But it has, it ought to have, no authority outside the Mystic himself.  It may persuade, it may win, it may inspire, but it may not claim obedience as of right.  For the Voice of the God within only becomes authoritative for another when the God within that other self answers the Mystic’s appeal, and he recognises an ideal that he could not have formulated, unaided, for himself.  The Mystic may shine as a Light, but a man must see with his own eyes, and there lies the world’s safety; the materialised Mystic, strong as he is, cannot, by virtue of the God within him, enslave his fellow-men.

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THE VASANTA PRESS, ADYAR, MADRAS