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LIGHT ON THE PATH 71 prevents this by its own inmuitable laws.
The four rules which I have written down for those in the West who wish to study them, are, as I have said, written in the ante-chamber of every living Brotherhood; I may add more, in the ante. chamber pf every living or dead Brotherhood, or Order yet to be formed. When I speak of a Brothethiood, or an Order, I do not mean an arbitrary constitution made by scholiasts and intellectualists; I mean an actual fact in super-nature; a stage of development to. wards the absolute God or Good. During this development the disciple encounters harmony, pure knowledge, pure truth, in different degrees, and, as he enters these degrees, he finds himself becoming part
of what might be roughly described as . a layer of human consciousness. He en.
counters his equals, men of his own self less character, and with them his associa
