GOD'S PLAN 17

holding back our own evolution and not work-
ing in with the general forward step towards
the far distant goal of " Not 1 but my Father ".

It is a very long road—life after life, life after
life, forward and upward, on the eternal ladder
of life, and the Divine Wisdom seeks to show
these truths to the world, so that when once
they are recognised we may join hands as we
acknowledge the need for the unity of Brother-
hood and work only for that which unites and
cease to work for everything that divides.
Each one of us must come to a stage in our
lives when we wake up to this fact, and it is
often a very rude awakening when we find out
how little we know, and that all the past there-
fore seems futile and wasted. There was a time
when we thought we knew something. That was
when we were very, very young, and the moment
we begin to know a little we realise that we
know nothing" in comparison with all that there
is to know- You must surely have noticed that
the one who knows something speaks little and
is learning always, and the one who knows
nothing is always anxious to show what he
thinks is knowledge and talks much and is full
of pomposity.

In studying the Divine Wisdom the u know-
alls " have no place, for the knowledge to be
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