Endurance Is The Free Companion Of Sorrow,

Dogma? Faith? These Are The Right And Left Pillars Of Every Soul-crushing Theology. Theosophists Have No Dogmas, Exact No Blind Faith.

Never Allow Any Unnecessary Or Vain Thought To Occupy Your Mind. This Is More Easily Said Than Done. You Cannot Make Your Mind A Blank All At Once. So In The Beginning Try To Prevent Evil Or Idle Thoughts By Occupying Your Mind With The Analysis Of Your Own Faults, Or The Contemplation Of The Perfect Ones.

Man Is Spiritual Being -- A Soul, In Other Words -- And That This Soul Takes On Different Bodies From Life To Life On Earth To Order At Last To Arrive At Such Perfect Knowledge, Through Repeated Experience, As To Enable One To Assume A Body Fit To Be The Dwelling-place Of A Mahatma Or Perfected Soul. Then, They Say, That Particular Soul Becomes A Spiritual Helper To Mankind.

It Is An Occult Law Moreover, That No Man Can Rise Superior To His Individual Failings Without Lifting, Be It Ever So Little, The Whole Body Of Which He Is An Integral Part. In The Same Way No One Can Sin, Nor Suffer The Effects Of Sin, Alone. In Reality, There Is No Such Thing As 'separateness' And The Nearest Approach To That Selfish State Which The Laws Of Life Permit Is In The Intent Or Motive.

Reflect Upon The Defects Of Your Character: Thoroughly Realize Their Evils And The Transient Pleasures They Give You, And Firmly Will That You Shall Try Your Best Not To Yield To Them The Next Time.