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\nThoughts
\nand Glimpses <\/font> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n          
\n<\/span>            
\n<\/span> <\/span>S<\/b><\/span>OME think it
\npresumption to believe in a special Providence or to look upon oneself as an
\ninstrument in the hands of God, but I find that every man has a special
\nProvidence and I see that God uses the mattock of the labourer and babbles in
\nthe mouth of a little child.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Providence is
\nnot only that which saves me from the ship- wreck in which everybody else has
\nfoundered. Providence is also that which, while all others are saved, snatches
\naway my last plank of safety and drowns me in the solitary ocean.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>The delight of
\nvictory is sometimes less than the attraction of struggle and suffering;
\nnevertheless the laurel and not the cross should be the aim of the conquering
\nhuman soul.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Souls that do
\nnot aspire are God’s failures; but Nature is pleased and loves to multiply them
\nbecause they assure her of stability and prolong her empire.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Those who are
\npoor, ignorant, ill-born or ill-bred are not the common herd; the common herd
\nare all who are satisfied with pettiness and an average humanity.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Help men, but do
\nnot pauperise them of their energy; lead and instruct men, but see that their
\ninitiative and originality remain intact; take others into thyself, but give
\nthem in return the full godhead of their nature. He who can do this is the
\nleader and the guru.<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>God has made the
\nworld a field of battle and filled it with the trampling of combatants and the
\ncries of a great wrestle and struggle. Would you filch His peace without paying
\nthe price He has fixed for it?<\/p>\n

\nPage-391<\/font><\/span><\/span>
\n 
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Distrust
\na perfect-seeming success, but when having succeeded thou findest still much to
\ndo, rejoice and go forward; for the labour is long before the real perfection.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>There is no more
\nbenumbing error than to mistake a stage for the goal or to linger too long in a
\nresting place.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Wherever thou
\nseest a great end, be sure of a great beginning. Where a monstrous and painful
\ndestruction appals thy mind, console it with the certainty of a large and great
\ncreation. God is there not only in the still small voice, but in the fire and in
\nthe whirlwind.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>The greater the
\ndestruction, the freer the chances of creation; but the destruction is often
\nlong, slow and oppressive, the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in
\nits triumph. The night returns again and again and the day lingers or seems even
\nto have been a false dawning. Despair not therefore but watch and work. Those
\nwho hope violently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God’s
\npurpose and thy will to accomplish.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>The hand of the
\ndivine Artist works often as if it were unsure of its genius and its material.
\nIt seems to touch and test and leave, to pick up and throwaway and pick up
\nagain, to labour and fail and botch and repiece together. Surprises and
\ndisappointments are the order of his work before all things are ready. What was
\nselected, is cast away into the abyss of reprobation; what was rejected, becomes
\nthe comer-stone of a mighty edifice. But behind all this is the sure eye of a
\nknowledge which surpasses our reason and the slow smile of an infinite ability.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>God has all time
\nbefore him and does not need to be always in a hurry. He is sure of his aim and
\nsuccess and cares not if he break his work a hundred times to bring it nearer
\nperfection. Patience is our first great necessary lesson, but not the dull slow-<\/p>\n

\nPage-392<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

ness
\nto move of the timid, the sceptical, the weary, the slothful, the unambitious or
\nthe weakling; a patience full of a calm and gathering strength which watches and
\nprepares itself for the hour of swift great strokes, few but enough to change
\ndestiny.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Wherefore God
\nhammers so fiercely at his world, tramples and kneads it like dough, casts it so
\noften into the blood-bath and the red hell-heat of the furnace? Because humanity
\nin the mass is still a hard, crude and vile ore which will not otherwise be
\nsmelted and shaped; as is his material, so is his method. Let it help to
\ntransmute itself into nobler and purer metal, his ways with it will be gentler
\nand sweeter, much loftier and fairer its uses.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Wherefore he
\nselected or made such a material, when he had all infinite possibility to choose
\nfrom? Because of his divine Idea which saw before it not only beauty and
\nsweetness and purity, but also force and will and greatness. Despise not force,
\nnor hate it for the ugliness of some of its faces, nor think that love only is
\nGod. All perfect perfection must have something in it of the stuff of the hero
\nand even of the Titan. But the greatest force is born out of the greatest
\ndifficulty.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>All would change
\nif man could once consent to be spiritualised; but his nature, mental and vital
\nand physical, is rebellious to the higher law. He loves his imperfection.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>The Spirit is
\nthe truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection are its
\nmasks, but in their perfection should be its moulds. To be spiritual only is not
\nenough; that prepares a number of souls for heaven, but leaves the earth very
\nmuch where it was. Neither is a compromise the way of salvation.<\/p>\n

     <\/span>The world knows
\nthree kinds of revolution. The material has strong results, the moral and
\nintellectual are infinitely larger in their scope and richer in their fruits,
\nbut the spiritual are the great sowings.<\/p>\n

\nPage-393<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

If
\nthe triple change could coincide in a perfect correspondence, a faultless work
\nwould be done; but the mind and body of mankind cannot hold perfectly a strong
\nspiritual inrush: most is spilt, much of the rest is corrupted. Many
\nintellectual and physical upturnings of our soil are needed to work out a little
\nresult from a large spiritual sowing.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>Each religion
\nhas helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness
\nand height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave
\nhim some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way
\nto be wiser, gentler, purer; Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in
\naction and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and
\nprofoundest spiritual possibilities. A great thing would be done if all these
\nGod- visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual
\ndogma and cult-egoism stand in the way.<\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>All religions
\nhave saved a number of souls, but none yet has been able to spiritualise
\nmankind. For that there is needed not cult and creed, but a sustained and
\nall-comprehending effort at spiritual self-evolution.\n<\/p>\n

The changes we
\nsee in the world today are intellectual, moral, physical in their ideal and
\nintention: the spiritual revolution waits for its hour and throws up meanwhile
\nits waves here and there. Until it comes the sense of the others cannot be
\nunderstood and till then all interpretations of present happening and forecast
\nof man’s future are vain things. For its nature, power, event are that which
\nwill determine the next cycle of our humanity.<\/p>\n

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