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There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust contraries and to produce final harmony. It is owing to this law of spiritual development superseding the physical and purely intellectual, that mankind will become freed from its false gods, and find itself finally — ''SELF-REDEEMED''. | There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust contraries and to produce final harmony. It is owing to this law of spiritual development superseding the physical and purely intellectual, that mankind will become freed from its false gods, and find itself finally — ''SELF-REDEEMED''. | ||
In its final revelation, the old myth of Prometheus — his ''proto- ''and ''anti''-types being found in every ancient theogony — stands in each of them at the very origin of physical evil, because at the threshold of human physical life. {{Style S-Small capitals|Kronos}} is “ Time,” whose first law is that the order of the successive and harmonious phases in the process of evolution during cyclic development should be strictly preserved — under the severe penalty of abnormal growth with all its ensuing results. It was not in the programme of natural development that man — higher animal though he may be — should become at once — intellectually, spiritually, and psychically — the demi-god he is on earth, while his physical frame remains weaker and more helpless and ephemeral than that of almost any huge mammal. The contrast is too grotesque and violent ; the tabernacle much too unworthy of its indwelling god. The gift of Prometheus thus became a curse — though ''foreknown ''and ''foreseen ''by the host personified in that personage, as his name well shows. * It is in this that rests, at one and the same time, | In its final revelation, the old myth of Prometheus — his ''proto- ''and ''anti''-types being found in every ancient theogony — stands in each of them at the very origin of physical evil, because at the threshold of human physical life. {{Style S-Small capitals|Kronos}} is “ Time,” whose first law is that the order of the successive and harmonious phases in the process of evolution during cyclic development should be strictly preserved — under the severe penalty of abnormal growth with all its ensuing results. It was not in the programme of natural development that man — higher animal though he may be — should become at once — intellectually, spiritually, and psychically — the demi-god he is on earth, while his physical frame remains weaker and more helpless and ephemeral than that of almost any huge mammal. The contrast is too grotesque and violent ; the tabernacle much too unworthy of its indwelling god. The gift of Prometheus thus became a {{Style S-Small capitals|curse}} — though ''foreknown ''and ''foreseen ''by the host personified in that personage, as his name well shows. * It is in this that rests, at one and the same time, | ||
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How incontestable the strength of Fate . . . . (105)}} | How incontestable the strength of Fate . . . . (105)}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|“ Fate ” stands here for Karma, or ''Nemesis.''}} | {{Style P-No indent|“ Fate ” stands here for {{Style S-Small capitals|Karma}}, or ''Nemesis.''}} | ||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Mankind is obviously divided into god-informed men and lower human creatures. The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called. The “ sacred spark ” s missing in them and it is they who are the only ''inferior ''races on the globe, now happily — owing to the wise adjustment of nature which ever works in that direction — fast dying out. Verily mankind is “ of one blood,” ''but not of the same essence. ''We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> Mankind is obviously divided into god-informed men and lower human creatures. The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called. The “ sacred spark ” s missing in them and it is they who are the only ''inferior ''races on the globe, now happily — owing to the wise adjustment of nature which ever works in that direction — fast dying out. Verily mankind is “ of one blood,” ''but not of the same essence. ''We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent. | ||