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in a concrete form. There is one symbol that the 

 sages have used over and over again, in order to 

 express this wonder of the brooding life of Ishvara 

 making an image of Himself and giving to that 

 image the possibility of independent life. It is the 

 symbol of the mother and the child within the 

 womb. As the life of the mother passes into the 

 child that is building within her, transmitting to 

 that new form all the nourishment which is necessary 

 for its growing life, the whole life of the child is 

 dependent on the mother and the life-streams that 

 nourish it are drawn from her own life. The 

 building goes on, and on, and on, till the new centre 

 of life has grown strong, but not until that centre 

 can hold itself together amid the vibrations of the 

 outer universe, is the new form with its ensouling 

 life sent forth on its own independent course. So 

 does the brooding mother-life of Ishvara envelope 

 the children of His love, and so does He nourish 

 them, building them within Himself as the ages 

 pass, until they are able to hold their own centres 

 in the illimitable life of the One, the Supreme. 

 That is another principle which you have to re- 

 member throughout the details of the evolution of 

 form. 



One other that has two divisions and then the 

 statement of our main principles will be sufficiently 



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