Article selection by Josef B. Widen | Note by H.P.B.
. . . It has been stated that it requires ages to become an adept.1 If, therefore, you find yourself somehow or other mixed up in mystic matters from your birth on—matters which you cannot explain to others—rest assured that it is the work of yourself in another life; and if you could strain your spiritual sight so as to see through the plexus of material results from former causes, you would behold yourself in another form, labouring in a definite direction, and you would see yourself as higher or lower, according to your merits. . . .
1. A full-blown Adept or an Initiate? There is a great difference between the two. An Adept is one versed in some and any special Art or Science. An “Initiate” is one who is initiated into the mysteries of the Esoteric or Occult philosophy—a Hierophant.—Ed. [H.P.B.]