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  | notes = The clippings on this leaf come from different issues of Light. A dark wavy line crosses part of the last line of Arundale’s long paragraph. The writer has not been identified.<!-- HANDWRITING-ATTRIBUTION-RECHECK -->
  | notes = The clippings on this leaf come from different issues of Light. A dark wavy line crosses part of the last line of Arundale’s long paragraph. The writer has not been identified.<!-- HANDWRITING-ATTRIBUTION-RECHECK --> The underlying newspaper masthead is dated September 16, 1882; the overlaid first cutting is from September 9, 1882.
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{{Style P-Align center|1=LIGHT.<br>September 16, 1882.}}
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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Strange Power of an Oriental.|14-29}}
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{{Style P-Title|“THE PERFECT WAY.”}}
{{Style P-Title|“THE PERFECT WAY.”}}


<center>''To the Editor of'' “{{Style S-Small capitals|Light.}}”</center>
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir,}}—With reference to the letter from the Countess of Caithness in “Light,” August 19th, having so great a regard for the authoress she names, and for herself, I cannot trust myself to make any comment on that letter, further than to say, that it is to me a cause of continual wonder and distress that so many Spiritualistic and philosophic minds fail to find in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, the most perfect Theosophy which the human mind can conceive, and the most perfect nourishment for all those souls who hunger and thirst after righteousness—the teachings of “The (most) Perfect Way” to purity, unselfishness, love, truth, light, and Spiritual knowledge.
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir,}}—With reference to the letter from the Countess of Caithness in “Light,” August 19th, having so great a regard for the authoress she names, and for herself, I cannot trust myself to make any comment on that letter, further than to say, that it is to me a cause of continual wonder and distress that so many Spiritualistic and philosophic minds fail to find in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, the most perfect Theosophy which the human mind can conceive, and the most perfect nourishment for all those souls who hunger and thirst after righteousness—the teachings of “The (most) Perfect Way” to purity, unselfishness, love, truth, light, and Spiritual knowledge.
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{{Style P-Signature custom|{{Style S-Small capitals|George Wyld,}} M.D. {{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|1=FTS<ref name="editor-fts-notes">Handwritten initials appear beside the signatures of George Wyld and F. Arundale and beside Eugene Nus’s byline. The writer has not been identified.<!-- HANDWRITING-ATTRIBUTION-RECHECK --></ref>}}|1 style=plain|align=right}}
{{Style P-Signature custom|{{Style S-Small capitals|George Wyld,}} M.D. {{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|1=FTS<ref name="editor-fts-notes">Handwritten initials appear beside the signatures of George Wyld and F. Arundale and beside Eugene Nus’s byline. The writer has not been identified.<!-- HANDWRITING-ATTRIBUTION-RECHECK --></ref>}}|1 style=plain|align=right}}


{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Dr. Wyld,}}—When Lady Caithness says that “thousands are literally starving for want of Spiritual food adequate to their present Spiritual growth,”<nowiki>*</nowiki> I think we shall all agree with her, and with her rejoice, whenever this want is met by nourishing supplies; but as to the giving of a ''new'' Gospel—is it likely that a new one should be sent by God while the first is so much slighted, and the blessings promised by its bringer are so generally forfeited from neglect of conditions indispensable to their acceptance? The Lord Jesus Christ—whom, if we believe his assertions at all, we know to be the Truth as well as the Life—assured us of rest for our souls under the easy yoke of His meekness and lowliness of heart, of never again thirsting spiritually if we drink of the “Water of Life” that He offers. Have the hungry Spirits of our day attained that rest or quenched their souls’ thirst? Have they found the peace which He bequeathed to all who deny themselves, taking up their cross daily, and following Him? And, if not, what good shall any interpretation of the mysteries of God do them until these offers are accepted, the painful mysteries of our own nature illumined, and its anguishing unrest appeased?
{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Dr. Wyld,}}—When Lady Caithness says that “thousands are literally starving for want of Spiritual food adequate to their present Spiritual growth,”* I think we shall all agree with her, and with her rejoice, whenever this want is met by nourishing supplies; but as to the giving of a ''new'' Gospel—is it likely that a new one should be sent by God while the first is so much slighted, and the blessings promised by its bringer are so generally forfeited from neglect of conditions indispensable to their acceptance? The Lord Jesus Christ—whom, if we believe his assertions at all, we know to be the Truth as well as the Life—assured us of rest for our souls under the easy yoke of His meekness and lowliness of heart, of never again thirsting spiritually if we drink of the “Water of Life” that He offers. Have the hungry Spirits of our day attained that rest or quenched their souls’ thirst? Have they found the peace which He bequeathed to all who deny themselves, taking up their cross daily, and following Him? And, if not, what good shall any interpretation of the mysteries of God do them until these offers are accepted, the painful mysteries of our own nature illumined, and its anguishing unrest appeased?


