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LIGHT ON THE PATH
the doors of the soul, are gigantic tasks, and may take the sacrifice of many.successive incarnations. And yet, when the will has reached its strength, the whole miracle may be worked in a second of time. Then is the disciple the servant of Time no longer.
These first two steps are negative ; that is to say, they imply retreat from a present condition of things, rather than advance towards another. The next two are active, implying the advance into another state of being.
