Here in India
these criticisms have been indignantly resented by the passionate
loyalty to the Mahatmas that is so widely spread among Hindus--resented
more by instinct than reason in some cases perhaps, though in others, no
doubt, as a consequence of a full appreciation of all that is being now
explained, and of other considerations beside. But in Europe such
criticisms will have seemed hard to answer. The answer is really
embodied, however imperfectly, in the views of the situation now set
forth. We ordinary mortals in the world work as men traveling by the
light of a lantern in an unknown country. We see but a little way to the
right and left, only a little way behind even. But the adepts work as
men traveling by daylight, with the further advantage of being able at
will to get up in a balloon and survey vast expanses of lake and plain
and forest.
The choice of time and methods for communicating occult knowledge to the
world necessarily includes the choice of intermediary agent. Hence the
double set of misconceptions in India and Europe, each adapted to the
land of its origin.
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