Book excerpt: Before any work of practical Theosophy, religion and dogma, theological and scholastic differences, nay even esoteric knowledge itself, are but secondary accessories, accidental details. All these must give precedence to and disappear before Altruism — real Buddha- and Christ-like altruism, of course, not the theoretical twaddle of Positivists — as the flickering tongue of gas light in street lamps pale and vanish before the rising sun.