is as much disorder as enjoyment where abstinence should be.
But underlying all that can be said about the difficulties of Seers in their intercourse with those around them, there is a latent fact of which the best physical expression is perhaps the irritable spring in the plant called Impatiens Noli me tangere. By means of this spring, the seed is scattered, to germinate at a distance from the parent plant. The Prophet's knowledge is the outcome of all the most spiritual thought of his own country and age; he can have no resting-place among his own people, because God means him to take a message to distant countries and to future generations. Those who devote themselves to a study of the Pulsation doctrine naturally aspire to apply their knowledge to investigate the Laws of the throbbing backwards and forwards of that mighty engine, a mass of men animated by a common emotion.
CHAPTER XV
WHY THE PROPHET SHOULD BE LONELY
"It is good that one man should die for the People."
We have been hitherto tracing the evils caused by the inability or unwillingness of the masses to enter into the thoughts of the Seers. We must now look at the other side, and try to see how dangerous to society is overwillingness to listen to the utterances of inspired Seers. Loneliness tends to save the Seer from becoming a charlatan, and to make of him a true Reformer. It
