The Advent. November 1944

For them the calm the light the power the bliss the freedom the wideness the heights of knowledge the seas of Ananda. [...] But when these intuitions and illuminations grow in insistence and canalise themselves make a strong inner formation and claim to govern the whole life and take over the nature then there begins the spiritual formation of the being there emerges the saint the devotee the spiritual sage the seer the prophet the servant of God the soldier of the spirit." (The Life Divine Vol. [...] But this takes into account only the law and the love and does not see that law may itself be a form of Love and the restoration of law may involve a recovery of love that establishes the real and true understanding of the status of the creature in the scheme of Divine Harmony. [...] The revelation of the divine mystery in the depths of the Divine and spiritual life of the inner passionate divine thirst and longing for the other self the other self which may be the object of a great and infinite love on the part of God and that infinite thirst for reciprocity and love on the part of the other self determines for the deep christian consciousness the very principle of movement [...] The value of the experience of God's suffering for our sake is inestimable truly and may help the surrender of man to Him but in the ultimate analysis the goal of man is something that is different and that is the fullest attaiment of the beatific status in God and for God.