Truth Descends like Dew into the Pure Heart

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Éliphas Lévi · Living the Life Series · 16 pages

A sixteen-page compilation from Blavatsky and Éliphas Lévi, opened by an abstract and train of thoughts with page references. The running head states the theme: truth throbs in the pure heart.

The governing distinction is set out in the first line and everything follows from it: the rational part of man, being divine, knows, while the irrational part — what is commonly called reason — merely speculates. The examples given are of men judged by that measure rather than by their reputations. Swedenborg is called a natural-born seer but not an initiated adept, with the observation that his interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis is nonetheless the same as that of the Hermetic philosophers. Eugenius Philalethes is said never to have attained the highest pyrotechny, yet to have defined the philosopher's stone spiritually as a triune unity — with the extension that man is also a stone, physically, being the effect of a divine cause which is the universal solvent. The general claim follows: that the great sages of antiquity, those of the mediaeval ages and the mystical writers of more recent times were all Hermetists. Two observations close the abstract, and both are about self-deception. That truth is known to few, the rest being unwilling to withdraw the veil from their own hearts and imagining instead that it blinds their neighbour's eyes. And that instead of saying God made man in His own image, we ought in truth to say that man anthropomorphises God — imagining God after his own image.

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