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know what to do. But until we develop the faculty of direct, im-mediate vision into realities we shall not recognise these men. Deep calls to deep; our shallow minds may fail to recognise the deeps which we so glibly describe, yet know not.
"Ye knew him not: he was not one of ye, Ye scorned him with an undiscerning scorn: Ye could not read the marvel in his eye, The still serene abstraction: he hath felt The vanities of after and before; Albeit, his spirit and his secret heart The stern experiences of converse lives, The linked woes of many a fiery change Had purified, and chastened, and made free."
There follows a remarkable description of the four Kumaras, the "Regents of the Earth" whose existence is well known to eastern philosophy. And then:
"How could ye know him? Ye were yet within The narrower circle; he had wellnigh reached The last, which with a region of white flame, Pure without heat into a larger air Upburning, and an ether of black blue, Investeth and ingirds all other lives."
These men have the Absolute Moment, or an increasing sense of it. There is such a thing as the sacrament of the moment, and all should be offered to it. The higher consciousness is ever fetching back to the centre the wandering intellect which, for all its boast of seeking truth, will wrap up pieces of it and hide them away in splendid concepts, as a dog will bury a bone instead of eating it. "The will is
