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H.P. Blavatsky As I Knew Her

By Alice Leighton Cleather

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First Meeting With H. P. B.

COMPASSION speaks and saith : ' Can there be ^^ bliss when all that lives must suffer ? Shalt thou be saved and hear the whole world cry ? ' . . . Thou shalt attain . . . and cross the gate of final knowledge but only to wed woe if thou would'st be Tathagata,1 follow upon thy predecessors' steps, remain unselfish till the endless end . . . Self-doomed to live through future Kalpas,2 unthanked and unperceived bymen; wedged as a stone with countless other stones which form the ' Guardian Wall/ such is thy future . . . Built by the hands of many Masters of Compassion, raised by their tortures, by their blood cemented, it shields mankind, since man is man, protecting it from further and far greater misery and sorrow." The Voice of the Silence. By H. P. Blavatsky.