In English
WHAT has sociology or the social sciences to do with the sciences of the spirit or the inquiry into the human spirit? This is a question that is commonly raised. So too, many do ask: What has the spiritual student and (spiritual aspirant) to do with society and its problems? It must be said, that both these attitudes are wrong. No society can find its fulfilment, no social ideal can fructify, without the blossoming of the spirit of man. Mankind cannot realise the Divinity whose expression it is, without careful and constant attention being paid to the cultivation of the spirit. How else can this Divinity express itself than in and through individuals? We can apprehend only the (world of change), this moving, inconstant, fantasia; we cannot see or hear, smell or taste or touch the Director of the fantasia, God. In the same manner, we can apprehend the individual, but not he entity named Society. For, Society is no separate, distinct, complex formed out of elemental components. Society is the divine proliferation produced by the Will Supreme.