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“ If we do not heed them then they change, they seem to be with us, they open up vistas of all we and they will do, when this new power we strive for is attained.
If we are tempted down that vista we find with shame after an hour of vain musing that we were lured away, had deserted our task and forgotten that stern fixity of the will we set out to achieve.
Let us persevere in our daily ritual and the turmoil increases; our whole being becomes vitalised, the bad as well as the good. ”

“ None would live through that turmoil if the will were the only power in ourselves we could invoke, for the will is neither good nor bad but is power only, and it vitalises good or bad indifferently.
If that were all our labour would bring us, not closer to divine being, but only to a dilation of the personality.
But the ancients who taught us to gain this intensity taught it but as preliminary to a meditation which would not waver and would be full of power.
The meditation they urged on us has been explained as "the inexpressible yearning of the inner man to go out into the infinite." ”

“ As the dark bar of metal begins to glow, at first redly, and then at white heat, or as ice melts and is alternately fluid, vapour, gas, and at last a radiant energy, so do these æthers become purified and alchemically changed into luminous essences, and they make a new vesture for the soul, and link us to mid-world or heavenward where they too have their true home. ”