“The cases in which assistance is given to mankind by nature-spirits are few. The majority of such creatures shun the haunts of man, and retire before him, disliking his emanations and the perpetual bustle and unrest which he creates all around him.”

Source: Invisible Helpers (1915), Ch. 4

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English theosophist 1854–1934

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