HUMAN SPIRIT'S DESTINY
A Transcendent who is beyond all world and all Nature and yet possesses the world
and its nature, who
has descended with something of himself into it and is shaping it into that which as yet it is not, is the Source
of our being, the Source of our works and their Master... The powers we are now satisfied to call gnosis, intuition
or illumination are only fainter lights of which that is the full and flaming source, and between the highest human
intelligence and it there lie many levels of ascending consciousness, highest mental or overmental, which we would
have to conquer before we arrived there or could bring down its greatness and glory here. Yet, however difficult,
that ascent, that victory is the destiny of the human spirit and that luminous descent or bringing down of the
divine Truth is the inevitable term of the troubled evolution of the earth-nature; that intended consummation is
its raison d ’être, our culminating state and the explanation of our terrestrial existence. For though the
transcendental Divine is already here as the Purushottama in the secret heart of our mystery, he is veiled by many
coats and disguises of his magic world-wide Yoga-Maya; it is only by the ascent and victory of the Soul here in
the body that the disguises can fall away and the dynamis of the supreme Truth replace this tangled weft of half-truth
that becomes creative error, this emergent Knowledge that is converted by its plunge into the inconscience of Matter
and its slow partial return towards itself into an effective Ignorance.
All time-made difference they overcame;
The world was fibered with their own heart-strings;
Close-drawn to the heart that beats in every breast,
They reached the one self in all through boundless love.