UNION IS STRENGTH

and recreating its body ; and then, having realized this for a moment, suddenly to get back to one's own place within it, and thereafter to remember that the truth about one's Self and about ail other Selves is a twofold nature, outwardly belonging to the order which is temporary, and highly differentiated, inwardly belonging to the one life which is etemal, and profotmdly unified. This vision is the vision of Equality ; this, the expérience of Equality ; and to be obedient, in one's relations to others, to this perceived Truth of things is to live according to the law of Equality.

Who shall be that spirit of deep fulûlment, Himself self-centred ; yet evermore from that centre Over the world expanding, along ail créatures Loyally passing — ^with love, in perfect equality ? ^

And " herein is my strength." For this inward movement which issues in the expérience of Equality, the Consciousness in the first unity, plants the roots of personal life deeper, delivers a man from the tyranny of greed and the lust of extemal gains, secures him from the harassing and exhausting oppositions and struggles of the merely compétitive existence, since, in equal union with ail, he does not lose by that which another takes into his possession, and gains by that which others win or receive.

The same movement unités the individual with other lives in ail directions, not so much as link