ance of negation and the reality of power. It is in vain that we try to fight against, or to ignore, this rhythmic alternation of contrary notions. If we carefully embody it in our daily study, it becomes to us a source of constant power, like the movement of our lungs. If we forget it, it never forgets to sweep our work away. Unless it has helped to build the mind, their labour is but lost that built it. It is vain that we haste to rise early, and late take rest, and devour many carefully compiled text-books; to those who love the Invisible, Formless, alternate-beating Unity, the knowledge which is power comes even during sleep.[1]
CHAPTER XX
TRINITY MYTHS
"Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts."
In very old times, wise men devised a special method for counteracting the dangers of specialization, a standard test by which a student could judge whether his mode of recuperation was suited to the nature of his special dangers. Their method rested on a perception of the fact that man is so organized as to perceive the Divine in three principal modes:—
1. By the study of Nature, of the work of Creation, the most interesting part of which, to early peoples, was the observation of the Starry Heavens. God, as Creator, was called by Indians Brahma, by Semitic peoples Elohim, by Christians God the Father.
