132 SKETCHES OF OREAT TEUTHS

and by whom it can be returned. Therefore He put
forth of Himself into matter, and He limited His
glory, in order that through this natural and slow
process of evolution we might come into being; and
we in turn according to His will are to develop
until we reach even His own level, and then the
very love of God itself will become more perfect,
because it will then be lavished on those. His own
children, who will fully understand and return it,
and so His great scheme will be realised and His
Will be done.

Theosophy, ever the Gospel of hope, points
out to us the hope, the possibilities, open to all,
and in theorising on these two sets of people it
is plainly to be seen that behind these two sets
is the inevitable law of reincarnation, and it is
only a matter of experience by many lives and a
determined struggle that will help the one set of
people to realise that "which they do not see
to-day. As the child knows no responsibility at
a very tender age, so is it with the young souls.
Responsibility comes with age and experience,
and as Theosophists, we count age by life's
experience, and not by years in the physical
world. "We all learn, some of us know why, and
some have not that knowledge, and in that lies
all the difference. The moment the boy at
school wakens up to the fact that knowledge is
desirable, that he wants to attain, that he wishes
to learn and to know, his study can no longer be
a burden, no longer a trial, his attitude is changed,