Coming and going, ever flowing in
Upon the proud rocks of the human soul;
That all resistance should be spent and past,
And every heart yield unto it at last.

ENTERING INTO THE INFINITE

From the beginning of time, man, in spite of his bodily appetites and
desires, in the midst of all his clinging to earthly and impermanent
things, has ever been intuitively conscious of the limited, transient, and
illusionary nature of his material existence, and in his sane and silent
moments has tried to reach out into a comprehension of the Infinite, and
has turned with tearful aspiration toward the restful Reality of the
Eternal Heart.

While vainly imagining that the pleasures of earth are real and satisfying,
pain and sorrow continually remind him of their unreal and unsatisfying
nature. Ever striving to believe that complete satisfaction is to be found
in material things, he is conscious of an inward and persistent revolt
against this belief, which revolt is at once a refutation of his essential
mortality, and an inherent and imperishable proof that only in the
immortal, the eternal, the infinite can he find abiding satisfaction and
unbroken peace.

And here is the common ground of faith; here the root and spring of all
religion; here the soul of Brotherhood and the heart of Love,--that man is
essentially and spiritually divine and eternal, and that, immersed in
mortality and troubled with unrest, he is ever striving to enter into a
consciousness of his real nature.

The spirit of man is inseparable from the Infinite, and can be satisfied
with nothing short of the Infinite, and the burden of pain will continue to
weigh upon man's heart, and the shadows of sorrow to darken his pathway
until, ceasing from his wanderings in the dream-world of matter, he comes
back to his home in the reality of the Eternal.

As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the
qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the
Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must,
by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and
lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his
nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean
of the Infinite.

To re-become one with the Infinite is the goal of man. To enter into
perfect harmony with the Eternal Law is Wisdom, Love and Peace. But this
divine