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receive from outside us a new impulse of force, a power, not our own, impelling us to listen and to obey.
Many of such helpful karmic links have we seen within the.Theosophical Society. Long, long ago, He who is now the Master K. H. was taken prisoner in a battle with an Egyptian army, and was generously befriended and sheltered by an Egyptian of high rank. Thousands of years later, help is needed for the nascent Theosophical Society, and the Master, looking over India for one to aid in the great work, sees His old friend of the Egyptian and other lives, now Mr. A. P. Sinnett, editing the leading Anglo-Indian newspaper, The Pioneer. Mr. Sinnett goes, as usual, to Simla Mme. Blavatsky goes up thither, to form the link: Mr. Sinnett is drawn within the immediate influence of the Master, receives instruction from Him, becomes the author of The Occult World and of Esoteric Buddhism, carrying to
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