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 all impurities and the magnet of the Lord then attracts the needle of the mind. Instantly superconsciousness comes and is followed by God- vision. A man may make thousands of attempts, but nothing can be accomplished without the mercy

of the Lord. Without His mercy no one can see Him. Nor is it an easy thing to obtain His mercy. The egotistic sense of "I" which says: "I am the doer," must be abandoned entirely before the Divine mercy can be felt. So long as there is a steward in charge of the storehouse, if any come to the master and beg him, saying: "Master, wilt thou not come to the storehouse and give me this thing?" he will reply: "The steward is there, what need have I to go?" In like manner, so long as the ego thinks of himself as the "doer" and the master of the store- house of the heart, the Real Master does not enter, there. The mercy of the Lord is the surest way to God-vision. He is the sun of wisdom. A single ray of this Eternal Sun il- lumines this world, and by that light we are con-

scious of ourselves and of one another and we acquire various kinds of knowledge. If He turns that light towards His