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160 things find their secret truth and their absolute reconciliation.

All truth of works must depend upon the truth of - being. All active existence must be in its inmost reality n sacrifice of works offered by Prakriti to Purusha, Nature offering to the supreme and infinite Soul the desire of the multiple finite Soul within her. Lifeisan altar to which she brings her workings and the fruits of her workings and lays them before whatever aspect of the Divinity the consciousncss in her has reached for whatever result of the sacrifice the desire of the living ‘'soul can seize on as its immediate or its highest good. According to the grade of consciousness and being which the soul has reached in Nature, will be the Divinity it worships, the delight which it seeks and the hope for which it sacrifices. And in the movement of the mutable Purusha in nature all is and must be inter- change ; for existence is one and its divisions must found themselves on some law of mutual dependence, each growing by each and living by all. 'Where sacrifice is not willingly given, Nature exacts it by force, she satis- fies the law of her living. A mutual giving and receiv- ing is the law of Life without which it cannot for one moment endure, and this fact is the stamp of the divine creative Will on the world it has manifested in its being, the proof that with sacrifice as their eternal companion the Lord of creatures has created all th:se - existences. ~ The universal law of sacrifice is the sign that the world ‘ is of God and belongs to God and that life is his domi- nion and house of worship and not a field for the self- l satisfaction of the independent ego ; not the fulfilment of the ego,—that is only cur crude and’ cbscure beginning,