GOD'S PLAN 13

great Treasure before he sought it of his own
accord for Its own sake. Then one God wiser than
the rest said " let us hide it in man himself; he
will never think of seeking Divinity within him-
self ". And so the legend goes on to say that this
precious treasure was hidden within man, and
possibly the time is dawning when he will begin
to seek for it.

u God's plan for man is to unfold his latent
Divinity " and His plan is worked out in each
department of creation from the atom to the
animal and to man himself. All life flows out
from the same source as I said last week, and
in as far as we are all partakers of that one life
we are sharers one with the other and partakers
of each other.

God, or the Logos as He is sometimes called,
sends us forth out of Himself to live in one
sense a separate life " bound on a wheel of birth
and death, and birth again, each life as a day in
the school of eternal life," each life for the
purpose of completing a certain lesson or many
lessons. Mr. Jinarajadasa makes a very simple
and clear diagram of this plan in his First
Principles of Theosophy. He points out that
at the early stage when we were all savages
we learnt by " getting," the insistent " I want
it " was the keynote by which we obtained a