Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

the arch of their philosophical system with a keystone at once perfect and immovable.
It is personal selfishness that develops and urges man on to abuse of his knowledge and power. And selfishness is a human building, whose windows and doors are ever wide open for every kind of iniquity to enter into man’s soul.
Plants would perish in their first stage of existence if they were kept exposed to a constant sunlight; the night alternating with the day is essential to their   healthy   growth   and   development. Goodness, likewise, would speedily cease to be such, were it not alternated by its opposite. In human, nature, evil denotes the antagonism of matter to the spiritual, and each is accordingly purified thereby. In the cosmos, the equilibrium must be preserved; the operation of the two contraries produces harmony, like the centripetal and centrifugal forces, and each is necessary to the other. If one is arrested, the action of the other will immediately become destructive.
The true Adept, the developed man, must, we are always told, become—he cannot be made. The process is, therefore, one of growth through evolution, and this must necessarily involve a certain amount of pain.
The Rosicrucian theory, that the whole universe is a musical instrument, is the Pythagorean doctrine of the music of the spheres. Sounds and colours are all spiritual numerals; as the seven prismatic rays proceed from one spot in heaven, so the seven powers of nature, each of them a number, are the seven radiations of the Unity, the central, spiritual SUN.
To become self-conscious, Spirit must pass through every cycle of being, culminating in its highest point on earth in Man. Spirit per se is an unconscious negative abstraction. Its purity in inherent, not

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