“Down the ages men have achieved, are achieving and will achieve. The only difference is that – as the intellect of man develops – the requirements for initiation become more drastic and exacting, and the initiate therefore becomes of a distinctly higher order. The Master today is infinitely wiser and more full of love and more “occultly reasonable” than was the Master in Atlantean times.”
~ Alice A. Bailey, 1880-1949, Theosophist and Author on Esoteric Spirituality