tktt: The Difference Between Faith And Knowledge; Or, Blind And Reasoned Faith.

“Enq:  If we lose even our individuality, then it becomes simply annihilation.

 
Theo:  I say it does not, since I speak of separate, not of universal individuality. The latter becomes as a part transformed into the whole; the dewdrop is not evaporated, but becomes the sea.

 
Is physical man annihilated, when from a foetus he becomes an old man? What kind of Satanic pride must be ours if we place our infinitesimally small consciousness and individuality higher than the universal and infinite consciousness?

 
Enq:  It follows, then, that there is, de facto, no man, but all is Spirit?

 
Theo:  You are mistaken. It thus follows that the union of Spirit with matter is but temporary; or, to put it more clearly, since Spirit and matter are one, being the two opposite poles of the universal manifested substance – that Spirit loses its right to the name so long as the smallest particle and atom of its manifesting substance still clings to any form, the result of differentiation. To believe otherwise is blind faith.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky