Within the Yoga student there is always the spirit of adventure which comes, not as a pioneer exploring uncharted seas and land, but in the form of an approach to the uncharted seas and lands of knowledge. In other words, he is a pioneer or explorer into the realms of Truth.
As the student progresses in his study and in his quest for knowledge, he is given access to a newer type of information. He becomes conscious of a progression of thought which carries him into the solar intelligence, and he finds that he is able to advance into the consciousness of the future. In his instruction periods of observation the student often is shown the things that are to be.
The student sees nature’s movements and manifestations in the form of a pronouncement, a something which IS; and he is shown the development of a newer type of individual which is becoming. The future man, responding to his aspiration for truth and knowledge, will become a being whose mind will be individualized according to his worth, as viewed from the consciousness of natural law.
At the present time each human being is judged according to that degree of physical perfection to which he has attained, yet man as an individual is to become a standard of the “sun” type, and the collective forces in nature are even now uniting humanity into groups and forms suitable to their natural expression.
When a man dies his individuality allies itself to his own true nature and mind, but also, amongst the living, nature’s collective units are working to unite man to his true collective group expression. Seeing into the future, the Yogi measures and analyzes the intelligence in these different groups. Face to face with people of a similar nature of expression to himself a man is either tortured or stimulated by his environment, because it is similar to his own nature. If man seeks knowledge and aspires for good, he will find himself upon his own level of aspiration, and his associates will be similar to his own nature. Thus men of knowledge associate together, and those in ignorance associate with those who do not have the knowledge of good.
In this way nature rewards and punishes mankind, for it is her intention to reveal to man his own true relative expression in nature. If man indulges in his evil instincts, he gradually loses his freedom and comes under the jurisdiction of a dictator, whom he must obey. Since happiness is the ultimate end of man’s evolution, he eventually realizes that happiness can only come from freedom of individualized expression.
Poor pigmy man, standing alone in his ignorance of the law of karma! In the years between 1666 and 1766 the British alone imported into British, French, Spanish, and American settlements above three million slaves. A quarter of a million died on the voyage. Between 1766 and 1860 the total can hardly be credited. But by the law of cause and effect the people who enslaved these negroes must bear the penalty of being slaves to other minds, for nature is the lawgiver and her penalties are according to the law. To profit by her teachings man must make alliance with nature and recognize her intelligent overlordship.
In his ignorance man knows not that nature is urging him and that myriads of eyes in nature are watching him. Like the ant he is building his mounds in nature’s thoroughfares, where they are bound to be trampled down by the feet of time.
Thus nature, in her march, is administering justice. Man is getting meted out to him the treatment which, in present and past lives, he has meted out to others. In similar manner, the justice of God is sifting the stars, enlightening some and clouding others. The spirit thus enlightens the minds of some, while darkness closes in on others, so that in them even greater ignorance of the law prevails.
