It is not you as you are who will make the future, but you as you shall be, self-created from your aspirations now.

And just in proportion as each of you nourishes those aspirations, and cherishes those ideals, and tries, however feebly, to work them out amid the limitations of your past which cramps your present life, just so far will you, in the interval between death and birth, make the nobler faculties which shall qualify you to be born in the sixth sub-race upon earth.

That should be your keynote in your lives now, that the inspiring motive, the controlling power.

And if you want to assure yourselves that that sub-race is on the threshold, as I said, then look at the world around you, and measure the change which is coming over it.

I said we were weak in numbers, that we are only average and mediocre people; but what about the spread of our ideas?
What about the way in which, during the last thirty years, these Theosophical ideas have spread through this Fifth Race civilisation, have permeated its literature, are beginning to guide its science, are beginning to inspire its art?
That is the proof of the strength of the force, despite the feebleness of the vehicles in which that force is playing.