60 SKETCHES OF GEEAT TRUTHS

has reached a stage of loftier heights than I
have tried to sketch here. We hear of Divine
Teachers, Divine Kings and Rulers, and the
testimony of past civilisations and the ruins
remaining of their civilisations are so mighty
that we are bound to believe in Them.

The Occult Hierarchy which rules, teaches

-and guides the worlds is a great Order, each rank
having its own multifarious duties and carrying
them out in perfect harmony, working out a
portion of the plan of the Supreme Lord, the Logos
'of the system, in a service which " is perfect free-
dom ". Two leading departments of our section of
this Hierarchy are concerned, the one with the
ruling, the other with the teaching, of our worlds.

In the grade of Adepts alluded to above are
Those to whom the name of "Masters" more
peculiarly belongs, in that They accept as chelas or
disciples, those who have reached a point of
evolution fitting them to approach the Portal of
Initiation, and are resolutely striving to develop in
themselves the qualifications above described.

It is through Theosophy that we may learn

-and know more of these Elder Brothers
who are ever ready waiting for us to hold

-out a hand for their help or send a cry when
we claim Their assistance. We cry and

God saith . . . Whoso seeketh to approach Me
one span, I seek to approach one cubit; and whoso
seeketh to approach Me one cubit, I seek to
approach him two fathoms • a-n/i wi-^"^ ,^^n--xi-