In fact, it is the living system that contains the secret of regeneration. Their members lose interest and enthusiasm. They may whip up a short-lived enthusiasm by reminding themselves of their vows and obligations, their moral responsibility and so on. But these efforts are like flogging a dead horse. Organizations and societies are basically static.
Regeneration critically turns on the individual member.
Every such effort as the Theosophical Society has hitherto ended in failure because sooner or later it has degenerated into a sect, set up hard and fast dogmas of its own, and so lost by imperceptible degrees that vitality which living truth alone can impart. Here HPB speaks of the entropy afflicting an organization and how only living truth can reimpart vitality to it. Living truth is not conceptual or ideational, nor is it belief or convinction, nor even an ideal. All these are products of the mind. A living truth is a direct perception of truth.