Invisible Helpers

before the whole chain of evils that must necessarily follow in its wake. The Theosophical teaching—that a person can be specially helped only when their past actions have been such as to deserve this assistance, and that even then the help will be given through those who are relatively near their own level—is free from this serious objection. Furthermore, it brings back to us the older and far grander conception of an unbroken ladder of living beings extending down from the Logos In Theosophical terms, the Divine Word or the creative manifestation of the Supreme Being. Himself to the very dust beneath our feet.

In the East, the existence of invisible helpers has always been recognized, though the names given and the characteristics attributed to them naturally vary in different countries. Even in Europe, we have the old Greek stories of the constant interference of the gods in human affairs, and the Roman legend that Castor and Pollux led the legions of the infant republic in the Battle of Lake Regillus. Nor did such a conception die out when the classical period ended; these stories have their legitimate successors in medieval tales of saints who appeared at critical moments to turn the tide of battle in favor of the Christian hosts, or of guardian angels who sometimes stepped in to save a pious traveler from what would otherwise have been certain destruction.