{"product_id":"2940014271486","title":"Duties of the Theosophist","description":"An excerpt from the first lecture:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now, when we look over the modern world after these one-and-forty years, what do we see?  We see that Science and Religion again are clasping hands. We see that materialism is discredited, and that the leading men of science no longer use the name of agnostic. We find that the intuition of the heart is asserted  itself so  mightily  that the knowledge—the partial knowledge—of the head has had to give way before it; that Science is coming back to Religion; that those words of  Bacon  are true,   spoken with knowledge greater than normal, that \"while a little knowledge  inclineth men  to  atheism,  a larger knowledge bringeth them back to Religion.\"   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That is true; and the position  of Theosophy  in   the world shows how the Theosophist has striven in the past to do his duty to Religion. Materialism, we may say, is conquered. Science has entered  on  the  borderland  of  higher knowledge.    But   the  great  Gnosis  that was again proclaimed in New York—that  is far more than the knowledge which Science can  win  by  the study of that garment of God which we call the natural world, for the heart of man who is thirsting after God is not satisfied  therewith; it demands knowledge of the Divine Nature,  and the greatest  service   that Theosophy  has  done to  Religion in the past has been to declare,and once again to prove, that man can know God and not only believe in Him, that he can realise God, and not only hope that He is.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That has always been the  Royal Secret of the East. Here it was that in the elder times of our race, the great proclamation was made, so familiar to all of you; when the disciple asked the teacher : \" What is knowledge?  \" —knowledge was divided into two. There is the lower knowledge, the knowledge  of all sacred books, the knowledge of all  sciences,  the  knowledge of  everything that  the   brain   can   compass or, to  put it in what sometimes seems to  me the most explicit way, the  knowledge of everything that the  mouth can speak to the ear, the knowledge of everything that the teacher can give to the pupil, the knowledge of everything that man can give to man. That is the lower knowledge, however splendid it may be; that is the lower knowledge, however magnificent may be its range.\"","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156135919856,"sku":"2940014271486","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014271486_p0.jpg?v=1763604461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014271486","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}