of its nectar and its poison is enforced
till all is ready and the increasing Descent finds a being, a nature prepared and conditioned for its complete
rule and its all-encompassing presence. But if the equality and the psychic light and will are already there, then
this process, though it cannot be dispensed with, can still be much lightened and facilitated: it will be rid of
its worst dangers; an inner calm, happiness, confidence will support the steps through all the difficulties and
trials of the transformation and the growing Force profiting by the full assent of the nature will rapidly diminish
and eliminate the power of the opposing forces. A sure guidance and protection will be present throughout, sometimes
standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there in the beginning
and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide
and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress
assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole
nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and
their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual
powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose.In this process and at an early stage of it it becomes evident that what we know of ourselves, our present conscious existence, is only a representative formation, a superficial activity, a changing external result of a vast mass of concealed existence.
