The Masters and The Path

That Life of God permeates the whole of nature which is but the many-coloured cloak which He has donned ; it is He who lives in the beauty of the flower in the strength of the tree in the swiftness and grace of the animal as well as in the heart and soul of man. [...] This descent of the ego is symbolised in ancient mythology by the Greek idea of the Crater or Cup and by the medimval story of the Holy Grail ; for the Grail or the Cup is the perfected result of all that lower evolution into which is poured the wine of the Divine Life so that the soul of man may be born. [...] THE PHYSICAL BODIES OF THE MASTERS 31 GROUND PLAN OF THE WESTERN HALF OF THE HOUSE OF THE MASTER KUTHUMI32 THE MASTERS AND THE PATH The library is a fine room containing thousands of volumes. [...] There is the deep bourdon of the sea the sighing of the wind in the trees the roar of the mountain torrent the music of stream river and waterfall which together with many others form the mighty song of Nature as she lives. [...] If we walk up the road on the left bank of the stream rising gradually along the side of the valley we pass on the right the house and grounds of the Master Kuthumi and further up the hill we find on the same side of the road a small but or cabin which He who is now the Master Djwal Kul constructed for Himself with His own hands in the days of His pupilage in order that He might have an abidin