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<font size="4">The Divine Family</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>WHEN people,
far separated from one another, belonging to different parts of the world or
pursuing most diverse pro­fessions, meet and gather and work for a common
purpose, it means that they are kindred souls, and have met together and worked
together before in other lives. They felt they belonged to the same family and
resolved to act together and collaborate in a common endeavour for a common
ideal. Indeed, the souls, in their psychic reality, are grouped in big
families, as it were; they come down in groups again and again to take up and
carry on the work they are en aged in till it is complete.</p>

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a given moment, when the time is ripe, they are called up. The souls are like
children asleep, in the peace and repose of the psychic world, awaiting the
urge or order for another birth. As soon as the order is given, they wake up
and rush down towards the earth. When they drop thus into the earth's
atmosphere, they are no longer together, they are scattered about all over the
earth. One does not know even where one drops. Also once under the material
conditions and circum­stances here below, things take a very different aspect.
For, the inner impulse, the original purpose gets veiled; the psychic forgets
and is now surrounded and hedged in by forces, things and persons perhaps quite
foreign and contradictory to its nature. Now comes the labour of the soul, to
find itself, to look about for the lost end of the thread. The inner urge must
be strong enough, the original will categorical enough for the being to surmount
all obstacles, pass through all vicissitudes, work through all the windings of
a labyrinthine journey and finally arrive. Some perhaps do not arrive at all in
a particular life or arrive only to stop at a distance: others arrive not in</p>

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line, but, as I have said, after a tortuous and round­about wandering. In other
words, in their external mind and impulsion, they look for other things, they
are interested in objects that are far. other than the soul's interest – like
the person who enquired of Yoga, as she thought a Yogi could</p>

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beauty. And yet the soul makes use of such trivial or absurd means to turn the
man towards itself, guide him gradually to the place or the family to which he
really belongs.</p>

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material world is full of things that draw you away from your soul's quest,
from approaching your home. Normally you are tossed about by the forces of
ignorant Nature and you are driven even to do the worst stupidities. There is
but one solution, to find your psychic being; and once you have found it, cling
to it desperately and not to allow yourself to be drawn out by any temptation,
any other impulsion whatsoever.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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