TWENTY-EIGHTH TALK         5C3
my work. I was pr^cnt when the tcachixl^ was
given; quite a number of the statements impressed
themselves ve?y strongly upon me, and I repeated
them with the idea of sharing them with our
brothers, naturally enough, not knowing then that
they were to be published as a book.  When
people get a little twist they distort everything.
Then again in describing the work of Alcyonc for
his Master, I remember explaining to the people that
there were two stages in his development; there was
a time, at first, when he could not remember clearly
what was said to him and I had to repeat it over again
to him in his physical body in the morning. There
again people thought that this book belonged to tliat
stage. It did •not in the least; it belonged to the
later stage, when he was able to remember and write
down for himself; but people attribute things to
whatever will fit inw^th their preconceived ideas, and
so often are exceedingly unjust.
I have suffered from all sorts of injustice and mis-
conception; I do hot mindT in the least, but it (;ivcs
me a very definite idea as to how easy it is for people
to misunderstand when they start with a wrong idea.
I have seen some really ludicrous mistaken about
some quite ordinary idea and even' cirnmihtance
that occurred was fitted in to bolster up that idea,
the whole thing being simply imagination from begin-
ning to end. After one has seen that happen hu> or
three times, one begins to be a little careful.