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height Impossible to him. He can be
a hero or a weakling as he chooses.
Responsibility is a potent educator.
When man realizes that he himself
has brought on disease by ignorance
and self-indulgence, that he has Great
ed social ills and misery through his
own selfishneSs, that he has rendered
himself helpless through wrong think
ing when he realizes these facts he
will set to work to undo the evil and
to become master where now he is
slave.
The present is the child of the past
and the parent of the future and man
at every breath is making or marring
his destiny But we may ask why are
we here? Why did we emerge from
this source? or having emerged, why
have we fallen into helplessness? The
necessity for expression causes life and
the helplessness is merely apparent.
We can do and be all that we will il
we only take the means-but to answer
the other questions. Life goes forth in
various streams and as it passes from
center outwards it becomes more and
more dense, more and more differenti-
ated until the mineral, vegetable and
animal worlds appear. These lower
forms, although conscious are mindless
in the sense in which we understand
mind They are not individualized.
Evolution moves towards individualiz-
alton and through man nature forms
are perfected, etherialized endowed
with individuality. 1t is a universal
law that the lower is raised by the
higher life.
The vegetable transmutes the inor-
ganic elements into it's own sensitive
and organized tissues. The animal
changes the vegetable tissues into
more complex organs, into brain and
nerves. And man through mind leads
plant life into fuller expression of use
fulness and beauty. He trains the
animal to service and companions
ship. More, he impresses upon the
animal mind, thought, forms of justice
or injustice, kindness or cruelty, cour-
age or fear, hate, or love, and thus
man is shaping the ethics of future
humanity. That part of life which
now manifests in the animal will be-
come the slowly evolving humanity Of
another world, and upon man today
rests the responsibility of moulding
its tendencies.
Theosophy emphasizes the fact now
glimpsed by science that every cell OF
the body is living entity having in a
degree. memory, will, consciousness.
The body being an aggregation of
these entities is a vast kingdom of be-
ings of various kinds and powers Over
this kingdom, man must rule and
through that ruling become master
over the earth and it's secrets. And
interviewer with the flesh and it's appe-
tites are the greeds, the ambitions, the
selfish hopes and fears, another king
dom of turbulent subjects, and these
mast be trained, and made subservi-
ent to the master mind and will. and
through these emotions and passions.
man comes in touch with the world
soul; he understands desire, it's evil
as wei as its good, and by under
standing he can control,
We are here then to learn of every
sphere, to garner the experience of
error as we'll as truth, of failure, as
well as success. BY the knowledge of
experience to learn wisdom Man, the
thinker, is called the Eternal Pilgrim,
because he sojournS in many spheres
in many lives, cleaning knowledge of
all the myriad states and forms of
the one Life, while at the same time
he individualizes the forms beneath
him.
And this pilgrimage proceeds by in
tervals of activity and repose. each
period Of activity developing new
senses, deeper consciousness. We are
now slowly acquiring a sixth sense;
we have gained perception of in
visible forces such as electricity. the
radiant ether. On the moral plane.
we are growing weary of separateness
and are seeking unity.
The succeeding races will far sur
pass us and through the vistas open
ed up by theosophy, we can see the
lion lying down with the lamb and the
light of love and joy enfo,ding the
earth
Step by step, man rises to the source
| from which he came-to the Word
| that was God-plus all the experience
he has gathered on his pilgrimage; and
| thus gloriously endowed he passes
with those whom he has lifted up with
him into power and bliss beyond hu-
man concept. Man has re-become
| God.