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meditation is also a necessity, and the man who is born with a high
capacity for concentration is merely a man who has practised it in
previous lives. A life or lives of study and seclusion often precede
a life of tremendous and sustained activity in the physical world. The
realisation is preceded by control of the body, control of the emotions
and control of the mind, for the power to hold these in complete
stillness is necessary, if a man is to penetrate into those depths of
his own nature in which alone is to be found the shrine of the inner
God. The subtle music of that sphere is drowned by the clatter of the
lower bodies as the most exquisite notes of the V[=i][n.][=a] are lost
in the crude harsh sound of the harmonium. The Voice of the Silence can
only be heard in the silence, and all the desires of the heart must be
paralysed ere can arise in the tranquillity of senses and mind, the
glorious majesty of the Self. Only in the desert of loneliness rises
that Sun in all His glory, for all objects that might cloud His dawning
must vanish; only "when half-Gods go," does God arise. Even the outer
God must hide, ere the Inner God can manifest; the cry of agony of the
Crucified must be wrung from the tortured lips; "My God, my God, why
hast _Thou_ forsaken me?" precedes the realisation of the God
within.
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