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* Needless to remind an English F.T.S. that what is said here, applies
only to secrets the nature of which when revealed will not be turned
into a weapon against humanity in general, or its units—­men.   Secrets
of such class could not be given to any one but a regular chela of many
years’ standing and during his successive initiations;  mankind as a
whole has first to come of age, to reach its majority, which will happen
but toward the beginning of its sixth race—­before such mysteries can be
safely revealed to it.   The vril is not altogether a fiction, as some
chelas and even “lay” chelas know.
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It is simply that the gradual development of man’s seven principles and physical senses has to be coincident and on parallel lines with Rounds and Root-races.  Our fifth race has so far developed but its five senses.  Now, if the Kama or Will-principle of the “Fourth-rounders” has already reached that stage of its evolution when the automatic acts, the unmotivated instincts and impulses of its childhood and youth, instead of following external stimuli, will have become acts of will framed constantly in conjunction with the mind (Manas), thus making of every man on earth of that race a free agent, a fully responsible being—­the Kama of our hardly adult fifth race is only slowly approaching it.  As to the sixth sense of this, our race, it has hardly sprouted above the soil of its materiality.  It is highly unreasonable, therefore, to expect for the men of the fifth to sense the nature and essence of that which will be fully sensed and perceived but by the sixth—­let alone the seventh race—­i.e., to enjoy the legitimate outgrowth of the evolution and endowments of the future races with only the help of our present limited senses.  The exceptions to this quasi-universal rule have been hitherto found only in some rare cases of constitutional, abnormally precocious individual evolutions; or, in such, where by early training and special methods, reaching the stage of the fifth rounders, some men in addition to the natural gift of the latter have fully developed (by certain occult methods) their sixth, and in still rarer cases their seventh, sense.  As an instance of the former class may be cited the Seeress of Prevorst; a creature born out of time, a rare precocious growth, ill adapted to the uncongenial atmosphere that surrounded her, hence a martyr ever ailing and sickly.  As an example of the other, the Count St. Germain may be mentioned.  Apace with the anthropological and physiological development of man runs his spiritual evolution.  To the latter, purely intellectual growth is often more an impediment than a help.  An instance:  radiant stuff—­“the fourth state of matter”—­has been hardly discovered, and no one—­the eminent discoverer himself not excepted—­has yet any idea of its full importance, its possibilities, its connection with physical phenomena, or even its bearing upon the most puzzling scientific problems.  How then can any “Adept” attempt to prove the fallacy of much that is predicated in the nebular and solar theories when the only means by which he could successfully prove his position is an appeal to, and the exhibition of, that sixth sense—­ consciousness which the physicist cannot postulate?  Is not this plain?