The Word and the Spirit 301the surge of self-seeing and self-feeling and self-thinking of the
life soul of man: but this time it has to be done in many languages
by the minds of many nation entities at once and to make shape
and room for the multitudinous vastitudes, the finer and finer
subtleties, the absolute transparencies of the seeing, feeling, and
thinking of the inmost self and spirit in man in intimate touch
with the opening truths of all the levels of his existence and all
his surroundings in Nature and in supernature. The voices we
already have, the as yet strange and not yet universally accepted
subtleties of some, the immature strainings and violences of oth-
ers, the work of those who have something of the new substance
but not a mastery of its native expression and those who have
the new speech and rhythm but a poverty of the substance that
should have made it rich and ample, the perfections attained
even, are to be regarded only as incipient efforts and successes
and stimulations to a more complete disclosure of the unfolding
spirit. The speech that opens more constantly the doors of the
intuitive self in the caverns of light of our nature has not done
all that is to be done. The speech also has to be found that
shall come by the rending or removal of the golden lid between
our intelligence and the effulgent supra-intelligence and effect a
direct and sovereign descent and pouring of some absolute sight
and word of the spirit into the moulds of human language.