Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Theosophy asserts the existence of a primeval teaching, tantamount to a revelation, yet deduced from fact and experience. This teaching is known to certain choice souls, is preserved by them, and though at times obscured in different nations, is handed down through the generations of mankind. It runs through science and all religions, and shows a single underlying basis, of which the various phases it exhibits are but variants...
...never to be repeated was to go to work vigorously to ferret out the offenders. Morever the action taken by the students Monday night was approved by the public press and apparently by the people at large. To fail to carry out the intentions of the previous meeting was tantamount to backing down from our position...