natures; teaching what is the soul, its life and its home, its relation to the human mind, and the necessary control of the personality the soul must obtain, through the mind, before the soul can accomplish what it came into physical embodiment to do.

Most of those who have accompanied us now realize that the outer man—the personality—is nothing but an instrument which the soul, under the direction of the Higher Self, is training and preparing to that end; and therefore it is not strange that many of such are becoming more or less conscious of the inner man, the soul, and are being given glimpses of the inner life, the life of the soul.

And so we strongly feel that the time is come when much of the mystery that previously surrounded this inner life, due principally to ignorance of the definite part this inner life plays in man’s spiritual growth, be entirely cleared away. And that is why we are making this so prominent a phase of our work.

The so-called “occultist” in the past has had much to do with creating so much mystery about this inner life; Occult means “covered from sight, concealed, hidden;” and an occultist in its true sense would be one who studies and acquaints himself in a practical and useful way with the hidden or invisible side of life. So that everyone who is studying this magazine is really an occultist.

But so much stigma has attached to the word “occult,” because of its being applied to teachings and practices of a questionable character which are not serving and enlightening mankind, but are instead making the information gained serve selfish ends by giving it out in a perverted or veiled form, that many sincere students are repelled by anything bearing the name “occult.”

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