A WORD TO THE WISE.

The founder of the Christian Religion stated an occult original: "occult" — here meaning hidden, esoteric, or relating to the inner mysteries of spiritual laws maxim when He said: “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein” (Mark 10:15). All occultists recognize the far-reaching importance of this teaching of Christ, and endeavor to “live” it day by day.

When a new philosophy is presented to the world, it is met in different ways by different people.

One person will grasp with greediness any new philosophical effort in an endeavor to ascertain how far it supports his own ideas. To such a person, the philosophy itself is of minor importance. Its prime value will be its vindication of HIS ideas. If the work comes up to expectation in that respect, he will enthusiastically adopt it and cling to it with a most unreasoning partisanship; if not, he will probably lay the book down in disgust and disappointment, feeling as if the author had done him an injury.

Another adopts an attitude of skepticism as soon as he discovers that it contains something which HE has not previously read, heard, or originated in his own thought. He would probably resent as extremely unjustified the accusation that his mental attitude is the height original: "acme" of self-satisfaction and intolerance; such is nevertheless the case; and thus he shuts his mind to any truth which may possibly be hidden in that which he off-hand rejects.

Both these classes stand in their own light. “Set” ideas render them impervious to rays of truth. “A little child”