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law by which we govern our outgoing thought and action and our
relations with each other so as to help best both our own growth
and that of the human race towards the divine ideal.
CWSA 19: 171

Aspects of dharma
Dharma is generally spoken of as something eternal and un-
changing, and so it is in the fundamental principle, in the ideal, but
in its forms it is continually changing and evolving, because man
does not already possess the ideal or live in it, but aspires more or
less perfectly towards it, is growing towards its knowledge and
practice. And in this growth Dharma is all that helps us to grow
into the divine purity, largeness, light, freedom, power, strength,
joy, love, good, unity, beauty, and against it stands its shadow and
denial, all that resists its growth and has not undergone its law,
all that has not yielded up and does not will to yield up its secret
of divine values, but presents a front of perversion and contradic-
tion, of impurity, narrowness, bondage, darkness, weakness, vile-
ness, discord and suffering and division, and the hideous and the
crude, all that man has to leave behind in his progress. This is the
adharma, not-Dharma, which strives with and seeks to overcome
the Dharma, to draw backward and downward, the reactionary
force which makes for evil, ignorance and darkness. Between the
two there is perpetual battle and struggle, oscillation of victory
and defeat in which sometimes the upward and sometimes the
downward forces prevail. This has been typified in the Vedic image
of the struggle between the divine and the Titanic powers, the
sons of the Light and the undivided Infinity and the children of
the Darkness and Division, in Zoroastrianism by Ahuramazda and
Ahriman, and in later religions in the contest between God and his
angels and Satan or Iblis and his demons for the possession of hu-
man life and the human soul.
It is these things that condition and determine the work of the

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