Thoughts are things, intensely real things, visible enough to those whose eyes have been opened to see, and by their means the poorest man may bear his part in the good work of the world as fully as the richest. In this way at least, whether we can yet function consciously upon the astral plane or not, we all can join, and we all ought to join, the army of invisible helpers... Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934) was a ranking officer of the Theosophical Society, an organization formed in 1875 to advance the spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy.