Let it be understood that private research is encouraged in the T.S., provided it does not infringe the limit which separates the exoteric from the esoteric, the blind from the conscious magic.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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