It would certainly be theosophical work to point out kindly and temperately how certain words, phrases and symbols appear to have been misunderstood or misapplied, how various claims and professions may be excessive or confused as a consequence of ignorance or vanity, or both. But it is quite another thing to condemn a man or a body of men _outright_, for certain errors in judgment or action; even though they were the result of vanity, greed or hypocrisy; indeed such wholesale condemnation would, on the contrary, be untheosophical. The one eternal, immutable law of life alone can judge and condemn a man absolutely. “Vengeance is _mine_, saith the Lord.” Were I asked how I would dare attempt “to dethrone the gods, overthrow the temple, destroy the law which feeds the priests and props the realm; I should answer as the Buddha is made to answer in the _Light of Asia_: ‘What thou bidst me keep is form which passes while the free truth stands; get thee to thy darkness.’” “What good gift hath my brother but it comes from search and strife (inward) and loving sacrifice.” * * * =Correspondence= --- ARE THE TEACHINGS ASCRIBED TO JESUS CONTRADICTORY? There are none so blind as those who won’t see, excepting those who can’t! In _Light_, for September 10th, there is a letter from Dr. Wyld, who writes as follows: “In the last number of _Light_ there is a quotation from the _Spiritual Reformer_ in which the writer shows the absurdity of the idea that Jesus was not an historic being. But while thanking the writer for this contribution, I would take the strongest objection to his assertion that many of Christ’s teachings are contradictory and mistaken. This is an assertion occasionally made by Spiritualists, and whenever I have met with it I have asked for evidence of the assertion, but hitherto I have received none.” But that might surely have been easily supplied. Here, for example, are a few very direct contradictions in the speaker’s own words. Every one knows how secret were the teachings in their nature; how secretly they were conveyed in private places apart; how secretly his secrets were to be kept; and yet in presence of the High Priest Jesus makes the astounding declaration: “_I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues; and in secret spake I nothing._”—John xviii. 20.