The promise of our Lord that His Spirit would guide into all truth is most precious to me, but no child is advanced to a higher class while elementary lessons are unlearned; and I dare not hope for more abundant revelations from on high until those already vouchsafed have been honoured by ''practical'' acceptance. When “lip-labouring Christendom” seems still so very far from peace or lowliness of spirit, and I find “''the angel of knowledge''” welcomed as the herald of a new Gospel, I ask myself with surprise, Can two Gospels differ so widely if they come from the same source?—Yours sincerely,
The promise of our Lord that His Spirit would guide into all truth is most precious to me, but no child is advanced to a higher class while elementary lessons are unlearned; and I dare not hope for more abundant revelations from on high until those already vouchsafed have been honoured by ''practical'' acceptance. When “lip-labouring Christendom” seems still so very far from peace or lowliness of spirit, and I find “''the angel of knowledge''” welcomed as the herald of a new Gospel, I ask myself with surprise, Can two Gospels differ so widely if they come from the same source?—Yours sincerely,
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{{Style P-Title|“THE PERFECT WAY.”}}
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<center>''To the Editor of'' “{{Style S-Small capitals|Light.}}”</center>
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir,}}—In reference to a letter by Mrs. Penny in your issue of September 9th I should like to make a few remarks.
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir,}}—In reference to a letter by Mrs. Penny in your issue of September 9th I should like to make a few remarks.
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{{Style P-Title|THOUGHTS ON NECESSITY AND FREEDOM<br>OF WILL.}}
{{Style P-Title|THOUGHTS ON NECESSITY AND FREEDOM<br>OF WILL.}}


<center>'''By Eugene Nus.''' {{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|1=FT.S.<ref name="editor-fts-notes" />}}</center>
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<center>''Translated from the “Bulletin de la Société Scientifique d’Etudes Psychologiques” by Dr. Dixon.''</center>
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Is there anyone who does not feel satisfaction after doing what he thinks good, and dissatisfaction when he has done what he thinks evil? False ideas of duty and right may be nourished, but no one is without some notion of what is good, which he ought to do, and of what is evil, which he ought not to do. Such notion is from conscience. Conscience is proof of moral freedom. The impression which a thing done leaves on the mind shews that Will presided over the doing of it. If our actions were not under our mastery they would leave behind neither satisfaction nor dissatisfaction. They leave an impression stamped in the mind more or less deeply in proportion to our freedom. The moment we begin to judge ourselves we ourselves bring the evidence that in the action judged we had freedom of will. Error itself implies this freedom. The merely instinctive being hesitates not: his course is fixed.
Is there anyone who does not feel satisfaction after doing what he thinks good, and dissatisfaction when he has done what he thinks evil? False ideas of duty and right may be nourished, but no one is without some notion of what is good, which he ought to do, and of what is evil, which he ought not to do. Such notion is from conscience. Conscience is proof of moral freedom. The impression which a thing done leaves on the mind shews that Will presided over the doing of it. If our actions were not under our mastery they would leave behind neither satisfaction nor dissatisfaction. They leave an impression stamped in the mind more or less deeply in proportion to our freedom. The moment we begin to judge ourselves we ourselves bring the evidence that in the action judged we had freedom of will. Error itself implies this freedom. The merely instinctive being hesitates not: his course is fixed.
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