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60 LIOHT ON THB PATH be put aside. Both are but mechanişn which will perish with the span of mai life. It is the essence beyond, that whi is the motive power, and makes man li that is now compelled to rouse itself a act. Now is the greatest hour of dang In the first trial men go mad with fe: of this first trial Bulwer Lytton wro No novelist has followed to the seco trial, though some of the poets have. subtlety and great danger lie in the that in the measure of a man's stren is the measure of his chance of pass heyond it or coping with it at all. If has power cnough to awaken that un customed part of himself, the supre essence, then has he power to lift Gates of Gold, then he is the truc alc mist, in possession of the elixir of life
It is at this point of experience t the Occultist fuccomics separated from other pen and enters on to a life-wi is his own; on to the path of indivic
