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THEOSOPHY
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as spirituality passed out of your religion, India went down and down. Trace the order. First the spirituality lessens, then intellectual power diminishes, and lastly, material presperity grows less and less. That is the order throngh which every nation passes, when it is going downward. First, the religion shows it; then the intellect shows it; and lastly, as a result, the outer prosperity shows it. How then shall it be re-built? By beginning with the spirituality, by building up again the spiritual life, by vivifying again the spiritual thought, by telling men that only where the Spirit is, there is the source of life, and that where that lives, there live all good things. That has been the first work, the great work of the Society. And the second stage is the intellectual. Do you notice how the Society has gradually taken that up, how it has helped religions in their educative influences as well, and how, the second stage of its work here, where it is so necessary, is to build up the right type of education, so that the intellect may develop, and yet be dominated by the Spirit and accompanied by right emotion and right conduct. That is the second stage of the theosophical work, to give the intellect back to the nation. Given the spiritual, given the intellectual, the material will follow of itself. That is but an effect, that is but a result. I spiritual and highly trained intellectnal people, they can shape their own road, they can build their own prosperity. Is prosperity vanished and the intelleet legeneratou, as spirituality passed, so will prosperity come back inevitably after a true religion and right clucation
