Great results ensue from
small beginnings, and the seeds of knowledge now being sown in the world
may ultimately bear prodigious harvest. We, who are present merely at
the sowing, may not realize the magnitude and importance of the impulse
we are concerned in giving, but that impulse will roll on, and a few
generations hence will be productive of tremendous consequences one way
or the other.
For occult philosophy is no shadowy system of speculation like any of
the hundred philosophies with which the minds of men have been
overwhelmed; it is the positive Truth, and by the time enough of it is
let out, it will be seen to be so by thousands of the greatest men who
may then be living in the world. What will be the consequence? The
first effect on the minds of all who come to understand it, is terribly
iconoclastic. It drives out before it everything else in the shape of
religious belief. It leaves no room for any conceptions belonging even
to the groundwork or foundation of ordinary religious faith. And what
becomes then of all rules of right and wrong, of all sanctions for
morality? Most assuredly there are rules of right and wrong thrilling
through every fibre of occult philosophy really higher than any which
commonplace theologies can teach; far more cogent sanctions for
morality than can be derived at second-hand from the distorted doctrines
of exoteric religions; but a complete transfer of the sanction will be
a process involving the greatest possible danger for mankind at the
time.
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