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128 The Human Cyclein the luminous infinite, its special power is to realise the infinitein the finite, the eternal unity in all divisions and differences.Our spiritual evolution ascends therefore through the relativeto the absolute, through the finite to the infinite, through alldivisions to oneness. Man in his spiritual realisation begins tofind and seize hold on the satisfying intensities of the absolutein the relative, feels the large and serene presence of the infinitein the finite, discovers the reconciling law of a perfect unity inall divisions and differences. The spiritual will in his outer asin his inner life and formulation must be to effect a great reconciliationbetween the secret and eternal reality and the finiteappearances of a world which seeks to express and in expressingseems to deny it. Our highest faculties then will be those whichmake this possible because they have in them the intimate lightand power and joy by which these things can be grasped indirect knowledge and experience, realised and made normallyand permanently effective in will, communicated to our wholenature. The infrarational, on the other hand, has its origin andbasis in the obscure infinite of the Inconscient; it wells up ininstincts and impulses, which are really the crude and moreor less haphazard intuitions of a subconscient physical, vital,emotional and sensational mind and will in us. Its struggle istowards definition, towards self-creation, towards finding somefinite order of its obscure knowledge and tendencies. But it hasalso the instinct and force of the infinite from which it proceeds;it contains obscure, limited and violent velleities that move it tograsp at the intensities of the absolute and pull them down orsome touch of them into its finite action: but because it proceedsby ignorance and not by knowledge, it cannot truly succeedin this more vehement endeavour. The life of the reason andintelligent will stands between that upper and this nether power.On one side it takes up and enlightens the life of the instincts andimpulses and helps it to find on a higher plane the finite orderfor which it gropes. On the other side it looks up towards theabsolute, looks out towards the infinite, looks in towards theOne, but without being able to grasp and hold their realities;for it is able only to consider them with a sort of derivative and