When nobody could help a man, and nothing was left for him but to go through with the struggle in his own soul, then he came to the Retreat.

There he stayed till he reached some conclusion: that is, if he could reach one within a reasonable time; for the pretense of unconquerable hesitation was not received.

When he arrived at his resolve, he went away: what the resolve was, and where he was going, whether to High or Low, to Rome or Islington, to Church or Dissent, or even to Mohammed or Theosophy, or what not, or nothing, nobody asked.

Such a foundation had struck many devoted followers of the Founder as little better than a negation or an abdication.

The Founder thought otherwise.