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1897.] FRAGMENTS OF THOUGHT. 547<br />

ers are thoroughly tested. All this preliminary culture is absolutely<br />

neoesaa.ry, for when the ponderous door of the Fourth<br />

Degree creaks on its hinges to usher hitn into the mystic realms<br />

beyond, he steps into an unknown land, the limitations of which<br />

are boundless, and from which there is no door of exit. Here<br />

the neophyte finds conditions of such a oharacter that, unleBB<br />

fnlly pr~paa·~cl to re~i ve them, utter cleKtt•nction wonld im·<br />

me,liawly ensue. Therefore it iR readily seen bow great is the<br />

impm·taill!e· of fully mastering .theRe primary lell80n&, previous<br />

to enwring into the ·highllr studi~s.<br />

In ordet· to fully appreciate what the neophyte bas attained<br />

wh~n he is master of all he surve.vs, let U!\ oonKider some of the<br />

c•onclitiuns a.nd trials that be>~et those who dare tn tread the<br />

•• N11.•·row Way." AR previuuslystated, the neophyte hiatuaelf, be~<br />

l'-311146 of impt!rftlct ·knowledge of the fcWO&l and laws of nature;<br />

(!1\IIRi-R much ohhe perHficution with which he meet8. While-this<br />

t~tatem~nt isliter.1.lly ta·ue, yet the fact still remaiu. that if a.ll extrHnemtM<br />

11ml npposing for«!t'R were witbheJ.l, by far the greater<br />

pmt.iun of hiM own MtR wunl•l nut be ~allecl fot·th. Such a (!On.<br />

ditiun WoulJ lltlt!IU, at tit·st thotigbt, t; for there would be nothing<br />

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