ABSTRACT
The difficulties in arriving at a true estimate of the Theosophical Society are as nothing to the difficulty of obtaining an accurate notion of Theosophy itself. Theosophy is alleged to be a body of doctrine containing certain essential truths given to the world by a hierarchy of higher beings. According to Theosophy the first absolute and universal truth is the unity of God, who is the cause of all existences that have been, that are, and that are yet to be, the life beyond and living things, the consciousness in which inhere all consciousnesses, the changeless. The operation of Karma has been very elaborately worked out in the literature of Theosophy, but it is impossible to enter into this at all closely. Theosophy is authoritarian to what is probably a unique degree. So many and such startling assumptions are made on pure assertion that reasoned criticism is simply irrelevant.
