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THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY
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QUESTION AND ANSWER,
OF THE
ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY
FOR THE STUDY OF WHICH THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HAS
BEEN FOUNDED.
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SECTION I.
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THEOSOPHY AND THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:
The Meaning of the Name 1
The Policy of the Theosophical Society... 4
The Wisdom-Eeligion Esoteric in all Ages 7
Theosophy is not Buddhism 12
SECTION II.
EXOTERIC AND ESOTEKIC THEOSOPHYJ:
What the Modern Theosophical Society is not... 16
Theosophists and Members of the "T.S." 20
The Difference between Theosophy and Occultism... 25
The Difference between Theosophy and Spiritualism 27
Why is Theosophy accepted? 35
SECTION III.
THE WORKING SYSTEM OF THE T.S.:
The Objects of the Society... 39
The Common Origin of Man... 41
Our other Obj…