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like things without consistence
the obstacles that immobilise or
the enemies that assail the seeker.
If her anger is dreadful to the hos-
tile and the vehemence of her pres-
sure painful to the weak and timid,
she is loved and worshipped by the
great, the strong and the noble; for
they feel that her blows beat what
is rebellious in their material into
strength and perfect truth, hammer Power of the Psychic
Consciousness
straight what is wry and perverse Psychic power organises the
and expel what is impure or defec- activities of the nature to
tive. But for her what is done in a day make them progress.
might have taken centuries; without (Spiritual Significance and Explanation
her Ananda might be wide and grave given by the Mother)
or soft and sweet and beautiful but Botanical Name: Hibiscus
would lose the flaming joy of its most absolute intensities. To knowl-
edge she gives a conquering might, brings to beauty and harmony a
high and mounting movement and imparts to the slow and difficult
labour after perfection an impetus that multiplies the power and
shortens the long way. Nothing can satisfy her that falls short of the
supreme ecstasies, the highest heights, the noblest aims, the largest
vistas. Therefore with her is the victorious force of the Divine and it
is by grace of her fire and passion and speed if the great achieve-
ment can be done now rather than hereafter.

Mahalakshmi

Wisdom and Force are not the only manifestations of the supreme
Mother; there is a subtler mystery of her nature and without it Wis-
dom and Force would be incomplete things and without it perfec-
tion would not be perfect. Above them is the miracle of eternal

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