Category: The Key To Theosophy (1889): H. P. Blavatsky

"Enq:  Then you make of man a God?   Theo:  Please say "God" and not a God. In our sense, the inner man is the only God we can have cognizance of.  And how can this be otherwise?   Grant us our postulate that God is a universally diffused, infinite principle, and how can man [...]

"Enq:  Do you believe in prayer, and do you ever pray?   Theo:  We do not. We act, instead of talking.   Enq:  You do not offer prayers even to the Absolute Principle?   Theo:  Why should we? Being well-occupied people, we can hardly afford to lose time in addressing verbal prayers to a pure [...]

"Enq:  I once heard one of your members remarking that Universal Deity, being everywhere, was in vessels of dishonour, as in those of honour, and, therefore, was present in every atom of my cigar ash!  Is this not rank blasphemy?   Theo:  I do not think so, as simple logic can hardly be regarded as [...]

"Enq:  Stop! Omniscience is the prerogative of something that thinks, and you deny to your Absoluteness the power of thought.   Theo:  We deny it to the ABSOLUTE, since thought is something limited and conditioned. But you evidently forget that in philosophy absolute unconsciousness is also absolute consciousness, as otherwise it would not be absolute. [...]

"Enq:  What is, then, your definition of it {Pantheism}?   Theo:  Let me ask you a question in my turn. What do you understand by Pan, or Nature?   Enq:  Nature is, I suppose, the sum total of things existing around us; the aggregate of causes and effects in the world of matter, the creation [...]

"Enq:  Then you are Atheists?   Theo:  Not that we know of, and not unless the epithet of "Atheist" is to be applied to those who disbelieve in an anthropomorphic God.   We believe in a Universal Divine Principle, the root of ALL, from which all proceeds, and within which all shall be absorbed at [...]

"Enq:  Do you believe in God?   Theo:  That depends what you mean by the term.   Enq:  I mean the God of the Christians, the Father of Jesus, and the Creator:  the Biblical God of Moses, in short.   Theo:  In such a God we do not believe. We reject the idea of a [...]

"Enq:  We have heard of a Golden Age that was, and what you describe would be Golden Age to be realized at some future day. When shall it be?   Theo:  Not before humanity, as a whole, feels the need of it. A maxim in the Persian "Javidan Khirad" says:  "Truth is of two kinds [...]

"Enq:  Your claim is, then that all the great religions are derived from Theosophy, and that it is by assimilating it that the world will be finally saved from the curse of its great illusions and errors?   Theo:  Precisely so. And we add that our Theosophical Society is the humble seed which, if watered [...]

"Enq:  But is such truth unreachable outside of the society? Does not every Church claim the same?   Theo:  Not at all. The undeniable existence of great initiates - true "Sons of God" - shows that such wisdom was often reached by isolated individuals, never, however, without the guidance of a master at first.   [...]