“There can be but one truth, and if we can find a formulation of that truth in logical, coherent, and consistent form, obviously we then can understand those portions of it equal to our capacity of comprehension.”

—  Gottfried de Purucker

Source: The Esoteric Tradition (1935), Chapter 1

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