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== Imperfection to Perfection ==
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">In this light we can admit that all works perfectly towards a divine end by a divine wisdom and therefore each thing is in that sense perfectly fitted in its place; but we say that that is not the whole of the divine purpose. For what is is only justifiable, finds its perfect sense and satisfaction by what can and will be. There is, no doubt, a key in the divine reason that would justify things as they are by revealing their right significance and true secret as other, subtler, deeper than their outward meaning and phenomenal appearance which is all that can normally be caught by our present intelligence: but we cannot be content with that belief, to search for and find the spiritual key of things is the law of our being. The sign of the finding is not a philosophic intellectual recognition and a resigned or sage acceptance of things as they are because of some divine sense and purpose in them which is beyond us; the real sign is an elevation towards the spiritual knowledge and power which will transform the law and phenomena and external forms of our life nearer to a true image of that divine sense and purpose. It is right and reasonable to endure with equanimity suffering and subjection to defect as the immediate will of God, a present law of imperfection laid on our members, but on condition that we recognise it also as the will of God in us to transcend evil and suffering, t</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">o to transform imperfection into perfection, to rise into a higher law of Divine Nature</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. In our human consciousness there is the image of an ideal truth of being, a divine nature, an incipient godhead: in relation to that higher truth our present state of imperfection can be relatively described as an undivine life and the conditions of the world from which we start as undivine conditions; the imperfections are the indication given to us that they are there as first disguises, not as the intended expression of the divine being and the divine nature. It is a Power within us, the concealed Divinity, that has lit the flame of aspiration, pictures the image of the ideal, keeps alive our discontent and pushes us to throw off the disguise and to reveal or, in the Vedic phrase, to form and disclose the Godhead in the manifest spirit, mind, life and body of this terrestrial creature. Our present nature can only be transitional, our imperfect status a starting-point and opportunity for the achievement of another higher, wider and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">greater that shall be divine and perfect not only by the secret spirit within it but in its manifest and most outward form of existence.<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-and-the-undivine#p9</u></ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-and-the-undivine#p9</u></ref> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The more perfect the contact, the greater the power. (The Mother, 20 June 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/20-june-1956#p11</ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There is nothing you cannot understand if you give your brain the time to widen and perfect itself. (The Mother, 12 December 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p15</ref></span>
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