CHAPTER X
BEGINNINGS

IN the previous three articles I have taken
what we might term a very everyday outlook
of Theosophy, or rather, I should saylan outlook
of Theosophical thought on the things of every
day. To-day I want to take altogether another
aspect of it and- tell you some of the things that
I have found written about the beginning of life
and the forms as we know them to-day. What
I find seems to me to appeal to my common-
sense and reason, but it does more than that,
it also coincides with the story of the creation
as Christians know it; differently told and
explained, enlarged and widened, bereft of all
its crudeness, baldness and unsatisfying nature,
yes, and presented to us in a way that is not only
believable but possible, likely, interesting and
alive. "We can take the description to the bar
of our reason, common-sense and sense of truth,
and we do not find it wanting. This is one of
the great powers that Theosophy, the Divine