Annie Besant · 8

And if, friends, looking over the line of thought that I have traversed hastily tonight, if glancing back to the history of the past, you are able to see there something of the promise of the future; if you realise something of the changing world around you, the physical earth showing signs of alteration; if you see the beginnings of the new type, of the new sub-­race; if you understand something of the [130] problems around us and the hopelessness of trying to solve them along lines previously used; if you realise the growing expectation, the looking for the coming of One to lead and to guide, and then you realise that while He is preparing for His coming, His children are preparing to welcome Him and are getting ready to march under His banner and to carry out His will; then I think that to you, as well as to some of us, there will rise up the hope, nay, the certainty, that we are on the eve of mighty changes to be carried out under a World Teacher, who shall come to our help, who shall act as our Guide; and as that thought grows strong in your hearts, life will grow full of hope, full of joyful expectation. You will realise that the world is not left alone, that the troubles of the present are but the birth-pangs out of which a new civilisation shall be born; and that just as in the coming of a longed-for son the pain is forgotten in the joy of the welcome, so, the troubles of our time, menacing and terrible as they are, are but that hour that precedes the dawning, are but the sufferings that precede the birth; and that we also shall ere very, very long realise that change is upon us, that the Teacher is with us, that hope has changed into realisation, and that the longing for the coming has altered into the delight of the come. [131]

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[2] This process is usually called “the development of psychic faculties,” and it is so, in the true meaning of the word ‘psychic’. But it does not mean the development of clairvoyance and clairaudience, which depend on a different process.

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