suffer in the course of educating the lower principles into self-recognition and spontaneous compliance with the true Law of the Individuality in its Wholeness!

Then we see that it is only by the infinite persistence of the Spirit in its struggle towards perfecting the vehicles of its Self-expression that the Individuality in all its completeness can ever be brought to maturity and the crown set to the work of Evolution which commenced far back in the dim unfathomable past. We realise St Paul's meaning in saying that the Spirit groans with unutterable groanings, for it is that principle which St John tells us cannot sin (1 John 3:9 and 5:18), that is, cannot act contrary to the true Law of Being; and thus a peculiar emphasis is set on the injunctions "Grieve not the Spirit" [Eph. 4:30 --- Ed.], "Quench not the Spirit" [1 Thess. 5:19 --- Ed.], for the Individualised Spirit is the intensely Living Centre of ourselves --- the I AM that I Myself AM in every one of us.

Natural Education

The question of the ultimate consciousness of the individuality under the outward semblance of unconsciousness, as in trance, or under the conditions induced by hypnotism or anaesthetics, involves problems of a scientific character which I hope to have an opportunity of discussing on another occasion; but even supposing there is no such latent consciousness of suffering as I have suggested, we may well transfer the whole description of the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah to the conscious sufferings of the outer man. That, at any