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66 The Human Cycleof its individuals may travel towards this divine perfection. Itmust be, secondly, as mankind generally more and more growsnear to some figure of the Divine in life and more and more menarrive at it, — for the cycles are many and each cycle has its ownfigure of the Divine in man, — to express in the general life ofmankind, the light, the power, the beauty, the harmony, the joyof the Self that has been attained and that pours itself out in afreer and nobler humanity. Freedom and harmony express thetwo necessary principles of variation and oneness, — freedomof the individual, the group, the race, coordinated harmony ofthe individual’s forces and of the efforts of all individuals inthe group, of all groups in the race, of all races in the kind,— and these are the two conditions of healthy progression andsuccessful arrival. To realise them and to combine them has beenthe obscure or half-enlightened effort of mankind throughout itshistory, — a task difficult indeed and too imperfectly seen andtoo clumsily and mechanically pursued by the reason and desiresto be satisfactorily achieved until man grows by self-knowledgeand self-mastery to the possession of a spiritual and psychicalunity with his fellow-men. As we realise more and more the rightconditions, we shall travel more luminously and spontaneouslytowards our goal and, as we draw nearer to a clear sight of ourgoal, we shall realise better and better the right conditions. TheSelf in man enlarging light and knowledge and harmonising willwith light and knowledge so as to fulfil in life what he has seen inhis increasing vision and idea of the Self, this is man’s source andlaw of progress and the secret of his impulse towards perfection.Mankind upon earth is one foremost self-expression of theuniversal Being in His cosmic self-unfolding; he expresses, underthe conditions of the terrestrial world he inhabits, the mentalpower of the universal existence. All mankind is one in its nature,physical, vital, emotional, mental and ever has been inspite of all differences of intellectual development ranging fromthe poverty of the Bushman and negroid to the rich cultures ofAsia and Europe, and the whole race has, as the human totality,one destiny which it seeks and increasingly approaches in thecycles of progression and retrogression it describes through the