Invisible Helpers

INVISIBLE HELPERS

CHAPTER I.

THE UNIVERSAL BELIEF IN THEM.

It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it restores to people, in a more rational form, everything that was truly useful and helpful to them in the religions they have outgrown. Many who have broken through the chrysalis of blind faith, and mounted on the wings of reason and intuition to the freer, nobler mental life of more exalted levels, nevertheless feel that in the process of this glorious gain, something has been lost—that in giving up the beliefs of their childhood, they have also cast aside much of the beauty and poetry of life.

If, however, their lives in the past have been sufficiently good to earn them the opportunity of coming under the benign influence of Theosophy, they very soon discover that even in this particular, there has been no loss at all, but an exceedingly great gain.