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ideal with which we started.
This ideal involves the per-
sistence OF the individual life stream
through repeated earth-lives- each
one the strict result OF the deeds of
the former, and receiving by an inn
partial and immutable law, the exact
conditions OF existence for which the
soul has fitted itself in the past.
Thus, through many stages, the uni
verse realizes itself-ever one, yet in
various grades of Observation-Disclosures
unfolding, yet doomed to battle with
the forces; by means Of which it grows
Students OF Theosophy, more, per-
haps, than any others, are brought
face to face with the deep mystery OF
Being. For them Nature has COM
prehensiveness which completely out
measures the wisdom of the wisest
human systems, since it includes them
all, and yet remains unapproachable
Though compelled to stand uncov-
cred before the profound unknowable-
ness OF Life, Theosophists can yet
claim, by the application of their
fundamental principles, a clearer in
sight into the purposes ofNature than
has been attained by other schools of
thought. They see in the mystery of
Beng a conception that includes also
the idea OF -Being-the condition
of absolute and limitless Existence of
which Being is but O transitory stage,
and towards which it can advance
only by effort. ~. ~. ..-s
The evils OF matter, then, do not, in
reality, mar the progress of the Uni
verse; they support it's life by giving it
the means whereby to win it's immor-
tality. Nature can make no mistake.
Suffering is good, and failure is good,
and the waste places of this stage
shall be the paradises OF the next, for
the Universe is ever unfolding from
it's divine germ, and all that appears
in it, having pre-existed from everlast-
ing in the Ideal Mind, must be part
OF the divine process.
In recognizing the vast unfolding OF
an ideal consciousness, on the same
lines as those by which a plant unfolds
from its germ, we perceive a fitness
and a harmony in all things, which
those are apt to miss who view the
Universe from one of it's transient
stages only. The Theosophical key
note of agreement in difference, con
joined with the endless evolution of
the One Principle, unlocks many an
fishes, moreover, a system of ethics
on a thoroughly philosophical basis.
Teaching that, though the potencies
one in it's essence and in every phase
OF it's manifestation, it inculcates the
principle of unity and altruism as the
essential of a Philosophical life.
No other point is insisted upon, for
in the recognition of Brotherhood and
Love lie all the Law and the Prophets
Theosophy sees in this all-pervading
principle, as applied to ethics, the
nucleus of force which shall revolution
ize the world.
1t is the road along which the Uni
verse moves in its slow, grand march
towards perfection, and they who re
allze their oneness with the Whole, in
purpose and end, must mold their
lives in accordance with its laws.
Selhshness Or separateness Is the
| absolute destroyer OF the purposes of
nature. In the lower kingdoms it is
necessary as q means Of acquiring I'M
ity. knowledge, and firmer basis Of
existence; in mankind who has entered
upon a larger life, the bestial should
be lost in the divine, the sense of sep
arateness in the nearer vision OF the
Whole.
Such is an imperfect outline of the
philosophy OF Theosophy-the record
| OF q divine Universe issuing from q
divine Source and journeying towards
a divine Ultimatum, the Alpa and the
Omega Of all things.