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LIPHT ON THE PATH 37 bowerful heredity of habit. No one now is aware that he has ever done it at all; just as we cannot recollect the individual movements which enabled us to walk up a hill a year ago. This arises from the fact that we move and live and have our being in matter. Our knowledge of it has become intuitive.
With our astral life it is very much otherwise. For long years påst, man has paid very little attention to it--so little that he has practically lost the use of his senses. It is true, in every civiliza. tion the star' arises and man confesses, with more or less of folly and confusion, that he knows himself to be. But most often he denies it, and in being a materi. alist becomes that strange being, a beirlg which cannot see its own light, a thing of life which will not live, an astral animal which has eyes, and cars, and speech, and power, yet will use none of these gifts. This is the case, and the habit of
