The Aryan Path April 1937

Carrying the same analogy—the same history—into the world metaphysical the genesis of mental existence begins with fecundation of the child consciousness by the impact of the idea of Self thence the same process of division segmentation multiplication out of the enveloing mass of psychological material until we have the normal racmind. [...] He who holds to this conception in his heart as the mother holds the earthly seed in the adytum of organic existence—shall he not feel the quickening of the Spirit within in the course of time " ? Who that studies History who that observes Life can fail to see what one upon this path of discovery once happily called " the Uplift of Heroes " ? The accessible records pertaining to the divine In [...] The process is described in Shvetc7shwtara Upanishad with the aid of a meaphor taken from the production of fire by the friction of two sticks :-- Having made one's body (the lower self) the lower fire-stick and the Pranava (the symbol of the Light of consciouness) the upper by the friction of cotinued practice (abhyasa) of meditation one should see the God hidden within. [...] What is of earth in a man returns to the earth what is of the water returns to water what is of the fire returns to fire and what is of the air returns to the air. [...] The latter comes to know that all life is divine that there is nothing but the divine ; he watches the play of life or the evolution of the world and knows that for fuller even unto cosmic awareness of it there must be discipline of the lesser that the greater may come to be.