Not only have there been many Avatars, and many Buddhas, but when we realize the meaning of these terms and the mysteries they represent, we discover that while it may be the special mission of one, like Christna, or Buddha, or Jesus, to undertake the work of enlightening and redeeming any age; there are other Masters, or Illuminati, engaged in other work, on different planes, to promote the same general results.
The result with each of the great Saviors of mankind has been, that the common people, or the priesthood, have eventually either crucified or deified them.
In the case of Jesus they have done both. Eight separate and deliberate attempts have already been made to assassinate the present representative of the School of Natural Science, who was educated in the order of the Illuminati, and delegated by that Order to present these great truths to the world to-day.
This individual is only in the broadest metaphysical sense (as already defined), an Avatar, which, as shown, is a composite idea, focused in and represented by an individual man or teacher.
The work of this Master is to instruct, to exemplify, and to demonstrate, the ancient Wisdom on Scientific lines, in keeping with the needs, the opportunities, and the scientific spirit of the present age.
He does not preach to the multitude in parables. He undertakes to instruct the few who are ready and qualified to receive such instruction, and who will properly use and not abuse it, and he does this “without money and without price”; “without the hope of fee or reward.” (Herein is the Avataric Spirit of Freemasonry.)
What his reward will be with the rabble, or with the “money changers,” he knows too well, but to such as he, fear is unknown.
I am speaking not for him, but of him, after the blessed privilege of seven years of the most intimate association, and such co-operation as I have been capable of giving.
His plan and motive seem to be to get as much as possible of this knowledge of the soul, and of spiritual things, to the attention of the “progressive intelligence of the present age,” in order that it may become exemplified and diffused among all classes, and for the benefit of the whole human race.
We have passed the age of fable, and of blind faith, and have come to the age of fact and law. Kali Yuga means the Iron Age.