60 Evolution of Life and Form. 



will never come visibly again to earth until men 

 have learnt to reverence once more what is above 

 them, and to understand their place in the Kosmos, 

 to worship as well as to command. The Gods work 

 all the same. They are not deprived of their func- 

 tions by our folly, by our conceit, by our ignorance. 

 Only they work unseen, and we forfeit the sweet 

 comfort of their visible presence, the strength and 

 joy of the old heroic days, the dignity of conscious 

 companionship with the Immortals, the ever- renewed 

 assurance of super-physical life. Not one death 

 that happens on our earth, but a God has struck 

 away that body whose work is over; not one 

 " natural catastrophe," but a God has guided it to 

 the happening ; not one help given to a man in need, 

 but a God is the agent behind the visible helper ; 

 not one answer to the cry of man in his distress, 

 that is not the response of a God to human sorrow. 

 Everywhere they are working. Everywhere they 

 are bringing about what we see as dead mechanical 

 nature. Every phenomenon is the veil of a God, 

 and there is nothing done in which an Intelligence 

 does not take part. 



Seven are the great Gods below the Trinity, 

 below the Trimurti. Every religion, again, ac- 

 knowledges these Seven. The Christian speaks 

 of the " Seven Spirits that are before the throne of 



