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Brothers to the Indian populatious, that these confessedly have become degraded, and have lost their own spirituality and power.*[1]
What other fate can befall us, as a Theosophical Society, if the very roots of our life, as such, draw their vitality from a decaying Tree, whose fruits, leaves, and branches are of "efflux" growth, and that of a descending order; inasmuch as it ignores the inmost "Law of Influx" from the Tree of Life of an inner causation? All outgrowth in that direction must, of necessity, sooner or later exhaust their vitality.
It is the new influx from the Grand Central Sun of all existences, that causes of the soul to rise to higher states and forms of consciousness; and by means of this, the newly evolved states therefrom, form a new series of a system—on an ascending scale which will never retrograde, as have done and do, the grades of a purely Planetary Cycle of incarnations, whose occultations shut out the direct light of Grand Eternal Sun.
The teachings of 'Theosophy' appear to imply that there is latent power possessed of self-sufficient energy, sufficient in itself for the evolvement of a new species, without the intervention of a still higher power.
For instance, can this alleged self-sufficient energy from an object without existing materials? Can it create a thought
- ↑ * The "tutelage of the Brothers to the Indian populations" is a fancy based on a misconception. Ever since Buddhism with its esoteric interpretations of the Vedas and other sacred books was driven out of the country by the ambition and jealousy of the Brahmins, the truths of esotericism began to fade out of the memory of those populations until there now remains hardly one Brahmin in ten thousand who understands the Shastras at all. Hindus were degraded for the same reason that life and spirit have gone out of Christianity. The increase of wealth-bred sensuality, quenched spiritual aspiration and intuition, plugged the ears that once listened and shut the eyes that once saw the teachers. And at last by gradual deterioration of species, multiplications of war, and increased scarcity of food supply, the prime question became that of a struggle for life to the obliteration of spiritual yearnings.—T. S. R.
