“The group of philosophers of more modern date is powerfully moulding thought, while the ancient schools of Asiatic philosophers are just beginning to influence western ideas. Through analysis, correlation and synthesis, the thought power of man is developed and the abstract mind can be unified with the concrete. Through their work therefore that sensitive apparatus of man, with its three outstanding characteristics of instinct, intellect and intuition, is brought to a condition of intelligent coordination.

“Instinct relates man to the animal world; while the intuition reveals to him the world of spiritual values. These three are the subject matter of philosophical investigation, for the theme of the philosophers is the nature of reality and the means of knowledge.

“The two most modern groups are the psychologists who work under the Delphic injunction: ‘Man, know thyself;’ and the financiers who are custodians of the means whereby man can live upon the physical plane. These two groups necessarily, and in spite of their apparent divergences and differences, are more synthetic in their fundamental aspects than any of the others. One group concerns itself with mankind, with the varying types of humanity, the mechanism employed, and a man’s urges and characteristics, and with the purpose—apparent or hidden—of his being. The other group controls and orders the means whereby he exists, controlling all that can be converted into energy, and constituting a dictatorship over all modes of intercourse, commerce and exchange.

“These means control the multiplicity of form-objects which modern man regards as essential to his mode of life. Money, is only crystallized energy, or vitality, what the oriental student calls ‘pranic’ energy. It is vital energy externalized, and this form of energy is under the direction of the financial group. They are the latest group in point of date, and their work (it should be borne in mind) is most definitely planned and guided. They are bringing about effects upon the earth which are most far-reaching.

“The names of individuals in any group are many, and of no importance relatively. It is the group and its interrelated work that counts.”