Any great teacher coming to the world, will conform his message to the idea of life proper to the plane which he represents. Thus the message of a manasic teacher would be prolific of details much appealing to the inquiring mind. His dominant tendency would appear in treating those abstruse matters which require of his immedi ate followers far more than ordinary penetration. Through these followers he might eventually reach the ordinary mind. To this type of teachers Socrates belonged, and so even Plato, that intermediate but for whom the elder sage would have survived only as a mere name.

Jesus the Christ gave to the world no cosmogony, but Swedenborg is always constructing and explaining; and yet Jesus said: "I and the Father are one." Thus he declared that knowledge of the Divine Mind which proved his superiority to those who, in their cosmogonies, would reveal somewhat of its workings. None but a buddhic master of first rank would utter, from more than theory, the quoted words in the way Jesus did. Theosophists usually hold that the "Father" of Jesus was the Ego. While correct, they fall short of that full explanation which requires an even greater Father, to wit, the Solar Logos, or, more precisely, a certain hierarchy thereof.

In his message, a buddhic Master seldom descends to particulars. Nevertheless, as above instanced, his epitome of any large subject reveals profound knowledge of its components. To one of buddhic vision, the furtherance of that comprehensive unity which it is the great office of Love to bring about, is the supreme end; one to compel his every effort. Hence, in gathering his immediate followers, Jesus chose those best fitted to promulgate a gospel of Love. As for the choosing of Judas, that is a matter of far-reaching import. Enough that the choice was his whose spiritual vision reached beyond the confines and destiny of this planet.

Concerning Saul of Tarsus, it is said that in Atlantean times he was linked to some extent with the dark hosts. Gradually disentangling himself from them, he afterward became well-nigh free; but, in the karmic cycle of Pisces, Saul the zealot reaped the fruit of certain karmic seeds of his own sowing. Therefore, under the obsession of his old leader, he became a fanatic breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the incipient church. Miraculously released from this thralldom, Paul rose to be the great Apostle faithful unto death. From his rise we learn the unwisdom of condemning for all time even the one known to the Christian church as that basest of mankind the betrayer of his Lord.

Because a buddhic Master, Jesus appealed to the heart, rather than to the intellect; hence they who heard him gladly were those of whom an old and wise soul once said that the Lord must love the common people since he has made so many of them. Condescending to their comprehension, Jesus did not hesitate to illustrate his teaching with many current ideas which later scientific investigation has shown to be crude, or even false.

A great manasic teacher might have formulated an abstruse philosophy, or perhaps have antici pated many discoveries of physical science; or he might have dilated on the then unknown wonders of the astronomic universe, thus gaining the adherence of the eminently intellectual few; whereas, adopting a simpler method, Jesus would bind the world with the bonds of Love. So, for like reason, while taking for granted the theory of rebirth universally held by Hindu peoples - a theory which Jesus never contradicted - Gautama, in his buddhic doctrine of the noble Eight-Fold Path leading to Nirvanic bliss and union with the Divine, is as free from the abstruse as is the Sermon on the Mount; but, like that immortal discourse, the Buddha's doctrine contains the gist of profound philosophy.

The message given out by H. P. B. and which embodied the philosophy of Universal Brotherhood, emanated from certain manasic and buddhic Masters. Supplementing and more fully interpreting this message, much teaching has since appeared, and more is to follow. Inasmuch as the approaching Avatar is essentially buddhic, one coming to his own, the incipient sixth sub-race, the unparticularized buddhic method will undoubtedly be in order; but, until men generally are weary of disrupting warfare, how can the Master begin the remolding and solidifying necessary to the stability of a unified world?

H. P. B.