Theosophy - The Omnipresent Proteus by H.P.Blavatsky
The
Omnipresent Proteus
by H.P.Blavatsky
All original thinkers and investigators
of the hidden side of nature whether materialists -- those who find in matter
"the promise and potency of all terrestrial life," or spiritualists -- that
is, those who discover in spirit the source of all energy and of matter as well,
were and are, properly Theosophists. For to be one, one need not necessarily
recognize the existence of any special God or a deity. One need but worship
the spirit of living nature and try to identify oneself with it. To revere that
Presence, the invisible Cause, which is yet ever manifesting itself in
its incessant results; the intangible, omnipotent, and omnipresent Proteus:
indivisible in its Essence, and eluding form, yet appearing under all and every
form; who is here and there and everywhere and nowhere; is ALL, and NOTHING:
ubiquitous yet one; the Essence filling, binding, bounding, containing everything,
contained in all. It will, we think, be seen now, that whether classed as Theist,
Pantheists or Atheists, such men are all near kinsmen to the rest. Be what he
may, once that a student abandons the old trodden highway of routine, and enters
upon the solitary path of independent thought -- Godward -- he is a Theosophist,
an original thinker, a seeker after the eternal truth, with "an inspiration
of his own" to solve the universal problems. |