He in a very real sense is incarnate in the religion that He bestows.

While that religion lives and teaches, while men still find in it the expression of their thought, so long that divine Man must remain, and guide and protect and help the religion which He gave to earth.

Such is the law.

No Master may leave our humanity while that which He started as a human school is still existing upon earth.

Some have passed away, and would no longer be spoken of as Masters--the name given to Them in the occult world is different--but Those who have passed away have passed away because Their religions are dead: the Masters of ancient Egypt, of ancient Chaldea, have gone from this earth into the mighty company of Those who no longer bear the burden of the flesh.