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Outstripping normal evolution — The necessity that some should do this — The magnitude of the achievement — The possibilities of selfish advance- ment— The range of the path of service — its earliest
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disciples — The impulse of fifth race improvement — The motives for an upward struggle — Ordinary human suffering and Adept sympathy — The Divine government of the world and its ministers.