Aletheia Is Our God and Dogma

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Theosophy and Theosophists Series · 11 pages

Eleven pages opened by a short abstract, with a frontispiece, Ellipticae, by Clint Cline. *This is the file that explains the name of the whole site*: Philaletheia, love of truth, and Aletheia, truth itself, are the terms it is built on.

The abstract states the argument compactly enough to be worth following closely. It is in the heart that semen finds its support, for through the heart we come to know truth. Modern science and the religions alike are said to dissemble truth, and only the theogony of the ancient Wisdom-Religion is held to afford a rare glimpse of it — after which nature will give up her secrets, but only to those who seek truth for her own sake, who disregard personal benefit, who persevere, and who teach. The core of the piece is a formulation about justice borrowed from the scholastic argument over divine command: that which is justice is truth, and as a thing is not just because God wills it but God wills it because it is just, so there can be no religion truer or juster than to know the things that are — no religion higher than truth. The last step is the one that gives the file its title and the movement its motto: happiness cannot exist where truth is absent and where intellectual progress refuses to be subordinated to ethical growth, and if bereft of truth the whole world will turn upside down, which is why Philaletheia is every true theosophist's god and dogma. An epigraph from Alexander Wilder sets the register — Aletheia is the breath of God, or Life, the conscious mind in man.

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