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.But as the matterstands, he must eat to live, and so we advise really earnest students to eatsuch food as will least clog and weight their brains and bodies, and willhave the smallest effect in hampering and retarding the development of theirintuition, their inner faculties, and powers.Q.Then you do not adopt all the arguments which vegetarians in general arein the habit of using?A.Certainly not.Some of their arguments are very weak, and often based onassumptions which are quite false.But, on the other hand, many of thethings they say are quite true.For instance, we believe that much disease,and especially the great predisposition to disease which is becoming somarked a feature in our time, is very largely due to the eating of meat, andespecially of tinned meats.But it would take too long to go thoroughly intothis question of vegetarianism on its merits; so please pass onto somethingelse.Q.One question more.What are your members of the Inner Section to do withregard to their food when they are ill?A.Follow the best practical advice they can get, of course.Don't you graspyet that we never impose any hard-and-fast obligations in this respect?Remember once for all that in all such questions we take a rational, andnever a fanatical, view of things.If from illness or long habit a mancannot go without meat, why, by all means let him eat it.It is no crime; itwill only retard his progress a little; for after all is said and done, thepurely bodily actions and functions are of far less importance than what aman thinks and feels, what desires he encourages in his mind, and allows totake root and grow there.Q.Then with regard to the use of wine and spirits, I suppose you do notadvise people to drink them?A.They are worse for his moral and spiritual growth than meat, for alcoholin all its forms has a direct, marked, and very deleterious influence onman's psychic condition.Wine and spirit drinking is only less destructiveto the development of the inner powers, than the habitual use of hashish,opium, and similar drugs.-oOo-Theosophy and MarriageQ.Now to another question; must a man marry or remain a celibate?A.It depends on the kind of man you mean.If you refer to one who intendsto live in the world, one who, even though a good, earnest Theosophist, andan ardent worker for our cause, still has ties and wishes which bind him tothe world, who, in short, does not feel that he has done forever with whatmen call life, and that he desires one thing and one thing only-to know thetruth, and to be able to help others-then for such a one I say there is noreason why he should not marry, if he likes to take the risks of thatlottery where there are so many more blanks than prizes.Surely you cannotbelieve us so absurd and fanatical as to preach against marriage altogether?On the contrary, save in a few exceptional cases of practical Occultism,marriage is the only remedy against immorality.Q.But why cannot one acquire this knowledge and power when living a marriedlife?Page 121 The Key To Theosophy - HP Blavatsky.txtA.My dear sir, I cannot go into physiological questions with you; but I cangive you an obvious and, I think, a sufficient answer, which will explain toyou the moral reasons we give for it.Can a man serve two masters? No! Thenit is equally impossible for him to divide his attention between the pursuitof Occultism and a wife.If he tries to, he will assuredly fail in doingeither properly; and, let me remind you, practical Occultism is far tooserious and dangerous a study for a man to take up, unless he is in the mostdeadly earnest, and ready to sacrifice all, himself first of all, to gainhis end.But this does not apply to the members of our Inner Section.I amonly referring to those who are determined to tread that path ofdiscipleship which leads to the highest goal.Most, if not all of those whojoin our Inner Section, are only beginners, preparing themselves in thislife to enter in reality upon that path in lives to come.-oOo-Theosophy and EducationQ.One of your strongest arguments for the inadequacy of the existing formsof religion in the West, as also to some extent the materialistic philosophywhich is now so popular, but which you seem to consider as an abomination ofdesolation, is the large amount of misery and wretchedness which undeniablyexists, especially in our great cities.But surely you must recognize howmuch has been, and is being done to remedy this state of things by thespread of education and the diffusion of intelligence.A.The future generations will hardly thank you for such a "diffusion ofintelligence," nor will your present education do much good to the poorstarving masses.Q.Ah! But you must give us time.It is only a few years since we began toeducate the people.A.And what, pray, has your Christian religion been doing ever since thefifteenth century, once you acknowledge that the education of the masses hasnot been attempted till now-the very work, if ever there could be one, whicha Christian, i.e
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