of any
spiritual limitation, and therefore he is happy in his work, and the
martyrdom I spoke of is _unconscious_. When it becomes conscious, with
him it will mean that his present plane of work is finished, and that he
will be removed to another "_Form_" so soon as he is prepared to teach
there.

He is essentially a teacher, and a valuable one, for those who have not
soared beyond his present perceptions. It is all so much more simple and
reasonable than you suppose. It is these crusted old creeds that have
misrepresented actual conditions, and yet they also have been, as
Imperator; doing their own work amongst the people to whom they have
acted as necessary stepping-stones.

That is enough for to-day; take a rest now. H. D.

V

The following conversation between Mr Denton and myself (the last of the
series which I propose to give) took place, I see, at Buxton, 4th
September 1906.

There had been some correspondence in _The Daily Telegraph_ about Time
as a fourth Dimension, and I asked my friend if he could say anything to
me on the subject. His reply was as follows:--

Time is really a form of perception, _not a thing in itself_--do you
understand?

Your limitation of perception you call _Time_.

Another limitation is called _Distance_.

This also is an illusion, or a limitation, whichever you choose to call
it.

_The White Ray is the Absolute._ The spectroscope gives you the
limitation which makes the colours perceptible to your human eyes. For
the one who is free from these limitations, all colours exist and are
present in consciousness at the same moment. But they must be split up
and observed severally to enter into the earth consciousness. It is
exactly the parallel of Time.

_Events in Time coincide with the colours in the Ray._ All exist
simultaneously for the one who is free from limitations. All must be
brought into sequence for the one who is bound by limitations.

This is really the key to so many puzzles, and accounts for so many
occult phenomena.

As we transcend the normal earth limits ever so little, so do we develop
these abnormal powers, as they are called. But here, as everywhere, the
reality is just the converse of the apparent.

The true norm is the Perfect Ray--the Ceaseless Sound--the Perfect
Vision; and the abnormal is the limitation upon the earth, or upon any
succeeding plane, short of the Absolute. But naturally we consider that
normal which happens to