I mentioned ceremonies, rites of every faith.

Those Theosophy looks at and understands.

So many have cast away ceremonies, even if they have found them helpful, because they do not understand them, and fear superstition in their use.

Knowledge has two great enemies: Superstition and Scepticism.

Knowledge destroys blind superstition by asserting and explaining natural truths of which the superstition has exaggerated the unessentials; and it destroys scepticism by proving the reality of the facts of the unseen world.