Very clearly not to you nor to me is the spread of these ideas due, but to the Mighty Ones behind the Society, who give the forces in which we are lacking.

For the whole Movement is Theirs; They are working outside as well as within.

And Their outside working shows itself in the innumerable movements which are all tending in the same direction.

It is not we who have spread the ideas.
The ideas are scattered in the mental atmosphere around us, and our only merit is that we caught them up a little more quickly than other people, and realise that they are a part of the Eternal Wisdom.

That is our only claim, our only prerogative--consciously, deliberately we choose these ideas, and however weakly we carry them out, none the less the choice has been made and registered in the books of Destiny.
For whether you will or not, you must grow in the direction of your thought; and you cannot be part of this Movement without your thought being more or less colored by the Theosophical ideal.
People often say: "Why should I come into the Theosophical Society?
You give us your books.