In the words of a true Philaletheian. . .

“What every man needs first is to find himself,
and then take an honest inventory of his
subjective possessions, and, bad or bankrupt as
it may be, it is not beyond redemption if we set
about it in earnest.” But how many do? All are
willing to work for their own development and
progress; very few for those of others. To quote
the same writer again: “Men have been deceived
and deluded long enough; they must break their
idols, put away their shams, and go to work for
themselves — nay, there is one little word too
much or too many, for he who works for himself
had better not work at all; rather let him work
himself for others, for all. For every flower of
love and charity he plants in his neighbor's
garden, a loathsome weed will disappear from
his own, and so this garden of the gods —
Humanity — shall blossom as a rose. In all
Bibles, all religions, this is plainly set forth —
but designing men have at first misinterpreted
and finally emasculated, materialized, besotted
them. It does not require a new revelation. Let
every man be a revelation unto himself. Let once
man’s immortal spirit take possession of the
temple of his body, drive out the moneychangers
and every unclean thing, and his own
divine humanity will redeem him, for when he is
thus at one with himself he will know the
‘builder of the Temple.’ ”

- Key to Theosophy