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LIGHT ON THE PATH
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interesting and less agreeable to cthers. The sight is an awful one, and people shirink from a very selfish person at last as from a beast of prey. How much more awful is it when it occurs on the more advanced plane of life, with the added powers of knowledge, and through the greater sweep of successive incarnations! . .
Therefore I say, pause and think well upon the threshold. For if the demand of the Neophyte is made without the complete purification, it will not penetrate the seclusion of the Divine Adept, but will evoke the terrible forces which attend upon the black side of our human nature.
