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LIGHT ON THE PATH 85 interfered with, Their work injured? And the Neophyte may meet an Adept in the flesh, may live in the same house with Him, and yet be unable to recognize Him, and unable to make his own voice heard by Him. For no, nearness in space, no closeness of relations, no daily intimacy, can do away with the inexorable laws which give the. Adept His seclusion. No voice penetratęs to His inner hearing till it has become a divine voice, a voice which gives no utterance to the cries of self. Any lesser appeal would he as use. less, as much a waste of energy and power, as for mere children who are learning their alphabet to be taught it by a professor of philology. Until a man has become, in heart and spirit, a disciple, he has no existence for those who are Teachers of disciples. And he becomes this by one method only--the surrender of his personal humanity."
For the voice to have lost the power to
