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Spiritualists and Theosophists might well join hands, for both are engaged in the same pursuit—the study of the Occult. It is probably ''not ''owing to the “Brothers” that the modern wave of spirit manifestations in the West, has been during the last thirty years passing over society; yet, on the other hand (who knows?) it ''may ''be owing to the providential influence of the Himalayan mystic brotherhood, inasmuch as it is rumoured that from the elevation, spiritual as well as physical, of their mountain fastnesses, they exercise over the world the powers, or providence of a kind of petty gods. It may be that the whole movement of modern Spiritualism is owing to the ruling influence of these occult ministers to humanity; but I prefer to ascribe it to a higher influence still, and believe that the “Brothers,” perceiving that the world, moved by the Divine Spirit, is already marching that way, they begin to go with the times, and are being won over to reveal some few of their secrets. I believe the period is approaching, and that mankind are taking the first initiatory steps thereto, when there will be no secrets, nothing hidden, except from those who choose to be ignorant. The power of ruling by spirit over Nature, will be possessed by all men as their birthright, and consciously exercised with beneficient motives. Spiritualism, still a sprawling infant, {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-136}}