C W Leadbeater

An Outline of Theosophy and the Christian Creed (2 Books) C W Leadbeater

An Outline Of Theosophy And The Christian Creed (2 Books) BOOK ONE AN OUTLINE OF THEOSOPHY For many a year men have been discussing, arguing, enquiring about certain great basic truths-about the existence and the nature of God, about His relation to man, and about the past and future of humanity. So radically have they differed upon these points, and so bitterly have they assailed and ridiculed one another's beliefs, that there has come to be a firmly-rooted popular opinion that with regard to all these matters there is no certainty available-nothing but vague speculation amid a cloud of unsound deductions drawn from ill-established premises. And this in spite of the very definite, though frequently incredible, assertions made on these subjects on behalf of the various religions. BOOK TWO THE CHRISTIAN CREED THERE are many students of Theosophy who have been, and indeed still are, earnest Christians; and though their faith has gradually broadened out into unorthodoxy, they have retained a strong affection for the forms and ceremonials of the religion into which they were born. It is a pleasure to them to hear the recitation of the ancient prayers and creeds, the time-honoured psalms and canticles, though they try to read into them a higher and wider meaning than the ordinary orthodox interpretation.