The Wanting Of Advice Is The Sign

Men Are At Every Stage Of Evolution, From The Most Barbarous To The Most Developed; Men Are Found Of Lofty Intelligence, But Also Of The Most Unevolved Mentality; In One Place There Is A Highly Developed And Complex Civilisation, In Another A Crude And Simple Polity.

If My Interlocutor Desires To Convince Me That Jupiter Has Inhabitants, And That His Description Of Them Is Accurate, It Is For Him To Bring Forward Evidence In Support Of His Contention. The Burden Of Proof Evidently Lies On Him; It Is Not For Me To Prove That No Such Beings Exist Before My Non-belief Is Justified, But For Him To Prove That They Do Exist Before My Belief Can Be Fairly Claimed. Similarly, It Is For The Affirmer Of God's Existence To Bring Evidence In Support Of His Affirmation; The Burden Of Proof Lies On Him.

The Divine Life Is The Spirit In Everything That Exists, From The Atom To The Archangel; The Grain Of Dust Could Not Be Were God Absent From It; The Loftiest Seraph Is But A Spark From The Eternal Fire, Which Is God. Sharers In One Life All Form One Brotherhood. The Immanence Of God, The Solidarity Of Man, Such Are The Basic Truths Of Theosophy.

We Were An Ill-matched Pair, My Husband And I, From The Very Outset; He, With Very High Ideas Of A Husband's Authority And A Wife's Submission, Holding Strongly To The 'master-in-my-own-house Theory,' Thinking Much Of The Details Of Home Arrangements, Precise, Methodical, Easily Angered And With Difficulty Appeased.

There Is Far More Misunderstanding Of Islam Than There Is, I Think, Of The Other Religions Of The World. So Many Things Are Said Of It By Those Who Do Not Belong To That Faith.