Blavatsky H.P. - A Plea for a Personal God: Difference between revisions

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{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Editor's Note}}.—To the rather impertinent (No. 5) question of our Negapatam inquisitive correspondent, we answer: The “moral standard of the ''Theosophists''” is—{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Truth}}—and this covers all. Whether those who believe in a personal, or anthropomorphic deity, or those who call themselves Agnostics, or Atheists, or Buddhists or even Materialists, once that they have joined the Theosophical Society, they are bound to present to the world a far higher “standard of morality” than that which is developed merely through fear of hell or any other future punishment. The love of virtue for its own sake does not seem to enter in, or agitate the centres of our correspondent’s reflective faculties. If he would know more of theosophy and its ethics, we would refer him to the ''Rules of the Theosophical Society, its Objects and Principles.''