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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THERE are
two things that should not be confused with each other, namely, what one is and
what one does, what one is essentially and what one does in the outside world.
They are very different. I know what I am. And what others think or say or
whatever happens in the world, that truth remains unaffected, unaltered, a
fact. It is real to itself and the world's denial or affirmation does not
increase or diminish that reality. But being what I am, what I do actually is
altogether a different question: that will depend upon the conditions and
circumstances in which things are and in and through which I am to work. I know
the truth I bring, but how much of it finds expression in the world depends
upon the world itself. What I bring, the world must have the capacity and the
will to accept: otherwise even if I bring with me the highest and the most
imperative truth, it will be, absolutely as it were, non-existent for a
consciousness that does not recognise or receive it: the being with that
consciousness will not profit a jot by it.</p>

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will say if the truth I bring is supreme and omnipotent, why does it not compel
the world to accept it, why can it not break the world's resistance, force man
to accept the good it refuses? But that is not the way in which the world was
created nor the manner in which it moves and develops. The origin of creation
is freedom: it is a free choice in the consciousness that has projected itself
as the objective world. This freedom is the very character of its fundamental
nature. If the world denies its supreme truth, its highest good, it does so in
the delight of its free choice; and if it is to turn back and recognise that
truth and that good, it must do so in the same delight of free choice. If the
erring world was ordered to turn right and immediately did so, if things were
done in a trice, through<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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'>miracles,
there would be then no point in creating a world. Creation means a play of
growth: it is a journey, a movement in time and space through graded steps and
stages. It is a movement away – away from its source – and a movement towards:
that is the principle or plan on which it stands. In this plan there is no
compulsion on any of the elements composing the world to forswear its natural
movement, to obey to a dictate from outside: such compulsion would break the
rhythm of creation.<o:p></o:p></p>

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yet there is a compulsion. It is the secret pressure of one's own nature that
drives it forward through all vicissitudes back again to its original source.
When it is said that the Divine Grace can and should do all, it means nothing
more and nothing less than that: the Divine Grace only accelerates the process
of return and recognition. But on the side of the journeying element, the soul,
there must be awakened a conscious collaboration, an initial consent and a
constantly renewed adhesion. It is this that brings out, at least helps to establish
outside on the physical level, the force that is already and has always been at
work within and on the subtler and <i>higher </i>levels. That is the pattern of
the play, the system of conditions under which the game is carried out. The
Grace works and incarnates in and through a body of willing and conscious
collaborators; these <i>become themselves part </i>and parcel of the Force that
works.</p>

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truth I bring will manifest itself and will be embodied upon earth; for, it is
the earth's and world's inevitable destiny. The question of time is not
relevant. In one respect the truth which I say will be made manifest is already
fully manifest, is already realised and established: there is no question of
time there. It is in a consciousness timeless or eternally present. There is a
process, a play of translation between that timeless poise and the poise in
time that we know here below. The measure of that hiatus is very relative,
relative to the conscious-ness that measures, long or short according to the yardstick
each one brings. But that is not the essence of the problem: the essence is
that the truth is there active, in the process of <i>materialisation, </i>only
one should have the eye to see it and the soul to greet it.</p>

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