5. “To be incapable of tears”—does not that mean that the physical emotions, being merged into the inner physical, that tears are impossible as being an outward phase of the physical nature—whereas the psychical emotions, to use a physical term are vibratory. _A._ “The whole of ‘Light on the Path,’ is written in an astral cipher” is stated at the outset of the “comments;” the word “tears” does not refer to physical tears in any way. It is the only word which will convey any idea whatever of the moisture of life, that which bursts from the human soul in its experience of sensation and emotion, and in the passion of its hunger for them. 6. “How is one to take the snake of self in a steady grasp and conquer it?” W. _A._ This is the great mystery which each man must solve for himself. IV. WALLASEY, Oct. 1st Referring to the comments on “Light on the Path,” in the first number of LUCIFER, may I ask whether the full paradox “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears, and yet no eyes incapable of tears can see,” _i.e._, see good or God, is not truer and stronger than its part? “Therefore the soul of the occultist must become stronger than joy and greater than sorrow” I presume means that he must not _seek_ joy or _fear_ sorrow, not that he may not enjoy nor sorrow? The phrase by itself may read “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears,” tearless, dry, in fact dead! which is obviously not the author’s intention in “Light on the Path.” Yours truly, A. E. I. _A._ Once more I must refer to the preliminary statement in the comments that “Light on the Path,” is written in an astral cipher, and that tears do not mean the tears of the physical body, but the rain drops that come from the passion-life of the human soul. These being stayed for ever, the astral sight is no longer blinded or blurred. Divine love and charity then find room, when personal desire is gone. Joy and sorrow, _for oneself_, then drop naturally into another place than that which they filled before. V. (1.) I desire very strongly to obtain conquest over “self;” would my using the occult means for so doing, which apparently to me lie without the _ordinary_ experience of Christians, necessitate my sacrificing any iota of my belief in the _power of Christ_? (2.) If I submit myself to the occult conditions under which the four first rules in “Light on the Path” may be “engraved on my heart and life;” will these conditions permit me to _pray throughout_ for the Divine help and strength of the Eternal Christ, who has passed the portal, opened the “way,” and whom I believe to be the “Master of Masters,” the “Lord of Angels”?