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LIGHT ON THE PATH
tion becomes permanent and indissoluble because founded on a vital likeness of Nature. To them he becomes pledged by such vows as need no utterance or frame-. work in ordinary words. This is one aspect of what I mean by a Brotherhood.
If the first rules are conquered, the disciple finds himself standing at the threshold. Then, if his will be suffici ently resolute his power of speech comes; a twofold power. For, as he advances now, he finds himself Entering into a state of blossoming, where every bud that opens throws out its several rays or petals. If he has to exercise his new gift, he must use it in its twofold character. He finds in himself the power to speak in the presence of the Masters; in other words, he' has the right to demand contact with the divinest element of that state of consciousness into which he has entered. But he finds himself compelled, by the nature of his position, to act in two ways at the
