' Adept understanding Adept '...

All speculation upon the motives and the methods of the illuminate will avail little.

The light by which he works is denied to ordinary men.

We should not try to bind him down to qualities which fit only those who grope in the dark or move in twilight.

We should trust where we cannot see and wait patiently for the day of revealment, when we will find all made clear and all riddles solved to our satisfaction.

It is an old truism in the East that it takes an adept to understand an adept, but the West will have to learn this truth by bitter experience with pseudo-adepts.



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