The Aryan Path January 1948

It is the world of The Great Illusion." It is true that H. P. B. is here speaking of the Astral Light which is as she often stated only the lowest level or correlate of the trite Akasha But the principle is the same and in point of fact none but he who bestrides the Middle Path can ever soar so high as the true Akasha. [...] Sufism seeks a direct personal experience of God ; renunciation of the self and the turning of the face to God is the beginning of the Way which will end in spiritual perfection and the life in God which means a life of service to one's fellow-men. [...] In truth we ourselves are the chief witness to Him...but as the bat sees only at night when the light is veiled by the darkness and cannot see in the datime because of the weakness of its sight which is dazzled by the full light of the sun so the human mind is too weak to behold the full glory of the Divine Majesty. [...] By the pressure of public opinion international coventions and the possible expansion of the jurisdiction of the Interntional Court of Justice the world may increasingly be brought to greater uniformity in adopting the guarantees of civil liberty inherent in the desires of all peoples everwhere. [...] This will result not merely in corecting the exaggerated importance accorded to it in particular and to the intellect in general but in tranforming the system of education itself the emphasis falling on the liberation of the mind from all coditioning and the possession of a dynamic faith in the realization of eternal values.