Rout or passage

Evidently, the efforts required as one or the other path is elected are of different nature and quality. For the first one proceeds from the visible and sensible surface of the world and its animate and inanimate parts and beings and seeks to understand their workings and to establish with them all the best possible and profitable relations, while the second begins with an awareness of the immanent inner presence and works at making the whole outer being conscious of it, so it can be illumined and transformed by it.

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Evolution upon earth has entered a precipitous mode; it is not merely a matter of rapidity, but also of simultaneity: all the questions confront us at once and the consequences of all our actions are arising at the same time, in the same space and for all of us together.

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Everyone can verify that each individual choice inevitably and naturally draws material and psychological effects or consequences.

There and thus it is that one can begin to measure and acknowledge the illusion of separation.

For it is in fact impossible to make the least motion without causing, influencing, altering or contributing to an array of factors

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