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Correspondence from Eustace Miles to George MacNie Cowie
[Undated: circa October 1916]
[Fragment of letter from Eustace Miles to George MacNie Cowie.]
As an example, two of the people who have swindled me are quite high up in ordinary masonry; they ought never to have been admitted into it at all. I trusted them partly because they were masons.
By the way, one of them was one of the most unscrupulous hounds that I ever met, though an extremely clever man: and it was in his rooms that I first saw a copy of "The Equinox"!
That is very interesting about stainless silence, and the different periods.
I quite agree with what you say about Max Heindal. His work is useful as regards the evolution of the different ages, and of the World, but there is very little that is practical in his book. The main contribution of Steiner seems to be that we must keep our conscious mind awake all the time. I have seen so many instances of people who have let themselves go to powers that they do not understand; if they are good powers it is all right; if they are bad powers, it is all wrong! And I have seen many others fail because they have put curiosity first. I have one example of a person who began without any idea of money-making, and simply with the idea of helping, and she did splendidly for a time; then came the idea of money-making, and I think she went mad.
With every kind thought once again,
I am,
Yours very sincerely
Eustace Miles
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