Secret Doctrine Vol. III - Esoterica

As for what you hear others say—those who persuade the common people that the soul, once freed from the body, neither suffers evil nor possesses consciousness—I know that you are better grounded in the doctrines we received from our ancestors and in the sacred rites original: "orgies," referring to the Greek orgia or secret ritual celebrations of Dionysus than to believe them. For the mystic symbols are well known to us who belong to the Brotherhood.

The problem of life is man. Magic—or rather, Wisdom—is the developed knowledge of the powers of man's interior being. These forces are divine emanations, just as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation is our introduction into that knowledge. "We begin with instinct; the end is universal knowledge original: "omniscience"."