We too at the latest day of all the world, which is so many ages nearer to the day of Christ, for which every age has yearned, than was anything best and brightest in the times of Pythagoras, or Trismegistus or Thiruvalluvar or Agasthiyar or Avvaiyar or Pulasthiyar or all seers and Siddhars of Tamil Land - we also are the seers of our century, in the sacred pride of truth and not in the conceit of vanity, and we do well to realize the fact.


Unto you, therefore, O friends, who are joined with us unworthy in the bonds of transcendental knowledge, we address this book upon development - within and without - and upon the perfection of the man to come, because you are partakers in advance of that sacrament of Light Everlasting which will ultimately be communicated to all.