Experience is the only method of knowing.
Therefore, to Know, is to Become.
The Modulus of Nature, that is, the Pattern, after which she everywhere builds, and the Method to which she continually conforms is an Ideal, or Archetypical Man.
The Perfect Man is the anthropomorphic God. A living, potential Christ in every human soul.
Two natures meet on the human plane, and focalize in man.
These are the Animal Ego and the Higher Self. The one, an inheritance from lower life. The other, an overshadowing from the next higher plane.
The Animal Principle is Selfishness. The Divine Principle is Altruism.
However defective in other respects human nature may be, all human endeavor must finally be measured by the principle of Altruism and must stand or fall by the measure in which it inspires and uplifts Humanity.
The highest tribunal is the criterion of Truth, and the test of truth is by its use and beneficence. ‘BY THEIR WORK YE MAY KNOW THEM.’
Superstition is not Religion; Speculation is not Philosophy; Materialism is not Science; but true religion, true philosophy and true science are ever the handmaids of Truth, and will at last be found in perfect harmony.”