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THE STAR IN THE WEST
immortality.
Our port to reach is that divinity which
abides in us , mud -bound though it be in the clay of its
surroundings ,
for
as
Lamartine said
:
“
Humanity
is
as
a
weaver working
on
the reverse
of
the web
of
Time
.
One
day will
come
when
passing
to
the other
side
,
she will behold the wonder
and beauty she has woven
,
in
the
place
of
the
loose
threads
and
knots
of
the
reverse
.”
That day God will
be
manifested
.
The secret theurgy
of
the ages
is
neither science
,
nor
ethics
,
philosophy
,
nor religion
;
for
it
is
the science
,
the ethics
,
the philosophy
,
the religion
of
all
times
,
and when manifest
in
the heart
of
the adept
,
the full
blaze
of
a
divine
glory will
descend
,
life will
be
van
quished
,
and the soul
set free
.
To attain
to
this freedom
is
the end
of
life
;
in
this
respect both yogi and mystic
agree
,
and that every
thing which
entails
the loss
of
freedom
is
sin
,
there
fore change
is
sin
and illusion
,
maya
,
and our great
object
is
to
get beyond
this
changeable
changeability
into
an
unchangeable
changelessness
.
The yogi
proposes
to
himself
no
less
a
task than
to
master
the
entire
universe
,
and
finding that
the
mind has the reflexive
power
of
looking back into
its
own
depths
,
does
his
utmost
to
develop
this
power
by
turning the mind
,
as
it
were
,
by
artificial
means
,
inside
on
itself
,
concentrating
all
its
powers
on
itself
,
and stopping
it
at
every turn from wandering outside
of
itself
.
Then
the
mind
,
slowly learning
its
own
nature
,
analyzes
itself
and
discovers
the
Divinity
which
is
itself
.
And
I
have ceased
to
think
!
That
is,
have conquered
and made still
Mind's lower powers
by
utter Will
.?
1
The Sword
of
Song
,
Pentecost
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
177
.