r, for the sooner will suffering cease.

There should be a word of warning about the folly of trying to reach
spiritual illumination by artificial methods. Astral sight is
sometimes quickly developed by crystal gazing and also by a certain
regulation of the breathing. For two reasons such methods should be
avoided. One is that any powers thus gained can not be permanent, and
the other is that they may be more or less dangerous. Many people have
made physical wrecks of themselves or have become insane by some of
these methods.

There are those who advertise to quickly teach clairvoyance, for a
consideration, as though spiritual powers could really be conferred
instead of evolved! It is true that efforts toward the evolution of
such powers may be enormously aided by teachers, but such instruction
can not be bought, and the offer to furnish it for money is the best
evidence of its worthlessness. Those who teach this ancient wisdom
select their own pupils from the morally fit, and tuition can be paid
only in devotion to truth and service to humanity. That is the only
road that leads to instruction worth having, and until the aspirant is
firmly upon that sound moral ground he is much better off without
powers, the selfish use of which would lead to certain disaster.

But how shall the pupil find the teacher? He need not find him, at
first, so far as the limited consciousness is concerned. Long before
he knows anything of it in his waking hours he may be receiving
instruction while he is out of the physical body during the hours of
sleep. The teacher finds the pupil long before the pupil suspects that
the teacher exists; and since it is the pupil who has the limited
consciousness it is quite natural that it should be so. Thus it is
inevitable that all who enter upon the way that leads to spiritual
illumination must long remain ignorant of the fact that any teachers
are interested in them or that anybody is giving the slightest
attention to them. Naturally enough one cannot know until the moment
arrives when his brain has become sufficiently sensitive to retain a
memory of at least a fragment of his superphysical experiences.

But what leads to the selection of the pupil? His earnestness, his
unselfishness, his devotion, his spiritual aspirations. There is an
old occult maxim to the effect that when the pupil is ready the Master
is waiting. They have need of many more than are ready to be taught.
Those who lead and enlight