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THE STRESS OF THE HIDDEN SPIRIT
morally on each other, because there is one self in all creatures expressing itself in various ideas and forms variously suitable to the idea. The stress of the hidden Spirit expresses itself again in events and the majestic course of the world. This is the Zeitgeist, this is the purpose that runs through the process of the centuries, the changes of the sups, this is tbat which makes evolution possible and provides it with a way, means and a goal. “This is He who from years sempiternal hath ordered perfectly all things."
This is the teaching of the Vedanta as we have it in its oldest form in the Upanishads. Adwaita, Vishishtadwaita, Dwaita are merely various ways of looking at the relations of the One to the Many, and none of them have the right to monopolise the name Vedanta. Adwaita is true, because the Many are only manifestations of the One, Vishishtadwaita is true because ideas are eternal and having manifested, must have manifested before and will manifest
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