212 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



As the past fuses with the present you awaken to a 

 larger privilege of life than man now knows. You 

 feel yourself encompassed by truth, vital and strong. 

 This art, erstwhile most baffling, stands revealed as 

 the struggle of a superhuman entity for self-expres- 

 sion. The tendency toward God has to begin anew 

 with each round of the life-spiral hence the ap- 

 parent reversion to primitive art. 



As the day closes you find yourself in the Court of 

 the Universe. Bands of many-coloured light, the 

 white radiance of eternity, stream athwart the sky. 

 The illumination is of the wonder that now is. How 

 marvellously strange the sight of the world-conscious- 

 ness passing over into a higher thought-form ! Each 

 individual element suffering reversal to take its 

 proper place in the new world-order ! You see posi- 

 tive becoming negative, negative becoming positive, 

 and Evolution giving place to Involution a proc- 

 ess as yet uncomprehended by our narrow thought. 

 And the secret of the world-struggle across the sea 

 you know: men passing their nature's bound; new 

 hopes and loyalties supplanting old ties and joys ; the 

 established creeds of right and wrong as they vanish 

 in this unmeasurable thirst for an unknown good. 

 All these things you know to be the travail of the 

 world as it gives birth to some higher entity than in- 

 dividual man. 



" Time is past," and as you speak a dove settles 

 to rest upon a pediment. Therewith you are carried 



