Preface
It is a truism that the world stands today at the threshold of an entirely New Age. Life proceeds in cycles, never in an undeviating straight line. This great principle rules everywhere. There never was an evening that did not turn again to another morning, nor a winter that did not herald another spring. The "day" of a man's. life follows exactly the same sequence. The first arc of a man's life is of out-going, growth, adven-ture; the second arc is of returning, of slowly diminishing life-forces, of the setting-in of the peace of evening. This is not only true of a day, a year, a life-cycle, but is also true of the corporate life of each nation, civilization, planet, solar system, even of the illim-itable universe itself. This is the universal cyclic law, eternal motion, the rhythmic ebb and flow of all Nature. Hence, a nation reaches extinction and ceases to be, but the souls who lived in its ranks are born again in a new race. We can trace the colonizing, law-abiding Roman in the modern Briton, and the meticulous, artistic Greek in the Frenchman of today. The civilizations, which the nations promote and embody, have their great Day and pass away, and from their ashes arises a newer and a greater concept of life. The whole advancing consciousness of humanity passes through many such cycles, and in the process, though forms may be destroyed, the immortal life persists, and presently expresses resses itself anew. The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways. Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. One such cycle of approximately 2,000 years is closing now. Humanity is "a day's march nearer home". The signs of the close of a cycle are universal break-up, chaos, change, cataclysms. From these slowly emerges the outline of the new. For example, it is clear now that the age of isola-tion, of empires, of the domination of one nation by another, is past. The linking of the whole world by the wireless, the radio, television, the acroplane, etc., presages a dream of the poet Tennyson: "The parliament of man, the Fede-ration of the world." The New Age that is dawn-ing now will see the growth of the principle of co-operation between all nations and between all classes, and hence the end of war, and its other side, poverty, for the rest of the life of this planet.
About The Book
MORE and more Souls are seeking inwardly, trying to find the way to divine realization. It is man's destiny that one day he must learn to plunge into the mysterious depths of his own glorious being, for only there is to be found true wisdom and the real power to help. This mounting human need is being met on all hands today by numerous occult and mystical schools of thought, some of them sincere and true, and some less wise and not well-informed. It is to try to do my small part in helping this rising tide of seekers of Reality, wherever they may be, that I have written this book.
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