“Lodges,” but is recorded in black and white, and may be and actually has been inspected by those who can obtain access to the archives! For the great movements, social, intellectual, or political, which accompany world changes are considered and precipitated, not in the luxurious salons of an internationally jealous conference or amidst the elegant surroundings of offices of state, but in an atmosphere of Wisdom and Foresight where there are no veils over the future and no vested interests weigh against the ultimate benefits to the evolutionary plan.

The spread of Theosophy and Spiritualism has, so it is hinted, already modified to some extent the sweeping character of the approaching changes, but unfortunately spiritual aspiration too often falls to the enthralling pursuit of material comfort and the overwhelming desire for power or possessions.

AND NOW a word regarding the degrees of Initiation to which we have alluded and about which little information is available to the layman. These must, of course, not be mixed up with that charitable and useful institution known as Free Masonry. The latter is but a shadow of Ancient Wisdom, and though familiar once with the lesser mysteries, retains in its empty solemnities nothing unknown to Science or unavailable to ordinary research.

Initiates of the First and Second Degrees of Occult Science are dwellers in human society. There need be no abandonment of profession. To be father of a family need be no insuperable obstacle, although the final period of training for the First Ordeal and all subsequent life demands physical and moral strength, abstention from alcohol in any form, certain rules as to diet and exercise,