The individual is essentially a spiritual being, whose mind and body are only temporary means of self-expression and self-unfoldment. When this true Self is discovered and becomes the directing power, there is permanent peace for the individual. Without that discovery, peace is impossible. The search for and the discovery of the Self is therefore of supreme importance.
The evolution of the spiritual Self to perfection through successive lives on Earth is the true purpose of human existence.
A person’s experiences are decided by the operation of the law of cause and effect. Cruelty brings war to nations and pain and disease to individuals. There is no possible escape from this sequence.
Inversely, kindness brings happiness and health. Until this law is recognized and accepted as a rule of life, there will continue to be both war and disease.
The Spirit within humanity is one. Each being belongs to one spiritual people which is without divisions of any kind.
Experience of this unity, and its applications to human life, constitute the only possible means whereby lasting peace can be established on Earth and assured health and happiness be attained by every human being.
Such, in part, are the teachings of the wisdom of the ages. Such is the path to health, happiness, perfection and eternal peace. Theosophy must not, however, be regarded as a completed system to be accepted as such. On the contrary, as must be true of everything organic and spiritual, Theosophy cannot have a fixed geometrical outline the whole of which can, as it were, be traced on paper by rule and compass. Certain aspects, such as the ideas and experiences of oneness and of the eternal Self, refuse to be objectively defined; for this would be setting a limit to both truth itself and one’s capacity to discover it as interior experience.
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