Another reason is that otherwise worthy students who have gained a certain amount of knowledge of the inner life and its laws and the accompanying power such knowledge gives, and who pride themselves on being “occultists,” look down upon other students, those of the loving and devotional type, and particularly those who are declared followers of Christ’s teachings, deeming such as still on the emotional plan and not yet progressed to the stage the occultist has reached, where mind is supreme.

We will not enlarge upon this peculiarity of “occultists,” for those who read probably have had personal experience with such. But we would caution those who are convinced by an inner knowing of Spiritual realities and who perhaps repudiate the claims of such occultists, believing them to be not of Christ, not to let pride enter and affect them in any way. For all the knowledge and power that the occultist has gained through intellectual study and proven logic must later be gained—if not in this lifetime, in a succeeding one—by those who have found God and Christ within themselves, but have not had thorough intellectual training and discipline, so that the Master within may use such knowledge and power for the purpose for which alone they are given; while the occultist must “come back” with all his intellectual knowledge and power and devote it solely to the use of the Loving One within, if and when he awakens to His Presence and consciously waits upon Him there.

And hearken! Both of these stages are of equal importance—neither is higher than the other; for both will be superceded by a stage that will succeed them—when they are both given over wholly to the Master’s use.

We mean just that; for not until all knowledge, all power, all consciousness of self and separation is merged