The Inner Life

work directly in the world of concepts and bring through (for the use of the race) the pattern ideas upon which they must build.

The world structure emerges from and is built upon certain inner thought patterns, and it is these thought patterns which are producing the present flood of governmental experiments in every nation. But today, there is no training in the art of contacting the world of patterns and in the true interpretation of ideas, and hence the problems. Later, when the race sees its problems with greater clarity, it will act with wisdom, and train its Observers and Communicators more carefully and perfectly.

These men and women will be those in whom the intuition has awakened at the behest of an urgent intellect; they will be the people whose minds are so subordinated to the group good and so free from all sense of separateness that their minds present no impediment to the contact with the world of reality and of inner truth. They will not necessarily be people who could be termed “religious” in the ordinary sense of that word, but they will be men of good will, of high mental calibre, with minds well stocked and equipped; they will be free from personal ambition and selfishness, animated by love of humanity and a desire to help the race. Such a man is a spiritual man.

IN THE world of religion we shall see the solution of the second problem, and the ridding of the human consciousness of another area of doubt. The fact of God will be established and men’s questioning in this respect will end. Such a God will not be a national or a racial God; not a Christian, Hindu or Buddhist deity. Such a God will not be a figment of man’s creative imagination or an extension of his own consciousness, but a deity of essential Life, who is the sum total of all energies—the energy of life itself, the energy of love, the energy of intelligence, of active experience, and the energy which produces the interplay between the seen and unseen. Such a God will most surely be transcendent but at the same time most assuredly immanent; a God of such immensity that the Heavens proclaim Him, and so intimate that the humblest child can recognize Him.

Not with the physical eye can Deity be seen, though the hall mark of divinity is everywhere. Yet there is an eye which can be developed and used and which will enable its possessor to see