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the ill-will and opposition that surround you, open yourself to re-
ceive that force in its place.
The Mother's help and mine are always there for you. You have
only to turn fully towards it and it will act on you.
CWSA 29: 33-34
I should like to say something about the Divine Grace — for you
seem to think it should be something like a Divine Reason acting
upon lines not very different from those of human intelligence. But
it is not that. Also it is not a universal Divine Compassion either,
acting impartially on all who approach it and acceding to all prayers.
It does not select the righteous and reject the sinner. The Divine
Grace came to aid the persecutor (Saul of Tarsus), it came to St.
Augustine the profligate, to Jagai and Madhai of infamous fame, to
Bilwamangal and many others whose conversion might well scan-
dalise the puritanism of the human moral intelligence; but it can
come to the righteous also — curing them of their self-righteous-
ness and leading to a purer consciousness beyond these things. It is
a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law — for
all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace.
Yet it is not indiscriminate — only it has a discrimination of its own
which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with
another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. A
state of Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils
by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace
comes then the Grace itself acts. There are these three powers: (1)
the Cosmic Law, of Karma or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion
acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and
giving them their chance; and (3) the Divine Grace which acts more
incalculably but also more irresistibly than the others. The only
question is whether there is something behind all the anomalies of
life which can respond to the call and open itself with whatever dif-
ficulty till it is ready for the illumination of the Divine Grace — and

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