Esoteric Christianity, or, The lesser mysteries / by Annie Besant.

  • Besant, Annie, 1847-1933.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Esoteric Christianity, or, The lesser mysteries / by Annie Besant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    repeats itself again and again, no matter how often it is silenced ; and it thus proves itself to be an inherent tendency in human nature, an ineradicable constituent thereof. Those who declare triumphantly, “ Lo! it is dead! ” find it facing them again with undiminished vitality. Those who build without allowing for it find their well- constructed edifices riven as by an earth- quake. Those who hold it to be outgrown find the wildest superstitions succeed its denial. So much is it an integral part of humanity, that man will have some answer to his questionings ; rather an answer that is false, than none. If he cannot find religious truth, he will take religious error rather than no religion, and will accept the crudest and most incongruous ideals rather than admit that the ideal is non-existent. Religion, then, meets this craving, and taking hold of the constituent in human nature that gives rise to it, trains it, strengthens it, purifies it and guides it towards its proper ending—the union of the human Spirit with the divine, so “ that God may be all in all.”' ‘ I Cor. XV. 28.