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school, it is as if we were all up for examina-
tion, some pass but some have to come up again
for examination later, they do not go for-
ward now in life's school.

The study of the past teaches us to keep our
minds open and the happenings of to-day need
open minds ; there is so much going on that we
do not understand and are afraid to look into,
but we are children in life's pathway, so cannot
we say with the children, lt when I am grown
up I shall understand," and suspend judgment ?

The fact is our old ideas have to be scrapped
now-a-days. Are we bold enough to do that
and start afresh with clear and open minds ?

It is only ourselves then that can hinder us, it
is ourselves that bind us, and prevent us from
accomplishing that which our Higher Selves
desire.

A continual warfare we may say, only the
warfare is within. The warfare is the God
within seeking to expand and the lower self
desires Him to remain unheeded.

We have all faced, possibly many times, the
loneliness of life, when everything seemed gone,
everything that we thought of value or that we
prized seemed turned to dross. Theosophy
points out the things that live, the things that
are worth while, and that the aloneness is only