Nor be deluded by the supposititious delight of recalling the incidents of past incarnations. Self-deception is only too easy. The faculty can certainly be acquired, but we must walk before we can run. Can we accurately recall all the events of yesterday? Can we recollect all the vicissitudes of childhood? Can we register our experiences during the trance called sleep? Yet these are easy by comparison. Some few have a vague memory, an apprehension of terror of some thing, some place, or some person, which may be the echo of a great emotional stress in a past life; but these things are not under control, and details are lacking.

The way of attainment of Knowledge and all that it implies is perfectly clear. The Communities exist. They are not inaccessible to determined people of the kind they want; but it must be remembered that no man or woman can conceal their true character from an “Adept.” They may not be the only way to Occult Training, but they are the best, and in a sense the easiest. They represent the nuclei of Human Society as it will be in the yet distant future. They are what the late Mr. A. P. Sinnett referred to, wittingly or unwittingly, as the “Fifth Rounders.”

This article was originally published in THE OCCULT REVIEW of London, in December, 1933, but applies so closely to conditions today that we are glad to reprint it for the benefit of our readers. —THE EDITOR.