It is unprofitable to try and explain that since there are in the T.S. as many Brahmins, Mussulmans, Parsis, Jews and Christians as there are Buddhists, and more, all cannot be expected to become followers of Buddha, nor even of Buddhism, howsoever esoteric. Prejudice against Theosophy seems to have become part of the national feeling. Theosophy is certainly not a philosophy, simply because it includes every philosophy as every science and religion. The answer would seem to be in the negative, since they fail to see that every such definition shows Theosophy to be the very synthesis of Philosophy in its widest abstract sense, as in its special qualifications. Let us try to give once more a clear and concise definition of Theosophy, and show it to be the very root and essence of all sciences and systems.
Theosophy claims to explain and to reconcile religion with science.
I., Prolegomena, p. Having shown that it falls under, and answers fully, every description of philosophy, we may add to the above a few more of Sir W. Hamilton's definitions, and prove our statement by showing the pursuit of the same in Theosophical literature. This is a task easy enough, indeed. We need not go out of our way to notice at any length such foolish statements about Theosophy and Theosophists as are found almost daily in the public press. They have been and in most cases will be left unnoticed.