168 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

a passing phase, to be gone through and faced
because only in solitude shall we learn of the
Self. Nothing can touch us from without for
we are the rulers of ourselves, God reigning
within us.

In sorrow Theosophy has brought to me the
balm of hope and taken away the cruel sense of
injustice ; in joy it has made me feel an extend-
ed joy in sharing it with you; in pain it has
pointed the finger to suffering humanity and
has made me feel ecstasy in the knowledge that
through my pain I am being moulded so that I
may one day be able to share the pain of others;

in weariness it has given me renewed life point-
ing out that weariness is of the body, the
Spirit can never tire. Above all, it gives me
that joy in the sense of belonging to God and
God belonging to me and in me, and I belonging
to all mankind, part of them and they part of
me, a true brotherhood, so close that nothing
can really permanently divide, and a Love that
is unspeakable overshadowing all.

I said that Theosophy was a Gospel of Love,
but when I come to this point my pen fails me.
A faint reflection, very faint, generally very
blurred, but the gem is to be discovered among
the ashes, as the pearl of great price, is the human
love that binds, that joins together, that vivifies