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for each screw is made to fit into a certain joint.
Nor does this take from the value of each in
any case, but it does do away with criticism and
intolerance, for criticism and intolerance cannot
exist the moment you acknowledge that each
has his place, his own work to do, and none
knows the exact work of the other nor the diffi-
culties of his place, whether this be in the great
matter of a religion or in the lesser matter of an
individual. Theosophy, therefore, I have said,
makes one feel so safe, everything in its place
according to law and the law in God's hands,
under His direction, maintained and upheld by
Him, unalterable.

It is the all-embracingness of Theosophy that
draws one to it, in fact, it is too big for most
of us; we would like to limit it, happily we
cannot, we, in oar littleness, cannot limit that
Wisdom which is from the Divine. It is so full
of commonsense, a doctrine of commonsense
we might say, simple in its presentation, pro-
found in its truth, so easy to understand and yet
so difficult to grasp in its vastness, so practical
in details and limitless in its far-reachingness.

The Divine Wisdom makes you know God, it
brings Him close, it shows you how far He must
extend, it points to Him within you and makes
you realise that He is in everything without