Your Thoughts Shape You

London, 1889. A package arrived at the doorstep of renowned atheist and political agitator Annie Besant. Inside lay "The Secret Doctrine," a book she had agreed to review, and demolish, for her magazine.

She read it once. Then again. Something shifted.

"No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned," she would later write. The woman who once declared, "The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about 'God' and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it," now found herself inexplicably drawn to the very spirituality she had mocked.

Her hands trembled as she penned her review. Not the scathing critique her readers expected, but an admission that shook Victorian society to its core.