Attune Your Self with the Self in All

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Living the Life Series · 14 pages

A fourteen-page compilation opened by an abstract and train of thoughts with page references. The running head states the charge it lays on the reader: be a fearless apostle of compassion.

The argument is historical before it is ethical. The Divine Spirit in man, long shunned by a crass material world, is described as having awakened and as about to assert its right to recognition — though pride turns that same spirit into a blind wanderer, mocked like a buffoon among buffoons and left unheard in the darkness of matter. The present moment is characterised as a death struggle between mysticism and materialism, with the voice of the human soul proclaiming the resurrection of the Divine Spirit in the foremost representatives of thought and learning. A passage on authorship follows that bears on how a library like this one works: books do not represent one man, but are the mirror of a host of men. From this comes the prediction the piece is built towards — that those who, amid the wholesale worship of matter, have bravely fought for human rights and man's divine nature will become, if they win, the teachers of the masses in the coming century and thus their benefactors; and that the new era will have struck only for those who learned to express and put into practice the aspirations and the physical needs of the trampled-down masses. The condition attached is exacting: to comprehend the pain of individual life one must devote oneself with the fervour of unselfish philanthropy and unconditional love, attuning one's soul with that of humanity at large — like the snow flowers of northern Siberia, which must force their way up through frozen soil.

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