The spiritual life

(Martin Jones) #1

The Future that Awaits Us. 291


*'discovery," a missing linkof knowledge, and


this higher mind grasping the presented truth


works it down into its own lower nature, so


that this innermost conviction overpowers all


logic and all the slow processes of reasonmg,


illuminating the lower mind, makmg compre-


hensiblethe thought,dominating the will,until


all the lower nature is enlightened by theray


fromitshigher Self, Thatis partof the help


rendered to men by those who have reached


the devachanic region,and itwillbe rendered


moreand more fully to the backward of the


raceaslargernumbers learnto function onthe


devachanic plane. Here are possibilities that


as yet are hardlydreamed of,the training of


thoughttoreachheightsunimagined,themaking


ofmightyelementalsandthesendingthemforth


to aid into the world of men,the guiding of


mindsgropingaftertruth,thebreathingofloftiest


inspirationsintothosewhohavefittedthemselves


toreceive them. As thought takes form and


the forces of devachanic life are thrown into


it, such a form becomes a mostpotent agent,


and thus one worker can aid myriads of his


fellow-men.


Wisdomissodifferentonthat levelthat itis


scarcely possible to give even a glimpse of its


methodsanditsworkings. It isnottheobserva-

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