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LIGHT ON THE PATH
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same time. He cannot send his voire up to the heights where sit the gods, till he has penetrated to the deep places where their light shines not at all. He has come within the grip of an iron law. If he demands to become a neophyte, he at once becomes a servant. Yet, his service is sublime, if only from the character of those who share it. For the Masters are also servants; they serve, and claim their reward afterwards. Part of their service is to let their knowledge touch him; his first act of service is to give some of that knowledge to 'those who are not yet, fit .to. stand where he stands. This is no arbitrary decision, made by any Master or Teacher or any such person, however divine. , It is a law of that life which the disciple has entered upon.
Therefore was it written in the inner doorway of the Lodge, of®the old Egyptian Brotherhood, " The labourer is worthy of his hire."
