And that seems to be the purpose of life—to purify and perfect these different agencies so that they will all be open, selfless channels, in order that the direction of the highest can be perfectly received by the lowest and the Divine Will may be done on earth even as in heaven.

NOW let us see what practical use can be made of this knowledge.

We have seen that all is consciousness, that there is only one consciousness, which we call the Consciousness of God or Divine Mind.

We have also seen that this Consciousness is more or less relayed down and expresses itself direct from Divine Mind even in the consciousness of the individual cells constituting the physical body. But we have learned that this can be done only when the human soul is pure and selfless enough, and then only through a human mind that is also selfless and under perfect control.

For know that just as the Spirit, or the Higher Self, expresses Itself only through the soul, so the soul expresses only through the human mind. But before the Higher Self from the soul can direct the human mind, or before the mind can consciously receive such direction, the soul must learn to co-operate with the Higher Self; and it can learn this only through growth gained from experience while expressing in a physical body, which means through the lessons learned and taught it through the human mind.

In other words, the human mind is the soul in expression on the physical plane—no more and no less; in expression there either for the experience needed—consciously needed by the soul, but unconsciously by the