Through this all Mystics pass who are needed for great service in the
world, those whom Mr. Bagshot so acutely calls "materialised Mystics".
The Mystics who find God outside themselves are the "unmaterialised"
Mystics, and they serve the world in the ways above mentioned; but the
other, as Mr. Bagshot points out, transmute their mystic thought into
"practical energy," and these become the most formidable powers known in
the physical world. All that is based on injustice, fraud and wrong may
well tremble when one of these arises, for the Hidden God has become
manifest, and who may bar His way?
Such Mystics wear none of the outer signs of the "religious"--their
renunciation is within, not without, there is no parade of outer
holiness, no outer separation from the world; Janaka the King,
K[r.][s.]h[n.]a the Warrior-Statesman, are of these; clothed in cotton
cloth or cloth of gold, it matters not; poor or rich, it boots not;
failing or succeeding, it is naught, for each apparent failure is the
road to fuller success, and both are their servants, not their masters;
victory ever attends them, to-day or a century hence is equal, for
they live in Eternity, and with them it is ever To-day. Possessing
nothing, all is theirs; holding everything, nothing belongs to them.
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