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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga690
laws, ethics, and things sociological, economical, theological, philosophical,
and metaphysical have been outgrown, and are about to be “shed” by the
race. The great cauldron of human thought is bubbling away fiercely, and
many things are rising to its surface. Like all great changes, the good will
come only with much pain—all birth is with pain. The race feels the pain and
perpetual unrest, but knows not what is the disease nor the remedy. Many
false cases of diagnosis and prescription are even now noticeable, and will
become still more in evidence as the years roll by. Many self-styled saviours
of the race—prescribers for the pain of the soul and mind—will arise and
fall. But out of it all will come that for which the race now waits.
The changes that are before us are as great as the changes in thought
and life described in the late novel by H. G. Wells, entitled “In the Days of
the Comet.” In fact, Mr. Wells has indicated in that story some of the very
changes that the advanced souls of the race have informed their students
are before the race—the prophetic insight of the writer named seems
marvelous, until one realizes that even that writer is being used as a part
of the mental machinery of The Change itself. But the change will not come
about by reason of the new gas caused by the brushing of the earth’s
surface by a passing comet. It will come from the unfolding of the race mind,
the process being now under way. Are not the signs of mental unrest and
discomfort becoming more and more apparent as the days go by? The pain
is growing greater, and the race is beginning to fret and chafe, and moan. It
knows not what it wants, but it knows that it feels pain and wants something
to relieve that pain. The old things are beginning to totter and fall, and ideas
rendered sacred by years of observance are being brushed aside with a
startling display of irreverence. Under the surface of our civilization we may
hear the straining and groaning of the ideas and principles that are striving
to force their way out on to the plane of manifestation.
Men are running hither and thither crying for a leader and a savior. They
are trying this thing, and that thing, but they find not that which they seek.
They cry for Satisfaction, but it eludes them. And yet all this search and