The duty of the Theosophical Society is to keep alive in man his spiritual intuition. This quotation from H. P. Blavatsky is chosen for a starting-point because it so aptly sums up her conception of the purpose of the Society she founded. The Theosophical Society was founded for the express purpose of preventing materialism from proceeding to such lengths as to destroy civilization. Such movements have been initiated, with the same object, many other times in human history.
Great powers are often the impediments to spiritual and right conceptions.
This is enough to show that the spiritual intuition meant is not of the vague unpractical kind or of the vainglorious kind. Through Theosophy man's mental and psychic growth will proceed in harmony with his moral improvement. This indeed makes all the difference between Wisdom and false knowledge, or between the use and abuse of faculties. He thus enters upon a path which leads him ever further from the light, and he must either lose his Soul or painfully retrieve his steps. This is proved both philosophically and by experience to be wrong.