we possess are not supernatural, they are latent in every human being, and will be evolved as the race progresses.  All that we have done is to evolve them more rapidly than our neighbours, by a procedure as open to you as it was to us.  Matter is everywhere, but it exists in seven modifications of which you only know four, and until lately only knew three; in those higher forms reside the causes of which you see the effects in the lower, and to know these causes you must develop the capacity to take cognisance of the higher planes.’”

Then followed a brief outline of the cycle of evolution, and I went on:  “What part does man play in this vast drama of a universe?  Needless to say, he is not the only living form in a Cosmos, which for the most part is uninhabitable by him.  As Science has shown living forms everywhere on the material plane, races in each drop of water, life throbbing in every leaf and blade, so the ‘Secret Doctrine’ points to living forms on higher planes of existence, each suited to its environment, till all space thrills with life, and nowhere is there death, but only change.  Amid these myriads are some evolving towards humanity, some evolving away from humanity as we know it, divesting themselves of its grosser parts.  For man is regarded as a sevenfold being, four of these parts belonging to the animal body, and perishing at, or soon after, death; while three form his higher self, his true individuality, and these persist and are immortal.  These form the Ego, and it is this which passes through many incarnations, learning life’s lesson as it goes, working out its own redemption within the limits of an inexorable law, sowing seeds of which it ever reaps the harvest, building its own fate with tireless fingers, and finding nowhere in the measureless time and space around it any that can lift for it one weight it has created, one burden it has gathered, unravel for it one tangle it has twisted, close for it one gulf it has digged.”

Then after noting the approaches of Western Science to Eastern, came the final words:  “it is of curious interest to note how some of the latest theories seem to catch glimpses of the occult Doctrines, as though Science were standing on the very threshold of knowledge which shall make all her past seem small.  Already her hand is trembling towards the grasp of forces beside which all those now at her command are insignificant.  How soon will her grip fasten on them?  Let us hope not until social order has been transformed, lest they should only give more to those who have, and leave the wretched still wretcheder by force of contrast.  Knowledge used by selfishness widens the gulf that divides man from man and race from race, and we may well shrink from the idea of new powers in Nature being yoked to the car of Greed.  Hence the wisdom of those ‘Masters,’ in whose name Madame Blavatsky speaks, has ever denied the knowledge which is power until Love’s lesson has been learned, and has given only into the hands of the selfless the control of those natural forces which, misused, would wreck society.”