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and Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her
rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a
grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her
action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one
concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul
and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour.

Mahakali

Mahakali is of another nature. Not wideness but height, not wis-
dom but force and strength are her peculiar power. There is in her
an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a
divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her
divinity leaps out in a splendour of tempestuous action; she is there
for swiftness, for the immediately effective process, the rapid and
direct stroke, the frontal assault that carries everything before it.
Terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood
against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds
who never shrinks from the battle. Intolerant of imperfection, she
deals roughly with all in man that is unwilling and she is severe to all
that is obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and
dire against treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten
at once by her scourge. Indifference, negligence and sloth in the
divine work she cannot bear and she smites awake at once with
sharp pain, if need be, the untimely slumberer and the loiterer. The
impulses that are swift and straight and frank, the movements that
are unreserved and absolute, the aspiration that mounts in flame
are the motion of Mahakali. Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will
are high and far-reaching like the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid
on the upward way and her hands are outstretched to strike and to
succour. For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her
wrath and she has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is al-
lowed to intervene in her strength, then in one moment are broken

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