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Letter №65 p. 20

of my time to the progress of the Eclectic. But I am but one and you are many, and none of my Fellow Brothers with the exception of M. will help me in this work, not even our semi-European Greek Brother who but a few days back remarked that when "every one of the Eclectics on the Hill will have become a Zetetic then will he see what he can do for them." And as you are aware there is very little hope for this. Men seek after knowledge until they weary themselves to death, but even they do not feel very impatient to help their neighbour with their knowledge; hence there arises a coldness, a mutual indifference which renders him who knows inconsistent with


Notes: 

The semi-European Greek Brother may refer to Master Hilarion. See below, comment by Joy Mills.

Zetetic. As an adjective, it means "inquiring, investigating"; as a noun, "inquirer."