the pities; the charities; the tolerances; we feel while we are
apparently engrossed in the outer life. Together, these little
impulses, perhaps forgotten in the rush of the day's seemingly
important business affairs, come finally to be the ladder by which we
climb to the spiritual heights where the bliss of true and perfect,
melting, merging, liquid-love, of the one and only mate awaits us.

One thing more. This also is a secret. Perhaps you will not even
believe it, but it is true: Poets are the practical members of our
crazy civilization. Business men are practical only when they are
also, and above all, idealists.

CHAPTER XI

THE LAW OF TRANSMUTATION

External life is a succession of picture blocks with which we have
builded our thoughts into shapes and forms manifest to the mortal
senses. But back of every act there is the invisible ideal which
prompted it, so that to the one who has the interior vision; one who
looks at life from the citadel of his own interior nature instead of
merely sensing it by external contact, every material thing tells its
interior story; everything has an esoteric or occult meaning. It is
said that mystic truths have been veiled in symbolical language; but
to those who know the language of symbolism, there is no veil; what
seems so is due to the refractory character of the mind which is
limited to sense consciousness.

There are two words much used in this day of the Dawn which give the
key to the trend of the cosmic cycle upon which the earth has entered.
The word "union," or its equivalent, enters into almost every phase of
our busy life as well as into ethical and philosophical thought. This
word, with much that it stands for, has superseded the word
"agreement," or "combination" or "partnership," formerly used. Union
means something more interior, than do these other words, even when
applied to commercial issues.

The business man says to his partners "let us unite on this question."
They are already partners, but unless there is a unity of thought and
ideals, their partnership is an unsatisfactory and unfruitful one. We
have labor unions which are intended to suggest a solidarity of
effort; a merging of interests; a welding together into one
thought-force, of those who enter the organization. The fullness of
meaning of this word "union" is not adequately expressed in the words
lodge, or club, or any of the terms use