has hitherto held this relation to her because she had conceived of It only in this way and had thus provided It only with such conditions as compelled It to exhibit Itself in this form.

Now she learns that these conditions are not imposed by the Universal Principle Itself, but that it must of necessity follow that line of expression which each particular individuality opens up for It; and when this is clearly perceived, with all the consequences that flow from it, the soul finds that she is no longer a slave but is in perfect Liberty, and that her relation to the Great Mind is that of a beloved wife, guarded, honoured, and treated on terms of equality.

This is the truth illustrated, as St Paul tells us, in the allegory of Sarah and Hagar. Hagar, the slave, is expelled, and Sarah, the Princess, takes her place. These two symbolical women, like the two "women" of Revelation, indicate two opposite conditions of the soul; and similarly their "sons", like the offspring of those two other "women", represent the respective powers which these two conditions of soul generate --- the one living in the wilderness of secondary causes and becoming an archer --- that is, relying upon the use of external means, not understanding the true nature of causation, and therefore dependent for his results upon just happening to make a good shot, and often making very bad ones --- the other,