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"Enq:  Cannot you give more details about these, so that I may know what to answer when asked - a brief history of the Society, in short; and why the world believes all this?   Theo:  The reason is simple. Most outsiders knew absolutely nothing of the Society itself, its motives, objects or beliefs. From [...]

"Enq:  And are they known to many of you, or to yourself alone?   Theo:  I never said I knew them. I may or may not know them - but I know of them, and this is sufficient; and I defy them to do their worst. They may achieve great mischief and throw confusion into [...]

"Enq:  If Theosophy is even half of what you say, why should there exist such a terrible ill-feeling against it? This is even more of a problem than anything else.   Theo:  It is; but you must bear in mind how many powerful adversaries we have aroused ever since the formation of our Society.   [...]

"Enq:  Yes;  but I have heard you congratulate yourself at the ever-increasing number of the Agnostics and Atheists in our day, so that it appears that even people trained in the system you abuse so heartily do learn to think and reason for themselves.   Theo:  Yes;  but it is rather owing to a healthy [...]

"Enq:  But surely he is taught something besides "dead vocables", and much of that which may lead him direct to Theosophy, if not entirely into the Theosophical Society?   Theo:  Not much. For of history, he will attain only sufficient knowledge of his own particular nation to fit him with a steel armour of prejudice [...]