It would be impossible for me in the compass of this article to describe all my experiences in the new life to which I dedicated myself, nor indeed would it be proper to do so; suffice it to say, that I progressed beyond my Ushas' most sanguine expectations. And here I would remark, that I found my chief stimulus to exertion to be one which had been completely wanting in my former experience. It consisted simply in this, that altruism had been substituted for egotism. Formerly, I made the most herculean spiritual effort to tide myself over the great period of danger--the middle of the fifth round. "That," as Mr Sinnett correctly says, "is the stupendous achievement of the adept as regards his own personal interests;" and of course our own interests were all that I or any of the other _mahatmas_ ever thought of. "He has reached," pursues our author, "the farther shore of the sea in which so many of mankind will perish. He waits there, in a contentment which people cannot even realise without some glimmering of spirituality--the sixth sense--themselves, for the arrival of his future companions." This is perfectly true. I always found that the full enjoyment of this sixth sense among _mahatmas_ was heightened just in proportion to the numbers of other people who perish, so long as you were safe yourself. Here among the Sisters, on the other hand, the principle which was inculcated was, "Never mind if you perish yourself, so long as you can save others;" and indeed the whole effort was to elaborate such a system by means of the concentration of spiritual forces upon earth, as should be powerful enough to redeem it from its present dislocated and unhappy condition. To this end had the efforts of the Sisters been directed for so many centuries, and I had reason to believe that the time was not far distant when we should emerge from our retirement to be the saviours and benefactors of the whole human race. It followed from this, of course, that I retained all the supernatural faculties which I had acquired as a _mahatma_, and which I now determined to use, not for my own benefit as formerly, but for that of my fellow-creatures, and was soon able--thanks to additional faculties, acquired under Ushas' tutorship--to flit about the world in my astral body without inconvenience.