Popular Lectures on Theosophy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Popular Lectures on Theosophy

There have been of late months so many enquiries about Theosophy that I thought I would take advantage of my being here for some time to give a course of lectures covering practically the main outlines and teaching of this much talked of subject - Theosophy; so that any one who is not a student may be able to realize the general trend of thought and the scope of the subject with which we shall have to deal in the next five weeks. I shall try to put the subject as plainly as it can well be put, and to avoid technicalities as far as possible, so that nothing more may be wanted for the first understanding of this subject by a man who possesses a certain amount of intelligence and education. I do not pretend that Theosophy in all its aspects can be made intelligible to the uneducated or to the thoughtless. But, for a person of ordinary intelligence and education, accustomed to use his mind in the affairs of the world, nothing more than sustained attention and every-day intelligence are required in order to understand its main teachings in a coherent and synthetical way. Some of the teachings are so simple that even the uneducated can grasp enough for the guidance of conduct. But the way in which one is linked to another, the fashion in which the whole of them together build up a great Synthesis of Life - this is a conception somewhat difficult to be understood unless a man possesses some education.

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