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Our Relation to the Sacred Tribe
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could do it; you have said what I have been trying to say but could not express satisfactorily."

A little tact and a little explanation are needed to induce even a Philosopher to understand why his secretary or follower wants the relief of being counter-magnetized by his bitterest opponent. But the result being that one is better able to help each philosopher, it is to be hoped that learned men will, before long, grow accustomed to the idea; and gradually induce parents and teachers to generate brain-force in young people by a similar unexhausting method.


CHAPTER XXII
OUR RELATION TO THE SACRED TRIBE

"Israël was despised and rejected; when we see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is full of sorrows and acquainted with grief. We hid our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not.

"We thought him stricken of God; but he was wounded for our transgressions, and with his stripes we are healed.

"He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied; by his knowledge shall he justify many; for he makes intercession for transgressors."

The Path of intellectual Progress is a Pulsation between the active study of Nature's variety of manifestations and repose in the contemplation of The Unmanifested Unity. Science and Art tend to become, every now and then, entangled in and weakened by the overwhelming multiplicity of sensible facts. But Nature has provided us with a Sacred Tribe, subjected from Time immemorial to a peculiar discipline, which somewhat unfits its