First Sentence

"I THINK that if one asked the "ordinary person" or "the man in the street" for a definition of Theosophy, he would either say, "Oh, they are the people who believe in Mahatmas," or else possibly he would associate it with a string of unintelligible and unpronounceable Sanscrit terms, which wrap round and obscure anything tangible and get-at-able connected with the subject."