The Theosophist. May 1904

It had its use and its place in these earlier stages ; as one of the Masters of Wisdom once put' it ; " The law of the survival of the fittest is the law of evolution for the brute ; but the law of intelligent self-sacrifice is the law of development for man." So it comes that man needs to transcend what was formerly his nature and to build into hiself the quality of unselfishness the quality [...] Perfection is possible for us because immortality is a fact ; we have all eternity before us in which to work and yet we have no time to lose ; for the sooner we begin to live the life of the Christ the sooner we are in position to do the work of the Christ and to range ourselves among the Saviours and the helpers of the world. [...] The repeated collision of pain and pleasure of sorrow and joy of good and its opposite and the consequent growth of character on lines of geometrical proportion until the highest purest and noblest we are able to conceive is attained ; and we have before us a picture and a pattern which it behoves each of us to realise ; and also of the high purpose of the ages in regard to all the sons of [...] Think of the impossibiity of the task and of the inadequacy of the time for the regenertion of this vast and on the whole degraded and sinful mass of 4474 The Theosophist. [...] The first idea in relation to the resurrection is completion and finality ; and from the point of view of our earthly limitations of expansion of being of freedom of entrance upon the real life of consummation of our destiny ; of complete deliverance from the burdensome clog of flesh with its conditions of mortal existence and entrance into the glorious regions of Immortality ; and also of a