The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility and perseverance leads to the certitude of realisation.

Nature shall live to manifest secret God,

The Spirit shall take up the human play,

This earthly life become the life divine.

In her the conscious Will took human shape:

She only can save herself and save the world.

O soul, intruder in Nature’s ignorance,

Armed traveller to the unseen supernal heights,

Thy spirit’s fate is a battle and ceaseless march

Against invisible opponent Powers,

A passage from Matter into timeless self.

On the alter throwing thy thoughts, thy heart, thy works,

Thy fate is a long sacrifice to the gods

Till they have opened to thee thy secret self

And made thee one with the indwelling God.

This world was not built with random bricks of Chance,

A blind god is not destiny’s architect;

A conscious power has drawn the plan of life,

There is a meaning in each curve and line.

The mind of mortal man is led by words,

His sight retires behind the walls of Thought

And looks out only through half-opened doors.

A Magician’s formulas have made Matter’s laws

And while they last, all things by them are bound;

But the spirit’s consent is needed for each act

And Freedom walks with same pace with Law.

All hear can change if the Magician choose

The supermind shall claim the world for Light

And thrill with love of God the enamoured heart

And place Light’s crown on Nature’s lifted head

And found Light’s reign on her unshaking base.

“Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep

Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time

For the magnificent soul of man on earth.

Thy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy.”

This in us laughs and weeps, suffers the stroke,

Exults in victory, struggles for the crown;

Identified with the mind and body and life,

It takes on itself their anguish and defeat,

Bleeds with Fate’s whips and hangs upon the cross,

Yet is the unwounded and immortal self

Supporting the actor in the human scene.