anger of the ignorant. In all criticism it is an understood thing
that the subject to be criticised must be UNDER the critic, never
above,--that is to say, never above the critic's ability to
comprehend; therefore, as it is impossible that an outsider should
enter at once into a clear understanding of the mystic Spiritual-
Nature world around him, it follows that the teachings and tenets of
that Spiritual-Nature world must be more or less a closed book to
such an one,--a book, moreover, which he seldom cares or dares to
try and open.

In this way and for this reason the Eastern philosophers and sages
concealed much of their most profound knowledge from the multitude,
because they rightly recognised the limitations of narrow minds and
prejudiced opinions. What the fool cannot learn he laughs at,
thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent
idiocy. And so it has happened that many of the greatest discoveries
of science, though fully known and realised in the past by the
initiated few, were never disclosed to the many until recent years,
when 'wireless telegraphy' and 'light-rays' are accepted facts,
though these very things were familiar to the Egyptian priests and
to that particular sect known as the 'Hermetic Brethren,' many of
whom used the 'violet ray' for chemical and other purposes ages
before the coming of Christ. Wireless telegraphy was also an
ordinary method of communication between them, and they had their
'stations' for it in high towers on certain points of land as we
have now. But if they had made their scientific attainments known to
the multitude of their day they would have been judged as impostors
or madmen. In the time of Galileo men would not believe that the
earth moved round the sun,--and if anyone had then declared that
messages could be sent from one ship to another in mid-ocean without