17. Life Questions The Theosophical Movement

The conditions under which the Theosophical movement exists will be better understood than is often the case at present if we consider that the essence of it consists in the publication of some of those truths which were formerly regarded exclusively as so-called secret sciences. Such truths are those now proclaimed in writing and word about the nature of man, that is, his structure from the limbs of the physical, mental and spiritual world, his development and gradual perfection through a series of earthly lives; furthermore, about the law of the connection between cause and effect in the spiritual world, which is usually referred to as karma; and also about certain processes of the earth's development, which are revealed to the open eye of the seer and which must be known if one wants to understand man's higher destiny. In addition, there are certain insights into the higher spiritual worlds, without which one cannot have any understanding of the development of the world, and without which one cannot know anything about what lies hidden behind death, what is to be regarded as the invisible and immortal part of human nature.