TENTH TALK 203

not have your minds made up beforehand as to ex-
actly what the Great World Teacher Himself will do,
what He will say, and how He will carry Himself. It
is for Him to settle all that, not for us. Do not run
the risk of shutting yourself out from any real learn-
ing, from any advantage, by forming prejudices and
preconceptions beforehand. It is well that we should
be careful of this. I have seen so many people fail
through misunderstanding Madame Blavatsky or our
President, that I cannot but see that there is at least
a possibility that there may be those (good and earn-
est people too) who will misunderstand even the
great Lord of Love and Life when He shall come.
Let us recognise Him to the full and be ready to
follow Him, whether He does exactly what we expect
Him to do^ or whether in His wisdom He chooses to
do something quite, quite different.