u know--there is nothing arbitrary
in the cube of life, as I have called it. It is built up of necessary
experiences and necessary consequences. But it is built up by Love and
Wisdom, the two Elements of the Divine Nature, in which we live and move
and have our being. H. D.

VI

The next selection that I shall give from my automatic script comes from
an entirely different personality, which can be sufficiently indicated
by the initials E. G.

E. G.--Worship is a necessary part of each soul's training, and we can
only worship that which we feel to be above and beyond ourselves. As we
grow older and become more developed in spiritual consciousness, so do
we tend more and more to worship the inner and intangible, rather than
the outer and manifest. So whilst the instinct of worship is always the
same, the objects and methods must continually change with our own
advancing realisation and unfolding consciousness.

Those limitations which once made for reverence are in time found to be
cramping and to lead to superstition.

It is the same with the education of either children or of childish
nations.

In both cases a _display_ of power is necessary to command obedience,
because the childish mind can only apprehend from the outer, and realise
the existence of that which it sees physically demonstrated. Tell a
child of tender years that to be naughty is to be unhappy, and in
ninety-nine cases out of one hundred he will neither understand nor
believe you. But take away his toys or his sweets or put him in a
corner; make him, in fact, _physically_ aware of the truth that to be
naughty is to bring unpleasant consequences upon himself, and you have
taken the only argument which he is capable of realising at a certain
point of consciousness.

This is why certain nations, at the child point of development, _must_
be treated as children. They don't realise the appeal to the spiritual,
and will only misconceive you and your motives, and read cowardice in
your attempt to treat from a standpoint they have not reached.

It is the same with certain religions, and this is the cause of much
failure in mission work.

Theosophy and Roman Catholicism appeal strongly to comparatively
immature minds.

Those who care more for form than for essence are always in the immature
stage.

They love big words and mysterious sayings and doings. To have something
apart from others--whether it be happiness or knowledge--i