[Note: in the pages of Lucifer, aphorisms or brief explanations of specific topics, like the following, often appear at the close of articles. These are presumed to be by H.P.B.]
When the unit thinks only of itself, the whole, which is built of units perishes, and the unit itself is destroyed.
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What the true occultist seeks, is not knowledge, or growth, or happiness, or power, for himself; but having become conscious that the harmony of which he forms part is broken on the outer plane, he seeks the means to resolve that discord into a higher harmony.
This harmony is Theosophy—Divine or Universal Wisdom—the root whence have sprung all “religions,” that is all; “bonds which unite men together,” which is the true meaning of the word religion.
Therefore, Theosophy is not a “religion,” but religion itself, the very “binding of men together” in one Universal Brotherhood.