MANY attempts have been made to compare the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson with other systems of thought. When it is compared with Theosophy, a new point of view must be taken. For Theosophy is not a philosophy, but the Root-Source from which all philosophies have sprung. It is not the result of one man's speculation, but the synthesis of the knowledge of the ages which has been accumulated, recorded and preserved by a long …
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…the warrior-soul, the trumpet blast that spurs each man into action. That which energizes the warrior is his own power of Self-Reliance, his capacity to move from the spiritual center within, his determination to sacrifice the lower to the higher. The end of the battle will surely come when "...the soul is raised over passion. It seeth identity and Eternal Causation. It is a perceiving what Truth and Right are. Hence it becomes a Tranquillity."