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74 LIGHT'ON THE PATH
"Ask and ye shall have," sounds like something too easy and simple to be credible. But the disciple cannot “ask" in the mystic sense in which the word is used in this scripture, until he has attained the power of helping others.
Why is this? Has the statement too dogmatic a sound ?
Is it too dogmatic to say that a nan must have foothold before he can spring? The position is the same. If help is given, if work is done, then there is an actual claim -not what we call a personal claim of pay. ment, but the claim of co-nature. The divine give; they demaitd that you also shall give before you can be of their kin.
This law is discovered as soon as the disciple endeavours to speak. For speech is a gist which only comes to the disciple of power and knowledge. The spiritualist enters the .psychic-astral world, but he does rot find there any certain speech, unless hie at once claims it and continues
