Our God Is Humanity, Our Cult the Love of Our Fellow-Man

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Theosophy and Theosophists Series · 22 pages

Twenty-two pages with a contents page and central ideas, *arranged as a lettered sequence of replies — A to F and beyond — to an article titled Revolution* by a writer signing himself Aleph. The statement it takes its title from stands alone at the front and is as compact a creed as the site contains.

That statement runs: the only God whom we should serve is Humanity, and our only cult should be the love of our fellow man; doing evil towards him, we wound God and make him suffer — this is our religion and only dogma. The lettered replies then work through Aleph's positions one at a time, and their range is wide. A is a swipe at the scientific establishment, which is said to be full of vanity and to strut on stilts of its own fabrication. B holds that a feeble ray from the Sun of Truth is worth more than the artificial lights offered by physiologists, pathologists and those elevated to the ranks of psychologists. C states one of the most-quoted theosophical positions, that the supernatural does not exist in nature once one knows how to awaken the latent principle that animates matter. D grounds divine wisdom in esoteric philosophy and the facts of nature. E is the harshest and is aimed at a kind of piety rather than at a critic: a solitary ascetic is called a living symbol of the most cowardly egotism — which is consistent with the line taken elsewhere in this batch that the hermit and the yogi are both egoists. F sets out what universal esotericism offers in place of what has been rejected: a periodic cosmic and human genesis, logical, based on the natural sciences as well as on a pure transcendental philosophy. Because it is a reply rather than an exposition, the file shows the doctrine being defended point by point against a specific opponent.

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