be that of a self-inherent activity which is forever building up.

When anyone is thus intellectually enlightened, he has reached that stage of development which is signified by the name David: he is "beloved" --- that is to say, he is exercising a specific individual attraction towards the Spirit in its universal and undifferentiated mode.

Evolution

We are here dealing with the Principle of Evolution in its highest phases, and if we keep this in mind it becomes clear that the intellectual man who perceives this is himself the evolving principle manifesting at that stage where it becomes an individuality capable of understanding its own identity with the Spiritual Force which, by Self-evolution, produces all things. He thus realises himself to be the Reciprocal of the Universal Mind, which is the Divine Spirit, and he sees that his reciprocity consists in Evolution having reached in him the point where that factor is developed which cannot have a place in the Universal Mind as such, but without which the continuation of Evolution in its highest phases is impossible --- the factor, namely, of individual will. We lose the key to the whole teaching of the Bible if we lose sight of the truth that the Universal cannot, as such, initiate a course of action on the plane of the particular. It can do so only by becoming the individual, which is precisely the production of the intellectually enlightened man we are speaking about. The