"Patriots all! In them lived that desire to be free, that desire to raise their heads in dignity. Underneath the aegis of Almighty God they breathed the power of freedom with reverence for it. They knew that that which quickened them was light and they treasured it and they sought to expand it.

"They sought to be more noble. They desired to make something of themselves but they realized the power to do so was not always in their hands.

"So when necessary, they accepted partial limitations but they never accepted partial limitations as final. They determined to shatter human concepts and they went outside of themselves to the Deity and called to Almighty God for assistance.

"They knew naught of the Ascended Masters during those . . . ages. They did not know of the existence of the angelic hosts. Many of them had a plain and simple faith in God alone and they called to God as the 'unknown God.' But God answered them as the known God."