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Faith in the Divine Shakti


        The faith in the divine Shakti must be always at the back of our
        strength and when she becomes manifest, it must be or grow
        implicit and complete. There is nothing that is impossible to
        her who is the conscious Power and universal Goddess all-cre-
        ative from eternity and armed with the Spirit's omnipotence.
        All knowledge, all strengths, all triumph and victory, all skill and
        works are in her hands and they are full of the treasures of the
        Spirit and of all perfections and siddhis. She is Maheshwari,
        goddess of the supreme knowledge, and brings to us her vision
        for all kinds and widenesses of truth, her rectitude of the spiri-
        tual will, the calm and passion of her supramental largeness,
        her felicity of illumination: she is Mahakali, goddess of the su-
        preme strength, and with her are all mights and spiritual force
        and severest austerity of tapas and swiftness to the battle and
        the victory and the laughter, the atahasya, that makes light
        of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance: she is
        Mahalakshmi, the goddess of the supreme love and delight,
        and her gifts are the spirit's grace and the charm and beauty of
        the Ananda and protection and every divine and human bless-
        ing: she is Mahasaraswati, the goddess of divine skill and of the
        works of the Spirit, and hers is the Yoga that is skill in works,
        yoga# karmasu kau0alam, and the utilities of divine knowledge
        and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness of
        its harmonies. And in all her powers and forms she carries with
        her the supreme sense of the masteries of the eternal Ishwari,
        a rapid and divine capacity for all kinds of action that may be
        demanded from the instrument, oneness, a participating sym-
        pathy, a free identity, with all energies in all beings and there-
        fore a spontaneous and fruitful harmony with all the divine will
        in the universe. The intimate feeling of her presence and her

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