ne! It was not possible for
Him to do otherwise than hide His face, as it were, whilst you were
barring His only door of access--_i.e. your true point of realisation_.

It all seems so clear to me now. And this is how He comes to so many in
different guises.

He is the Perfected Manifestation of GOD, as the Divine Man--the Flower
of Humanity.

But He can come into the heart in the narrowest creed, so long as the
holder of that creed is at _his true point of growth_ and not trying to
stifle God's gift of ever-advancing truth by cowardly want of trust, or
fear of being worse off in the end, by being absolutely honest to
himself and his own convictions in the present.

It has been a long message, and you have taken much of it awkwardly, but
on the whole it represents what I wanted to say. H. D.

III

H. D.--I feel now that you want to know what I meant by telling Miss R.
it was the _likeness_ to the old world which puzzled me here.

You see, we have all imbibed traditional ideas with our mother's milk,
however much our intellects may have modified them. Instinct is stronger
than intellect, because it is more elemental.

The first thing that struck me was that truths which are latent on
earth are made manifest here.

(Here comes an interpolation.)

You can take my words so easily that we must guard against wasting time
in mere verbosity. I must teach you to condense more. We must strike
some sort of balance between my brevity and your amplification. At
present it is as well to get the instrument into proper working order
before worrying too much over these details.

(He then resumed.)

It is as if you turned the old earth garment inside out, and saw the
very fabric of it, which the earth looms have hitherto concealed by the
warp and woof of the manufactured article.

For instance, you are told on earth that you are making your own future
conditions by right or wrong thinking. _Here_ you see the absolute,
_material_ results of right and wrong thinking, just as if you were
looking at two different patterns, woven by two different workers. I
said material results, because matter here is just as real as it was on
earth, and just as illusory, in one sense, in both spheres. Your matter
is unreal to us. Our matter is unreal to you. The truth is, both are
shadows cast by an antecedent reality on the Screens of the Universe.

The screens are the school-houses through which humanity learns its
less