fluence is so difficult that compara-
tively few men succeed in striking the
balance between two divergent tend-
encies.

A man gets power and knowledge
from his time in the degree in which
he suffers it to enlarge and vitalise
him; he loses power and knowledge
in the degree in which he suffers it to
limit his vision and confine his inter-
ests. The Time Spirit is the greatest
of our teachers so long as it is the in-
terpreter of the Eternal Spirit; it is
the most fallible and misleading of
teachers when it attempts to speak
for itself. The visible and material
things by which we are surrounded
are of immense helpfulness so long as
they symbolise invisible and spiritual
things; they become stones of stum-
bling and rocks of offence when they
are detached from the spiritual order

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