Excerpt from The True Church of Christ, Exoteric and Esoteric
The origin of the first appearance of these papers in the pages of Lucifer was to attempt to correct misconceptions. Writers of great ability and honesty were often found to postulate as Church doctrines things which had never been and never could be taught by the Church, though they might have been enunciated by persons ostensibly members of the Church, but over whom the Church could have no control; the false teaching and evil lives of professing Christians in all ages were ascribed to Christianity, which should be ascribed to professing Christians who were not really such.
The evidences of this position are mostly in voluminous and somewhat difficult works, not easy of access to the generality, and hardly likely to be familiar to the average man who is not a member of the Church, while of manuals there are many, and few trustworthy, since they mostly seek to support a particular view, and are characterized rather by bold assertion and rhetorical disquisition than by a statement of evidence and logical deduction therefrom.
To the bulk of non-Christians, or of Christians who are not members of the Church, it is hopeless to speak; but Theosophists by the mere fact of being such must hold that "There is no Religion higher than Truth."
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