“Upon the Road the hidden stands revealed. Each sees and knows the villainy of each. (I can find no other word, my brother, to translate the ancient word which designates the unrevealed stupidity, the vileness and crass ignorance, and the self-interest which are distinguishing characteristics of the average aspirant.) And yet there is, with that great revelation, no turning back, no spurning of each other, and no shakiness upon the Road. The Road goes forward into day.”

— Alice A. Bailey

Glamour: A World Problem (1950), The Six Rules of the Path (Rules of the Road)

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esoteric, theosophist, writer 1880–1949

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