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64 Light on the PATH the face of the earth, however splendid the bloom may have been. And it is left to the individual to make this great effort; to refuse to be terrified by his greater nature, to refuse to be drawn back by his lesser or more material self. Every individual who accomplishes this is a re. deemer of the race. He may not blazon forth his deeds, he may dwell in secret and silence, but it is a fact that he forms a link between man and his divine part; between the known and the unknown; be. tween the stir of the market-plaçe and the stillness of the snow-capped Himalayas. He has not to go about among men in order to form this link; in the astral he is that link, and this fact •rfiakes him a being of another order from the rest of mankind. Even so early on the road towards knowledge, when he has but taken the secand step, he finds his footing · more certain, and becomes conscious that he is a recognized part of a whole.
