We are puzzled, uncertain, and anxious. This diagnosis makes peculiarly pertinent the inquiry of Theosophy into the nature of the universe, because all ethical views must arise from what we think the individual is. All sense of how justice may become possible arises from what we believe about the origin and the destiny of the human individual. At the foundation of theosophical conceptions of cosmology, of the world, of origins, is an idea very different from either the theological or the scientific view. Theosophy finds the origin of everything in a fundamental Mind principle which is all pervasive.
Intelligence represents entities at work.
And the infinite diversity of the world is in the infinite diversity of degrees of illumination of these Monads. Every form in the world is made up of Life, or Monads. According to Theosophy, this is the reincarnating being. The result of this is a reciprocation, an illumination of the body and the psychic intelligence by the soul, and an extension of the avenues of perception of the soul by the sense-organs, the opening up to the individual of a vast panorama of physical and psychic experiences from which wisdom ultimately may be gained. Theosophy proposes, then, a basically psychological account of what is real, and of the roots of ethics and morality.