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All-Knowing. His command when He desires a thing is just to say to
it, “Be!” and it is. Glory be to Him Who has the Dominion of all
things in His Hand. To Him you will be returned. (Surah Ya Sin: 77-
83)

Man came to be by Allah’s command “Be!” and lives his life ac-
cording to his destiny as determined by Allah. He will meet the angels
of death at the time chosen by Allah and will account for all his actions
in his life. It is therefore nonsensical and irrational in equal measures to
believe that man, helpless and dependent as he is, could acquire by his
own efforts supernatural powers. This fraud that “places man at the
center of existence and depicts him as unaccountable to anyone” has

been promoted by circles of a materialistic worldview.
In reality, Blavatsky’s teachings are nothing but a version of the
same atheist worldview and the “theory of evolution” was the other
factor that shaped this society’s ideology. Professor Rama P.
Coosmaraswamy, history professor at the St Thomas Aquinas School of
Theology, and known for his papers published on theology and phi-
losophy, describes the Theosophical Society founded by Blavatsky as
follows:

“Strongly influenced by the evolutionary thinking of that era, the
Theosophists also believed in the existence of "masters" who were either
"spirit beings" or men who were supposedly more highly "evolved" than the
common heard... Theosophists were from the start against all orthodox forms
of Christianity, and above all against the Roman Catholic Church. They at-
tacked it both from without and from within - the latter by forming various
organizations such as Esoteric or Hermetic Christianity and later the so-
called Liberal Catholic Church.” 142

The Theosophist Society’s ideology correlated to the materialistic
and evolutionary worldview. They also irrationally rejected the exis-

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