In our life different parts of our being pull us in
different directions. This is a matter of daily occurrence, present in the
individual as well as in the collective social units or organisations. Each one
asserts its own claim, mind with its fixed thoughts and ideas and theories,
life-force quite often violently seeking the fulfilment of its desires, ambitions,
passions, body with its dark mass of inertia refusing to change or respond to
the higher gainful principle of aggregation and harmony. The longstanding
battle of life with matter finally leaves life in the hands of death; mind
itself has to fight against the incapacity and limitation of body, as well as
against the obsessions and cravings of life. Even when one rises beyond these,
there is the quarrel of the spirit denying them all, its own essential
instruments for growth. We witness only the spectacle of the war of the
members, each member with its own set objectives, they behaving like
independent fiduciary heads, they all leading to these thousand discordances.
This leads to weakness, one as if trying to defeat the other. We make new-year
resolutions, only to break them the next day. We will one thing and act in
another way; our actions do not corroborate our ideals, our visions, our
thoughts. Our impressive proposals and designs quite often lack the needed
infrastructure for their successful implementation; we say they are not
realistic and we make meaningless and absurd compromises. Ours is
But in the new creation founded in the house of the spirit there is perfection,
with harmony in perfection. Each one has its role to play and there are no
conflicts. A harmony is woven between soul and soul, time in the flow of
eternity acquires a divine character, there is concordance between act and
will, what thought conceives gets materialised as fact. Life rushes everywhere
in her joy, making in every activity of hers astounding discoveries. She
surprises thought by her new creations, compels the breathing heart to dare the
impossible, gives to truth a gleaming shape that it may express itself in a
myriad truths, truths in their joy and awareness and their widening possibilities.
No wonder “she never could exhaust its numberless thoughts and living dreams”.
Hers is an ardent hunt of soul looking for soul, hers a seeking and a finding
as of gods. They do seek and find; so must she.
Regarding life seeking perfection in the context of the
gnostic race that must appear here, let us read a passage from The Life Divine: (pp. 984-85)
As mind seeks for light, for the discovery of knowledge
and for mastery by knowledge, so life seeks for the development of its own
force and for mastery by force: its quest is for growth, power, conquest,
possession, satisfaction, creation, joy, love, beauty; its joy of existence is
in a constant self-expression, development, diverse manifoldness of action,
creation, enjoyment, an abundant and strong intensity of itself and its power.
The gnostic evolution will lift that to its highest and fullest expression, but
it will not act for the power, satisfaction, enjoyment of the mental or vital
ego, for its narrow possession of itself and its eager ambitious grasp on
others and on things or for its greater self-affirmation and magnified
embodiment; for in that way no spiritual fullness and perfection can come. The
gnostic life will exist and act for the Divine in itself and in the world, for
the Divine in all; the increasing possession of the individual being and the
world by the Divine Presence, Light, Power, Love, Delight, Beauty will be the
sense of life to the gnostic being. In the more and more perfect satisfaction
of that growing manifestation will be the individual's satisfaction: his power
will be the instrumentation of the power of Supernature for bringing in and
extending that greater life and nature; whatever conquest and adventure will be
there, will be for that only and not for the reign of any individual or
collective ego. Love will be for him the contact, meeting, union of self with
self, of spirit with spirit, a unification of being, a power and joy and
intimacy and closeness of soul to soul, of the One to the One, a joy of
identity and the consequences of a diverse identity. It is this joy of an
intimate self-revealing diversity of the One, the multitudinous union of the
One and a happy interaction in the identity, that will be for him the full
revealed sense of life. Creation aesthetic or dynamic, mental creation,
life-creation, material creation will have for him the same sense. It will be
the creation of significant forms of the Eternal Force, Light, Beauty,
Reality,—the beauty and truth of its forms and bodies, the beauty and truth of
its powers and qualities, the beauty and truth of its spirit, its formless
beauty of self and essence.