human consciousness and our limited understanding, revelation and prophesy will sweep into the soul when we have fulfilled the law, and uplift our mind to a great endeavor.
The voice of the Infinite is calling us today, just as it has called to men of all races throughout all time, and as soon as the human mind looks up and seeks and asks, it finds. The answer is already written; waiting for that supreme crest in race consciousness when, like a mountain peak, the rising intelligence unites with its source.
In the everyday life, we must all pass between the world of sense and the world of revelation. The Novitiate and the Initiate are side by side, and each takes his place in, and works with, the power of his own kingdom, and through this reaches complete Illumination.
Whenever or wherever the soul awakens to a great thirst for higher wisdom, it overcomes the limitations of the finite laws and counts as naught the self culture which these higher possessions demand of it.
This, then, is the Short Cut, the pathway of the plus man, the new world of the Illuminati. It is filled with eternal possessions and any life, no matter where it may be in the lesser pathways or the broad, white ways of human ignorance, can find this straight and narrow path and build itself a way from the lowlands of human reality, into a new world of peace.
Crowned, then, with the joy of deeper conquest which we have won through unfaltering allegiance to the laws of the “Short Cut;” we
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