SOME EFFECTS OF THEOSOPHY 63

to break through, as it were, and claim its own
and be recognised. We are all seeking
something greater than ourselves. We all
acknowledge, therefore, something greater than
ourselves. There is no such person as the one who
disbelieves in this something greater than
himself. He may cavil; he may say he wants
proof; he may say there is no proof to be
got; he may say he will wait and see; but
within himself there is always that some-
thing that is fluttering after life which tells
him in a thousand ways that he (his body) is
not the beginning and the end, that there is
something greater, something behind, something
above, and something below. So he cannot
get away from it, and he is silent, knowing full
-well the truth of what is told though a veil
seems to cloud him.

In realising the truths of Theosophy one
becomes changed. Possibly if I speak to-day a
little of this change, it will be a reply to the
question "What is Theosophy? " in another form,
and will at least show some of the effect of
Theosophical thought.

I have alluded to the question in former articles
why children should be born into the world to
suffer, and I tried to show that the suffering of
this life is the effect of that which has been