Part IV — World-philosophers

World-philosophers

Or of frustration and palsy of the spirit.

And a body self-dedicated to the Divine's work is the lovely Palace for the soul. And self-subordination to the Self makes a perfect man. No knowledge is knowledge that does not reveal the source of all knowledge. And knowledge will fulfill itself when the world takes all knowledge, including that of the Most High, for its province.

Oh that our education system could live up to this minimum! And what is needed to have ideas worked out through those brains and arms is a one-pointed will which is affirmation itself and an eternal stranger to negation.

Alas, pleasant living is all that the world cares for, and not the qualities associated with difficult living: hard work, discipline and self-control.

We may read into this noble truth the upward march of the human soul from its prison-house of ignorance to its Home of Freedom, Light and Knowledge; and its downward march to the Here-below with the riches gained in the upper sphere, which march makes the two ends meet and become one.

Yes, and why worth living? Because life was given to man to manifest the Divine Reality in its every aspect.

How very true! And this recognition posits the question of the greater sources of Knowledge such as the Supermind.

And where from does weakness spring? It springs from man's self-chosen separation from his true self, the divine Reality within him.

Our lower self is the formidable wall of separation from our higher or divine Self. This wall pulled down, man becomes his true self. The simile implies that our consciousness is hardly a whit better than that of the dumb oyster. But true it is that man's frail body can pinion his mighty soul!

The great man is really the one who conquers that emptiness, filling it with the dynamic Truth of existence. His will to live is his will to fulfil the why of his existence.

When our humility becomes its genuine self, it becomes an open vessel for the gifts of the Omniscient.

Spencer referred to the struggle to survive in the material life. But how to be the fittest in the spiritual life? By making oneself a conscious instrument of God's Vision and Will.

The Creation, as a manifestation of the Omnipresence, can nowhere have a vacuum. Man transformed will be a divinised godhead.

An architect who shapes his own life hangs not on his pedigree. His descendants will number their ancestors and count their lineage from him, the seed. Hence the necessity of more and more revealing books — books that can reveal the yet-unknown truths of man and nations.