Indian occultism is the most acceptable. Materialistic Europe, having betrayed the faith of Christ, finds it easy to accept Eastern spiritualism. It is a strange and terrible thing to say, but Christianity is becoming more foreign and less acceptable to the modern mind of Christian Europe than Buddhism. The popularization of occult doctrines is of enormous symptomatic significance for our time. The way of positivism and rationalism, along which modern man has traveled, has already shown its terrible fruits, and man now yearns for a return to his secret and pristine sources.
Theosophy wishes to bring modern man to mysticism and religion with no sacrifice.
Theosophy is afraid of frightening modern man, drunk with the spirit of extreme self-assertion, having lost his capacity for sacrifice and renunciation. In occultism, there seems to be neither freedom nor meaning nor light at the beginning of the way. Man must proceed in the dark, climb an endless darkened stairway on which no single merciful ray of light falls. Occult knowledge is somehow not an active process of giving meaning. Man does not stand against cosmic forces as a god-like substantial being, bringing meaning into the world process man is the passive tool of cosmic forces, and ought to abandon himself to the atomizing cosmic wind.