The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
UNIVERSALLY OF BEING,
The Philosophy of Theosophy
Explained by One Who Has
Learned It.
NOTHING Is OR WAS CREATED.
Matter Is Revealed Spirit, Spirit Is
Matter Unrevealed, an Axiom
of the Faith.

The philosophy of theosophy includes
all there is to know and to he. To the
student of theosophy there may be un-
known things, but there are no unknown
realms of existence.
His philosophy IS also the science of
sciences, because it teaches understand
ingly the why, the purpose and the ulti-
mate of all existences. The basic prin-
ciple of this science and philosophy is
recognition of the unerring operation of
the law of cause and effect as witnessed in
the processes of evolution and lnvolution,
but the student must demonstrate for
himself that the law of cause and effect is
unerring in its operation.
Theosophy denies that there was a "be-
ginning" or that there will be an lending"
of anything animate or inanimate, SO
called. That is TO say, not anything was
crea ted, but by the spontaneity of action
bv and through the operation of universal
Ii ife-life that creates not anything, but
adjusts all things to the process of unfold
ment according TO the law of sympathetic
attraction-Brahm, or the impersonal
ca use is manifested In matter, which is an
attribute of himself. Hence, "spirit is
un revealed matter, and matter is revealed
spirit" This is logically true, because
creation would necessitate a creator and
ma terial separate from himself out of
which to create, and this IN turn
would oblige the adoption of a hypothesis
that the creator and the material were
coeXlStent. since even creator could not
make something out of nothing; and,
moreover, the admission that anything
could be destroyed would drive one to ad-
nit that the thing that could be destroyed
was separate and apart from universal life
and independent of the sustaining power
of nature. That proposition is logically un-
tenable, for if God is in and through al.
things nothing could be destroyed without
circumscribing Gods omnipresence, and
that would subject the Almighty TO the
caprice of destructible materiality. Scien-
tifically speaking, the most minute atom
is as necessary to the existence of God as
God is necessary to the existence of the
atom, and, hence, if one were to go into
nothiDgness the other would have to go
Also
Theosophy holds steadfast to the scientific
truth of the universally of being and the
inter dependence OF all things. 1t is this
that Paul had in mind when he wrote to
the Romans that "None of US liveth to
himself, and no man dieth to himself"
The esoteric meaning of Paui's doctrine of
predestination is entirely in harmony with
the philosophy of theosophy-a philosophy
that had been taught all over Asia for
ages before Paul's day and generation.
The doctrine of the oneness or SOLIDARITY
and the interdependence of all things is,
in fact, the substructure of practically all
religious faiths and beliefs. Ice water and
steam are one in substance but in widely
different form. To illustrate: Ice is thor
oughly inert matter. By the process of
transform at ion or unfoldnent it becomes
-
steam, and then ether, which is that in
visible substance that fills the plane
tary system. Ii science can convert ice into
ether, why cannot science transform ether
by the reverse process into ice? Theosophy
says it can be and is done by those who
are masters of the forces of nature, and.
moreover, the philosophy of theosophy
teaches by logical reasoning and by
demonstration that such mastership lies
potentially in every entity in the universal
whole.
In man the individuallzed life principle
has reached state of spiritual unfold
ment, which removes him very far from
the bacillus, for he has power TO reason
and to understand, but while it is most
sublime point on the upward journey from
Cosmos to Nirvana it is also crowded to the
full with responsibility. 1t is a sublime
state OF existence when considered in the
light of individual possibilities. but it is
fearful when one sees and understands in
the presence of God in manifestation as
shown in the complete oneness of all
things and in the Universally of being,
that individual independence and the in
terdependence of all entities require of
every man that be be in some measure his
brothers keeper, and also be responsible in
some degree for whatever of woe befalls
his brother.
His brother is every human being. The
law OF universally of being makes a re-
latlonship to exist between all things. high
and low, animate and inanimate, with
certain tasks for each to complete, and to
willfully make the task of a single thing
harder to do is to defy the power of the
universe and invite the wrath of the source
and maintainer of being.
1t is sublime to love truth and righteous
ness with all the heart and mind and soul
and to love ones neighbor sincerely and
unselfshly. 70 do this is to live accord
ing TO the philosophy of theosophy.
Without the doctrine of Karma and
Reincarnation there would be no theo-
sophlcal students, for unless given effect
may be traced TO the cause, and an expla-
nation demanded of cause why it itself
exists, and why such an effect is produced
by it, nothing is left TO him but blind faith
IN this or that dogma or creed. But the
theosophical student sees that some of the
entities which compose the universal
whole possess active consciousness while
others apparently possess none at all, and
then he discovers different degrees of con-
sciousness according as entities approach
mans 'sestate, and finally when he asks him.
self if it is an exhibition of the caprice or
likes or dislikes of supreme intelligence
that he sees in the various degrees of
consciousness, or is it all the result of
natural law making through environment
by evolutionary processes, he is certain to
reject the idea of chance or caprice and
attribute the difference in the degree of
consciousness in capable man and an
animal OF the forest to embodiment, and
the next step is to inquire what it is un-
folds.
This fetches him face to face with the
philosophy of monadology. where he finds
the root of existence to be in reincarnation,
and in Karma he finds soil in which the
ego plants causes and gathers effects.
The student then, without stopping to
unravel the mysteries of cosmogony, finds
that the bowlder in the darkness of the
mountains cavern is a manifestation of
supreme energy, and that potentially it is
the highest individualized intelligence,
but that it does not know it. nor anything
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