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a villa actually prophesied to us long before we reached Naples by that
Brother of the A.'. A.'. who appeared to me in Ziirich.
Any point
which was obscure to me was cleared up in some new discourse (the
discourses have consequently been re—arranged).
Before printing, the
whole work was read by several persons of rather less that average
intelligence, and any point not quite clear even to them has been
elucidated.
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May the whole Path now be plain to all!
Frater Perdurabo is the most honest of all the great religious teachers.
Others have said: “Believe me! ” He says: “Don?believeme! ” He does
not ask for followers; would despise and refuse them. He wants an
independent and self—reliant body of students to follow out their own
methods of research. If he can save them time and trouble by giving a
few useful “tips,” his work will have been done to his own satisfaction.
Those who have wished men to believe in them were absurd. A per-
suasive tongue or pen, or an efficient sword, with rack and stake, pro-
duced this “belief,” which is contrary to, and destructive of, all real
religious experience.
The whole life of Frater Perdurabo is now devoted to
seeing that you obtain this living experience of Truth for,
by, and in yourselves!
SOROR VIRAKAM (Mary d’Este Sturges).