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80 LIGHT ON THE PATH where the advance of “civilization is unfelt and the nineteenth-century. fever is kept at bay. In these favoured places there is always time, always opportunity, for the realities of life; they are not crowded out by the doings of an inchoate, noney - loving, pleasure - seeking society. While there are Adepts upon the carth, the carth must preserve to Themy places of seclusion. This is a fact in Nature which is only an external expression of a profound fact in supernature.
The demand of the Neophyte remains unheard until the voice in which it is uttered has lost the power to wound. This is because the divine-astral life is a place in which order reigns, just as it does in natural life. There is, of course, always the centre and the circumference as there is in. Nature. Close to the cen. tral heart of life, on any plane, there is knowledge; there order reigns completely
