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vengeance. Leave these things, for they belong to a lower humanity.

Anger and vengeance belong to a lower humanity, the humanity of yesterday and not of tomorrow.

1 December 1969 212 – Poets make much of death and external afflictions; but

the only tragedies are the soul’s failures and the only epic man’s triumphant ascent towards godhead.

Usually man is not afflicted with the only thing truly tragic, the failure to find one’s soul and to live according to its law.1

In truth, the only thing that is truly tragic is not to become conscious of one’s soul, the psychic being, and not to be entirely guided by it in one’s life.

To die before having found one’s soul and lived according to its law, that is the true failure.

And the true epic, the true glory is to find the Divine in oneself and to live according to His law.

3 December 1969 213 – The tragedies of the heart and the body are the weeping

of children over their little griefs and their broken toys. Smile within thyself, but comfort the children; join also, if thou canst, in their play.

It is the narrowness of the human consciousness that makes tragedies out of events which for the Divine Consciousness are only movements in the general evolution. But even when one 1 This sentence was in English in the original.