rate, is a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief", and the reason of these sufferings is the want of Wholeness; they are the result of trying to live only in one portion of our nature --- and that the lower --- instead of in the Whole, and consequently these sufferings will continue until we realise that even balance of all parts of our nature which alone constitutes true individuality, or that which is without division.

By the buffeting of experience, the lower personality is being continually driven to inquire more and more into the reason of its sufferings, and as it grows in intelligence, it sees that they always result from some wilful or ignorant infraction of the Law of Things-as-they-are, as distinguished from Things-as-they-look; and so by degrees the lower personality grows into union with the higher personality, which itself is the Law of Things-as-they-are become Personal, until at last the two are found to be ONE, and the Perfected Man stands forth Whole.

This is the process to which the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews refers when he says that "though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered", thus indicating a course of education which can only apply to a personality whose evolution is not yet completed. But by these sufferings of the lower personality the salvation of the entire individuality is at length accomplished for, being thus led to study the Law of the Whole, the