Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00949)

ALTRUISM
    

   "... true evolution teaches us that 
by altering the surroundings of the organism 
we can alter and improve the organism;  
and in the strictest sense this is true 
with regard to man.  Every Theosophist, 
therefore, is bound to do his utmost to 
help on, by all the means in his lower, 
every wise and well-considered social 
effort which has for its object the 
amelioration of the con-dition of the poor.  
Such efforts should he made with a view 
to their ultimate social emancipation, 
or the development of the sense of duty 
in those who now so often neglect it in 
nearly every relation of life."
    

    "... no Theosophist has the right to 
this name, unless he is thoroughly imbued 
with the correctness of Carlyle's truism:  
'The end of man is an action and not a thought, 
though it were the noblest'  - and unless 
he sets and models his daily life upon 
this truth."
    

    "... the main, fundamental object of 
the Society is to sow germs in the hearts 
of Men, which may in time sprout, and 
under more propicious circumstances lead 
to a healthy reform, conducive of more 
happines to the masses than they have 
hitherto enjoyed."
            

         - The Key to Theosophy, pp. 235, 230, 257.
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