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wonderful event which was to make an enormous change in Ids 

 mode of livincj and his outlook on the future. As seeds inav 

 fall continually for thousands of years upon hard rock without 

 being able to germinate, until gradually, by the disintegration 

 of the rock, soil is formed, enabling the seed at la^t to take 

 root, so for countless ages was the mind of that noble animal 

 being prepared until, in the fulfilment of time, the Spiritual took 

 root and he became a living soul. The change was marvellous : 

 he was now aware of something higher and njore perfect than 

 himself, he found that he was able to form ideals above his 

 ability to attain to, resulting in a sense of iuferiority akin to a 

 Fall, he was conscious of the difference of Eight and Wrong and 

 felt happy and blessed when he followed the Good, but ashamed 

 and accursed when he chose the Evil ; he became upright in 

 stature and able to communicate his thoughts and wishes to his 

 fellows by means of language, and by feeling his freedom to 

 choose between the Good, Beautiful, and True, on the one hand, 

 and the Evil, Ugly, and False, on the other, he became aware that 

 he was responsible and answerable to a mysterious higher Being 

 for his actions. All these at once raised him far above other 

 animals and he gradually began to feel the presence within liini 

 of a wonderful power, the nucleus of that Transcendental Self 

 which had taken root and which, from that age to this, has urged 

 Man ever iorward. first to form, and then struwle to attain, 

 higher Ideals of Perfection. As a mountaineer who with stern 

 persistence struggles upward from height to height, gaining at 

 each step a clearer and broader view, so do we, as we progress 

 in our struggle upwards toward the understanding of Perfection 

 ever see clearer and clearer that the Invisil:)le is the Peal, the 

 visible is only its shadow, that our Spiritual Personality is akin 

 to that Great Eeality, that we cannot search out and know that 

 Personality, it cannot be perceived by our senses, it is not an 

 idea, any more than we can see a Sound by our sense of Sight or 

 measure an Infinity hy our finite units : all we can so far do is 

 to feel and mark its efiect in guiding our Physical Ego to choose 

 the real from the shadow, the plus from the minus, receiving 

 back in some marvellous mode of refiex action the power to draw 

 further nourishment from the Infinite. As that Inner Personality 

 becomes more and more firmly established, higher ideals and 

 knowledge of the Eeality bud out, and, as these recpiire the 

 clothing of finite expressions before they can become part of our 

 consciousness, so are they clothed by our PJiysical Ego and 

 become forms of thought ; and, although the Physical Ego is only 

 the shadow, or image projected on the physical screen, of the 



