It is a mere chaos of facts, and they cannot explain or correlate them.

They cannot classify or place them in order.

They have no world-embracing knowledge which enables them to place each fact in its own place, and to show the relation of one set of facts to the other.

There are splendid observations, but no co-ordination and building of them into a science; and it seems to me that it is a duty of the Theosophical Society, not only to deal with the facts that others have verified, but to carry on researches by properly qualified persons among its own members; to utilise its magnificent theories, its knowledge--for they are more than theories--for the explanation of new phenomena, for the gradual evolution of new powers among greater numbers of its members; and I do not believe that in that there is so much danger as some people fear.

I do not believe that the study of the hidden side of Nature is so perilous a study as some think.