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would be likely to increase rather than to diminish the 
mischief. 
It remains somewhat contemptuously 
aloof from the 
eternal conflict of the Black School with the White. At the 
same time, there is a certain feeling among the Yellow adepts 
that should either of these Schools become annihilated, the 
result might well be that the victor would sooner or later turn 
his released energy against themselves. 
In accordance, therefore, with their general plan of 
non-action, as expressed in The Tao Teh King, of dealing 
with mischief before it has become too strong to be 
dangerous, they interfere gently from time to time to redress 
the balance. 
During the last two generations the Masters of the Yellow 
School have been compelled to take notice of the progressive 
ruin of the White adepts. Christianity, which possessed at 
least the semblance of a White formula, is in the agonies of 
decomposition, even before it is actually dead. Materialistic 
science has overwhelmed the faith and hope of the Christians 
(they never possessed any charity to overwhelm) with a 
demonstration of the sorrow, transitoriness, and cruel futility 
of the Universe. A vast wave of pessimism has engulfed the 
fortress of Man's soul. 
It was indeed a deadly blow to the adepts of the White 
School when Science, their own familiar friend in whom they 
trusted, lifted up his heel against them. It was in this 
conjuncture that the Yellow adepts sent forth into the 
Western world a messenger, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, with 
the distinct mission to destroy, on the one hand, the crude 
schools of Christianity, and, on the other, to eradicate the 
materialism from Physical Science. She made the necessary 
connection with Edward Maitland and Anna Kingsford, who 
were trying rather helplessly to put the exoteric formulae of 
the White School into the hands of students , and with the 
secret representatives of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. It is 
not for us in this place to estimate the degree of success with