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| The New York City building in which H.P.B. rented a flat, they call it the “Lamasery.” It is where she wrote "Isis Unveiled," and it is where the "Miracle Club" met. |
What is it then, which makes me say what in deepest seriousness & a full knowledge of its truth I have said? What is it that makes me not only content but proud to stand for the brief moment as the mouthpiece & figure-head of this movement, risking abuse, misrepresentation, & every vile assault? It is the fact that in my soul I feel that behind us, behind our little band, behind our feeble, newborn organization, there gathers a mighty power that nothing can withstand—the power of truth! - Henry Steele Olcott, Inaugural Address, November 17, 1875
You must bear in mind how many powerful adversaries we have aroused ever since the formation of our Society... Intrinsically, Theosophy is the most serious movement of this age; & one, moreover, which threatens the very life of most of the time-honoured humbugs, prejudices, & social evils of the day — those evils which fatten & make happy the upper ten & their imitators & sycophants, the wealthy dozens of the middle classes, while they positively crush & starve out of existence the millions of the poor. We have to contend against... - H.P. Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy (1889)
Although it contains by derivation the name God & thus may seem at first sight to embrace religion alone, it does not neglect science, for it is the science of sciences & therefore has been called the wisdom religion. For no science is complete which leaves out any department of nature, whether visible or invisible, & that religion which, depending solely on an assumed revelation, turns away from things & the laws which govern them is nothing but a delusion, a foe to progress, an obstacle in the way of man's advancement toward happiness. Embracing both the scientific & the religious, Theosophy is a scientific religion & a religious science. - William Q. Judge, Ocean of Theosophy (1893)
