THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE

444 The Harmony of VirtueIIIMankind hath hitherto placed God too far above man for eachto approach the other. But on the identity of the human with thedivine shall rest the foundation of the coming ages of humanity.*In His ascent of evolution God moveth not only from successto success, for he often useth victory and defeat, honourand dishonour as the twin processes of an efflorescent movement.*The New Yoga begins where all efforts at personal salvationend, where the self of the individual consecrates itself tothe self of Humanity and proceedeth to realise an individual life.*The Pentecostal showers of inspiration descend upon himwho worketh unceasingly for God, not upon him who waitethactionless for inspiration to come and move him to action.*Only when the gorgeous temples of the Earth have ceasedto monopolise our God, and He is realised in the flight of thesparrow and the mattock of the labourer that leavening of humanityshall begin.*Not in the eager rushing of the senses towards the objectsof the earth but in the spiritual enjoyment of sense objects, consisteththe bhoga of the integral Yogin.*