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THEOSOPHY
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" Why, I have learned that as many ways there are to God as there are breaths among the sons of men.” Whence then this narrowness, this ignorance; it is onr pride, our desire to have a truth from which other men are shut ont, that we may feel ourselves unique and divinely favored, whereas the glory of the Spirit is in that it includes all and excludes none, and that none in whom the Divine Spirit dwells—and He dwells in all-can be shut ont from the all-embracing love of God. But men say: Religions teach differently. One says: Go this way; another says: Go that way; one says: Walk along this road; another says: Walk along mine. Don't we do the same? You want to come to Adyar. You are coming from Ceylon, from Trichinopoly, from Madura. Yon walk to the north, and if a man says: Which way shall I go to Adyar? the answer is: “Go north”. A man comes from Benares or Allahabad, and says: How shall I go to Advar: the answer is: “Go south”. A clear contradiction ; there is no doubt about it. When a man from Bombay says: How shall I get to Adyar? the answer is: “ Go east;” and from Burma : “Go west”. Contradictions manifest. Ah! God is the centre and we are all on the circumference; we come from many points, but there is but one centre to the circle and that is God Himself. He has placed us in many places, all rom the circle of His world. He is One; from Him we went out to the circumference, and to Him we shall return to the centre. Our faces may be set in different direction, but that is because we
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