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IGHT ON THE PATH 65 This is one of the contradictions in life which, occur so constantly that they afford fuel to the fiction writer. The Occultist finds them become much more marked as he endeavours to live the life he has chosen. As he retreats within himself and becomes self-dependent, he finds himself more definitely becoming part of a great tide of definite thought and feeling. When he has learned the iirst lesson, conquered the hunger of the heart, and refused to live on the love of others, he finds hingself more capable of inspiring lovė. As he flings life away, it comes to him in a new form and with a new meaning. The world has always been a place with many contradictions in it to man; when he becomes a disciple he finds life is describable as a series of paradoxes. This is a fact in Nature, and the reason for it is intelligible enough. Man's soul "dwells like a star apart,” even that of the vilest among us; while his conscious
