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"WHO's the man that says we're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding? Thus spoke once a true observer of men. Never was it truer than with regard to the men and women who live in the two great halves of the world, the East and the West. Dreams are everywhere the same, and hearts everywhere beat to the same rhythm; ignorance, lust and greed, under dark skins or fair skins, show the same ugly visage. It was said by a wise woman of France: "Tout comprendre, c'est toutpardonner-To understand all, is to pardon all." From one step higher whence to survey life, the lover of Humanity will say: "To understand all is to admire all."

IT is a true saying, and one experienced and proved by us all, that we rise to higher things on the stepping stones of our dead selves. The life of man is a continual change of vision; as experiences come to him one after another, it is as if he rose from one level to another as he climbs up a mountain side, and therefore his vision steadily changes. We recognise that there are two kinds of vision possible for us, that of the ordinary man of the world, and that other vision which is presented to us by the great leaders of humanity, the founders of the religions. But we are apt to imagine that that lofty vision of the great teachers is something reserved for them alone, that we men in these lower levels are not capable of a divine vision. Yet the whole purpose of the message of Theosophy is to show that what the greatest of mankind has achieved shall some day be the achievement of every human being. In the course of these three lectures I shall try to show how there is possible for us a divine vision of man, of nature, and of God.