And take that other line about which Mrs.Cooper Oakley spoke--the line of Historical Research into Mysticism.

Has it ever struck you how much of the work of our forerunners remains unknown, because their work is not scanned by sympathetic eyes?
How many of the pioneers in the past centuries lie under a heap of calumny, because none has tried to understand, none has tried to realise, the nature of their work?
Men like Paracelsus, Cagliostro, and many another whose name I might mention, who are crying out, as it were, for research, and thought, and labor on mystical and occult lines.

There again I have good hope that some really efficient work will be going on; for to my mind one of the purposes for which our Presidency should exist is to act as a centre round which every country may gather together, and thus communicate with each other, and form bodies scattered all over the world for mutual aid.

The strength of our Society is in that unity of thought, which can only be brought about as one part of the Society realises that other parts are linked with it, as it ought to be, by the President of the whole.

For the Presidency would be an idle show, if it is not to be a centre for inspiration and labor.