The Theosophist - A Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philospphy Art Literature and Occultism April 1913

The God trammelled by flesh the man aspiring up from the clay toward the seraphim ". The fleshly dwelling " our soul in its rose-mesh " pulling at the man; the Genius revolting from the sensual prison yet subjected to the discipline of the senses by necessity; the law which decrees that the God shall know the flesh ere the flesh know the God. [...] The rise and fall of religious creeds the evolution and the decay of philosophical systems are the commonplaces of the book of life the testimony to the permanence of the religious instinct and the raticinative faculty in humanity and to the transiency to their manifestations. [...] It appears to be quite certain that concentration on the bodily nature to the exclusion of the mental is not for the good of the whole man ; neither is concentration on the mental side to the exclusion of attention to the needs of the physical instrument. [...] The bond expresses the condition conceived by the founders of the Society to be absolutely essential to the attainment of the Theo-sophia which is the objective of the Society. [...] The two-fold aim of the Society—the ascetainment and dissemination of wisdom concerning the Divine and the development of humanity to the point of immediate cognition of the Divine—indicates a sagacious recognition of the dual aspects of human evolution to which we have referred : the historical horizontal or extensive aspect and the metaphysical vertical or intensive aspect.