Madame Blavatsky on a Christian Minister Who Was Lost in God

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 13 pages

A courteous exchange, which makes it unusual in a series full of quarrels. The Rev. C.H.A. Dall wrote to the Indian Mirror in 1883 saying that skeptomai is Greek for I enquire, and that in the radical sense he was a sceptic about Theosophy — he did not understand it but was trying to find out what it was. He had read the report of the Society's seventh anniversary meeting with attention, and saw good in it: Theosophy, he wrote, means freedom, self-trust and self-control, courage and independence. What he feared was its narrowness as a plan of life.

Blavatsky's reply takes his objection seriously and answers it on his own ground. Man is truly the temple of God, she argues, because the Divine Principle can only be made objective to our consciousness through our senses, physical and spiritual; the personal God of a theosophist is perceived by his Higher Self through the spiritual senses, so that the Divine Self is perceived by the self of the virtuous man. The edition includes the diagram Theosophia: Fountain, Perspectives, Practice, and closes on the formula that recurs throughout the library — that Deity is Life and Law, and Law is Deity.

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