Fundamentos De Teosofia (vuoden 1997 painos)

FIRTS PRINCIPLES OF THEOSOPHY

INTRODUCTION

THEOSOPHY is the wisdom arising from the
study of the evolution of life and form. This
wisdom already exists, because the study has
been pursued for long ages by properly equipped
investigators into nature's mysteries. The
tigators, who are called the Masters of
the Wisdom, are those souls who in the
evolutionary process have passed beyond the stage
of man to the next higher, that of the "Adept".

As man evolves to Adept, he gains knowledge
by-investigation and experiment. The knowl
edge so far gained by an unbroken line of
Adepts is Theosophy, the Ancient Wisdom.

As man becomes Adept, he ceases to be
merely an item in the evolutionary process,
and appears as a master and director of that
process, under the supervision of a great
Consciousness called in Theosophy the Locos. He
is enabled, as a co-operator with the Locos,
to see nature from His standpoint, and to some
extent survey her, not as her helpless tool, but...