What I wrote in my last is what may be properly said to earnest
inquirers who show by their perseverance that they are not mere idle
curiosity-seekers, desirous of beguiling the tedium of life with new
experiments and sensations. It is not _what_ is done, but the spirit in
which the least thing is done for Them who are all, that is counted.
You ask the names of the seven rays or lodges. The names could not be
given if known to me. In these matters names are always realities, and
consequently to give the name would be to reveal the thing itself.
Besides, if the names were given, the ordinary person hearing them
would not understand them. Just as if I should say that the name of
the first is X, which expresses nothing at all to the mind of the
hearing person. All that can be said is that there exist those seven
rays, districts, or divisions, just as we say that in a town there are
legislators, merchants, teachers, and servants. The difference is that
in this case we know all about the town, and know just what those names
mean. The name only directs the mind to the idea or essential quality.
Again I must go. But Brothers are never parted while they live for the
True alone.