The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism February 1900

ON the physical plane man leads a double life within himself ; the inner or the uncognized and the outer or the cognized ; the latter being the outcome of the former just as the green foliage-bearing form is the product of the invisible roots embedded in the ground. [...] It is the inner life the gateway of the Infinite on which depends the progress of man which leads him to Truth and proves to him that the clay house and the Eternal Dweller who resides in that house are quite distinct from each other the one being the shadow the other the substance. [...] the greater the dissocition from the ephemeral and nearer the approach to the eternal The difference between the sacrifice of the Logos and the sacrifice of the human being is that the former sets limitations upon Himself while the latter frees himself from them. [...] The ultimate object of the sacrifice of the Logos is the infinite increase of His own interminable bliss whereas the object of the sacrifice of each son that is begotten of the Father is the assumption of the divinity of the Father. [...] The winter of the body is the spring of the spirit and the spring of the body is the winter of the spirit.