When Pure Love Is Perverted, Humanity Quivers

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Nicomachus of Gerasa · Theosophy and Theosophists Series · 21 pages

Twenty-one pages opened by an abstract, *and it begins with one of the angriest sentences in the whole library*: oh, the unspeakable hypocrisy of our age, the age when everything under the sun and moon is for sale and bought.

The historical observation that follows explains the anger and is the file's real subject. Though centuries lapse and decades of ages drop out of the lap of time, though great reforms take place, empires rise and fall and rise again, and even whole races disappear before the triumphant march of civilisation — in his terrific selfishness the man that was is still the man that is. Against that stands the metaphysical claim, and the two together are what the file is for. In their essential constitution nature and man are one, since their essence is identical; everything on the planes of externality grows, develops and strives toward perfection, and is, as a philosopher put it, ever becoming — but on the ultimate plane of spiritual essence all simply is, and is therefore immutable. It is toward that eternal Esse that every thing and every being is gravitating, gradually and almost imperceptibly, but as surely as the universe of stars and worlds moves toward a mysterious point known to astronomy but still unnamed by it, and called by the occultists the Central Spiritual Sun. The abstract closes on the difficulty of holding both thoughts at once: that there are still men who, notwithstanding the chaotic condition of the moral world and the sorry debris of the best human ideals, persist in believing and teaching that human perfection is no dream but a law. The file's own answer is that the perversion of love, not its absence, is what makes humanity quiver.

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