There are certain members of the Lodges who pass from centre to centre, keeping the lines of connection between them unbroken. But they are always connected in other ways. They have a common life and power. As they rise in spirituality, they rise above difference of race, to our common humanity. The series is unbroken.
Adepts are a necessity in nature and in super-nature.
The continuity is unbroken. But they keep alive the spiritual life of mankind. That is difficult for you to understand. One of their number comes forth to teach the masses, and is handed down to tradition as the founder of a religion. Once I was in a great cave-temple in the Himalayan mountains, with my Master.