SpiritualLifefortheManoftheWorld.^23
thesuccessofthemightywhole,thatenrolledus
assacrificialworkerswiththeDeity,andnoglory
isgreaterthanthegloryof the personalfailure
which ensures universal success. (Applause.)
Thatisonlyforthe strong. I grantit. That
is only for the heroes. It is their work and
theirdelight. But even to beable to seethe
beautyof itistobringsomeof thebeautyinto
everyoneof ourlives. For to seea thing to
benobleisto begintoincarnatethatnobilityin
your life, and the mere recognition of the
splendour of an idealisthe first step towards
becomingtransformedmtoitsimage.
Nowsuppose that youandI canshapeour
livesonlinessuchasthesewhichinadequatelyI
havetriedtosketch,weshallbecomethespiritual
man living in the life of the world, making
the world slowly after the fashion of the
Divineideal,andmakingitmoreandmorethe
perfectlymanifested Divine thought. That is
the central idea thenwhichwill transform the
manofthe world into the spiritual man, and
in the world it can best be performed. The
life of the jungle, for those who know the
many lives of men, is never the last life of a
saviourof hisrace. Sometimessuchalifewill
be one of the many lives through which he
goestogather universalexperience; sometimes