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LIGIT ON THE PATH 67 silent soul awakes, it makes the ordinary life of the man more purposeful, more vital, more real and responsible. To keep to the two instances already men. tioned: the Occultist who has withdrawn into his own citadel has found his strength; immediately he becomes aware of the demands of duty, upon him. He does not obtain his strength dy his own right, but because he is a part of the whole; and as soon as he is safe from the vibration of life and can stand unshaken, the outer world cries out to him to come and labour in it. So with the heart. When it no longer wishes to take, it is called upon to give abundantly. Light ON THE PATH has been called a book of paradoxes, and very justly; what else could it be, when it deals with the actual personal experi. ence of the disciple ?
To have acquired the dstral senses of sight and hearing; or, in other words, to have attained perception and opened
