long—they will gain control. The devils of the lower world will literally be turned loose upon the earth, and Europe will be overwhelmed in a horror of desolation.

This is the real reason for the increasing and unbearable pressure of modern life, with its restlessness and growing premonitions of some indefinable evil. Already this unspeakable evil has gone so far that it cannot now be averted. The psychic trickle has become a stream, and the dam is visibly breaking.

If any think that this is the view of an irresponsible alarmist, they will do well to recall the words of H. P. Blavatsky herself, written so long ago as 1889 in the May number of Lucifer. “If Theosophy prevails in the struggle, if its all-embracing philosophy strikes deep root into the minds and hearts of men, if its doctrines of Reincarnation and Karma, in other words, of Hope and Responsibility, find a home in the lives of the new generation, then indeed will dawn a day of joy and gladness for all who now suffer and are outcast. For real Theosophy is Altruism, and we cannot repeat it too often. It is brotherly love, mutual help, unswerving devotion to Truth.

But if not, then the storm will burst, and our boasted Western civilization and enlightenment will sink in such a sea of horror that its parallel, History has never yet recorded.”

That Message was rejected. The Society she nurtured has itself been split into warring and divided sections. In place of Brotherhood the nations have produced Bolshevism. Ignorant persons, by deliberately tampering with forces of which they know nothing, have invited and precipitated that horror which is soon to overwhelm them.

NEVERTHELESS, the writer has every reason to be convinced that efforts will be made from the higher

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