He who chooses the path of Being must always be ready to accept the unexpected, as well as knowing how to welcome the miraculous: one must have faith. Faith is the unquestionable and intuitive sensation, even if intellectually inexplicable, that makes us realize that we are surrounded by an infinite Possibility in which everything is as it should be.
Most people are deaf to the call of the Spirit, they are narrow and refuse to hear and see, so involved in the frenetic agitation of the surface, generating fears, including the false masochistic belief that the world is a scenario of cruelty and suffering.
Repetition is necessary, because the individual who advances—or who might retreat—on this path oscillates passively between the alternating movements of the evolutionary wave.
Cycles come and go. One self succeeds another self, and although the Soul by which they are fed and to which they are bound by magnetic threads is on guard to establish a closer bond between these masks, these successive personalities respond feebly. The fire of divine will burns dimly in their tepid emotions never truly lived fully, or it rages, but for a moment, then fades, overwhelmed by the surrounding mediocrity, unable to carry out a hesitant and feeble commitment. Then it must begin all over again, alas, repeating so often the past that has left so many things unfinished.
Sometimes, it is difficult for circles to transform into spirals! They can only do so if centrifugal force acts promptly to overcome the inertia of circular motion; that force is the will contained in the Fire of Being: it is the will that each successive beginning must be a new beginning, a fresh and original emanation, an exciting feeling of new potentiality.
The worst defeat is that which occurs through monotony and repetitiveness; yet the Possibilities of man are infinite. When Christians repeat: “With God all things are possible,” what they do is personalize this infinity of the Spirit. In every experience a possibility is always present, but the individual must be responsive and responsible by holding his own will. His hand holds the sword, but the Spirit will move the hand if his consxiousness is ready, open, receptive, willing to abandon itself, surrendered to a larger Will. Then the target will be hit. A crossing full of impossible possibilities!
It is probably a difficult crossing to undertake, unless, in some way or other, the aspirant has been prepared for it by vocation, or by those who have already passed over and who, after leaving instructions dictated by experience, watch over and are ready to offer guidance and perhaps assistance, even if hidden and invisible to the traveler.
However, while receiving sure help, the traveler must make the crossing alone; it is he who must fight unconscious suffering, stem the powerful currents of mental, psychic and material entropy, and deal with great weariness, loneliness, and an insidious sense of nothingness and uselessness.
When required, and with responsibility, he must accept Reality and overcome the tension of his tense nerves that are sizzling and ready to explode.
Once the soul is calmed, Essence is nourished, then a candid desire to be to serve the Divine for the Divine emerges and becomes the goal of every individual awakened to Reality.
And then the chosen one can Serve Life by spreading the influence of his tormented genius.
