No aspirant need be distressed because so few accept the higher teaching. Religious prophets and mystical seers arise in different localities to take care of the others, those who lack the subtlety of perception and the refinement of intuition to respond sufficiently to it. All aspirants have to acquire something of the immense patience of the sages, who know that evolution is always in progress and that Nature takes her time. But along with that patience they have constantly to suffer the remembrance of a terrible fact--a crisis in human history has been reached and failure to return to a truer spiritual basis for life quickly enough will bring terrible catastrophe. Nevertheless all events will be used in the unfoldment of the World-Idea and all will work out for good in the end. They must trust the divine wisdom. It never makes a mistake and its hidden purpose is utterly beneficent.
-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 4 : World Crisis > # 426
