The spiritual life

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The Future thatAwaits Us.^295


ayetmightierworldwhichdwarfsallthatwenl


before. One other range Is still within the


limitof humanvision withinthereach,I dare


not sayof human thought,but to someextent


of human apprehension, where Nirvana binds


up allthese glories of humanity,and whereits


possibilities are seen and realised and are no


longer mere lovely dreams. Life beyond all


fancy of living,activity in wisdom and power


and love beyond men's wildest imaginations,


mightyhierarchiesofspiritualintelligences,each


seeming vaster and more wonderful than the


one before. What here seems life is but as


death comparedwith that life,our sightisbut


blindnessandourwisdombutfolly. Flumanity!


what hasit to doinsucharegion,what place


hasmaninsuchaworldasthat? And then-


sweeping as it were from the veryheart of it


all-from the LoGOS who is its Life and


Light-comes the knowledge that this is the


goal of man's pilgrimage, that this is man's


true home,that this isthe world to which he


reallybelongs,whencehavecomeallthegleams


ofhghtthathaveshownuponhiminhisweary


journey. Then it comes into the dazzled


consciousness that man has been living, and


experiencing,andclimbingfromthe physicalto


the astral, from the astral to the devachanlc,

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