Always it is necessary to have high ideals, and ever the human mind leaps forward to some appointed goal. If I here outline what may seem a visionary impossibility it is but that I seek to hold up such an ideal, and to give to the race an objective well worth their highest endeavor. The value of meditation is becoming everywhere admitted. Schools for concentration and methods of mental development are commonly advertised in the daily papers. True meditation is as yet little understood.
Concentration is but the foundation upon which the future work is to be based.
The absence of a Master in personal presence, able and equipped to teach the true scientific development which is the aim of true meditation. The troubled condition of the world at present is sufficient barrier to any general acceptation of training, and of the scientific development of the vehicles. These premises are laid down here as a starting point. That some individuals here and there achieve the goal, that some people do master the system of Occult Meditation and make the desired progress is undeniable, but they are only few in number and those numbers are inappreciable when set against the vast bulk of human beings in incarnation at the same time. They achieve by right of agelong effort, and because in previous lives they trod the Path or neared the portal of initiation.