It teaches him to understand it and live it better than he did, and in many cases it gives back to him, on a higher and more intelligent level, the faith in it which he had previously all but lost.
Theosophy has its aspects as a science also; it is in very truth a science of life, a science of the soul.

It applies to everything the scientific method of oft-repeated, painstaking observation, and then tabulates the results and makes deductions from them.

In this way it has investigated the various planes of Nature, the conditions of man's consciousness during life and after what is commonly called death.

It cannot be too often repeated that its statements on all these matters are not vague guesses or tenets of faith, but are based upon direct and oft-repeated _observation_ of what happens.

Its investigators have dealt also to a certain extent with subjects more in the range of ordinary science, as may be seen by those who read the book on _Occult Chemistry_.
Thus we see that Theosophy combines within itself some of the characteristics of philosophy, religion and science.