one which is yet in the womb of the future. The Supreme Council presumably becomes one with the six other Great Councils in the open direction of that glorious age of Humanity which completes evolutionary history on this planet, when Man will “walk with God” once more.

The men and women of these Communities are in different stages of advancement, from the accepted aspirant to an Initiate of the Third Degree. They dwell in mountain valleys. There is no desire to preserve isolation, except from the unfit. They welcome recruits, if they are suitable. For the world requires wise men and women in abundance, not merely to meet the grave racial crisis which is certainly threatened, but to bring in their turn more erring sheep into the fold of true knowledge. These Communities are to be found in Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Possibly they are elsewhere. Europe possessed them at one time, but they withdrew early in the century owing to the anticipated troubles. Not that physical danger necessarily threatened them, but the psychic environment of a European centre would necessarily present certain difficulties. Sensitives know the effect of war in the battle areas of 1914-18!

Members of these Communities mix freely with the world when they are so disposed, but not, one must infer, with any personal satisfaction. British, Germans, and Americans are to be found in them. Probably all nationalities have provided men and women at one time or another. Eastern races are well represented, but I believe the negro is absent as racially too degenerate to furnish aspirants. I do not suppose for a moment that there is any colour line, which from an intellectual point of view, in the case of Asiatics and Chinese, would be unthinkable.