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PATH OF GRACE
Our personality, which is being built up each instant with its accumulated experience, changes without ceasing. By changing, it prevents any state, although superficially identical with another, from ever repeating it in its very depth. That is why our “Time” is irreversible.
The finished portrait is explained by the features of the model, by the nature of the artist, by the colours spread out on the palette; but, even with the knowledge of what explains it, no one, not even the artist, could have foreseen exactly what the portrait would be, for to predict it would have been to produce it before it was produced--an absurd hypothesis which is its own refutation. Even so with regard to the yatra we have performed in the various knots. The conditions there are in fact moments of our life, of which we are the artisans. Each of the condition we have owned is a kind of creation.
These creations give the impetus in the higher region for growth and development in the astral plane. The work done here alone works. There is no scope for work in the higher region there
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