Hence it is not a question for any to decide for us: we have to decide it for ourselves.

And as I say, I can only put to you what seem to me the two possibilities.

Let me take the bad possibility first.

It may be that I, in whose hands these two powers now are placed, shall prove too weak to bear that burden, too blind to walk along that difficult path.
It may be that I shall err on the one side or on the other, either making the Society too exoteric and empty, a material thing, or, on the other hand, pressing too far the spiritual side, with all that that means.

It may be that the task is too great, and that the time has not come.