headlong into a new world of beauty and delight.
And then–there is no darkness in life’s skies,
No night, dear God, no night,
For listening ever to life’s glorious song,
All earth is light–light–light.
He who fasts and goes only as far as the Novitiate Fast does well and he need not be condemned by his own mind, nor hurry to force himself on into the Illuminati Fast; Eternity is a long time and the race need not hurry. It may take an even pace and still short cut a million years of experience, expression and inclusion; but to the one who is ready and who comes with an unfaltering determination to go on up the steeps of the highest experiences, willing even to short cut those who are on the Novitiate’s short cut, these can come into the Illuminati Fast with fearless hearts. The past, the present and the future are one, and they must be made one in every consciousness some time, somewhere. Somewhere we must face ourselves and all the actions and reactions of our many desires.
Through the mighty years, with a million fears,
We have waited silently so,
It must bring our own when the night is flown,–
It must let the dawn come through.
There is nothing in all the mighty past of which we need be afraid. After all, we cannot face anything but our own desires; why should we fear in the now the things which our souls loved in the forgotten past? The brave soul longs for freedom, balance, more than for any-
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