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"People in the present day will be slow to believe that any knowledge worth considering can be found outside the brigh…"

"Men of science in former ages worked in secret, and instead of publishing their discoveries, taught them in secret to…"

"The trials through which the neophyte has to pass are no fantastic mockeries, or mimicries of awful peril. Nor, do I …"

"Theosophical literature, from the outset of the great movement it inaugurated, has been largely concerned with previo…"

"For the present let us consider the position of the adepts as they now exist, or, to use the designation more general…"

"Preface to the Annotated Edition Since this book was first published in the beginning of 1883, I have come into posse…"

"In regard to the complaint itself, that the teachings here reduced to an intelligible shape are incorrectly described…"

"The external forms and fancies of religion in one age may be a little purer, in another a little more corrupt, but th…"

"For the value of these teachings will perhaps be most fully realized when we clearly perceive that they are scientifi…"