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while as realists we must wash away all alluvia, to break up the significance of the rational basis
would be unwarranted.
If an architect sees a firm foundation, he makes use of it for a new construction. Needed is
a world economy of resources. The luxury of destruction has departed into the pages of history.
The world is not in need of new elements but of new combinations. And the path of the new
conqueror is illuminated not by the red glow of fires but by sparks of re-attracted energy. The
currents of possibilities are unified inseparably. Great danger lies in disturbing the current of
energy. Caution has been spoken about, not only for economizing on energy but also for avoiding
danger. It is easy to sever an underground conduit and deprive an entire city of light. One could
easily destroy a useful foundation and bring for a long time a harmful confusion. Therefore We
commend a resolute prudence and deplore the luxury of destruction.
215. The solar ray withers and destroys, but light restores. Needed is saturation but not a sharp
blow. The builders should know how to saturate the atmosphere. The pledge of success lies in
saturation of the atmosphere, which restores all that exists.
Thus, it is necessary to build so that all the past conforms with the future.
All that is erroneous and fortuitous is destroyed, but the thread of knowledge must remain
inviolate. This is not a concession to the past but the current of eternity.
If people would learn to sense the wave of  santana, they could receive the consciousness
of the Cosmos.
When a traveler stands on a summit, does he not feel that his body is being raised as if he
were a unifier of worlds? Indeed, not breaking away from the Earth, but containment of the
capacity for unifying is what makes man a creator.
An alien teaching insists upon manifestation of subservience, but the community is so
saturated with possibilities that the Sole Hierarchy will be the step of knowledge. No one
designates the Hierarch, but those who listen and realize thus recognize this step. The Teacher will
be the natural leader.
In Asia the Teacher is manifested as a lawful concept. By the covenant of Buddha each
future Teacher is especially reverenced. In this revelation of possibility is the whole pledge of the
future.
Saturation of the atmosphere will raise up the coming solution of the world.
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216. Beware of those who have no time. Being falsely busy indicates first of all inability to make
use of the treasure of time and space, and such people can execute only the primitive forms of
labor. It is impossible to attract them to construction. We have already spoken about the falsifiers
of dates, who steal someone else's time; now let us speak about paltry idlers and dullards, who
clutter up the path of life. They are busy as a pepper-box; they always have a bitterness against
labor; they are as puffed up as turkey-cocks; they account for a quantity of stench from smoking;
they bring the place of labor into a state of stupefaction. They think up a hundred pretexts to fill in
the cracks of rotten work. They cannot find an hour for the most urgent. In their stupidity they are
ready to become arrogant and to deny that which is most essential for them. They are as
unproductive as are the thieves of another's time. They must be excluded from the new structures.
For them can remain the carrying of bricks.
We know many workers who find an hour for the most important; it does not seem to them
that they are too occupied. Whoever is not grudging in his work will receive bounteously. This
quality of containment of labor is indispensable for the expansion of consciousness. Can anything
replace the joy of the growth of consciousness?
In Our Hindu writings you have encountered the expression  play" applied to cosmic
concepts. The play of the Great Mother of the World is it not visible to the illumined
consciousness? And the drama of blood is it not changed in the light of radiant matter. Yet for the
radiant play it is necessary to have a prepared hour.
217. There are two kinds of skepticism one benevolent, as in him who seeks confirmation; the
other fainthearted, as in a proprietor resisting innovations. The manifestation of the second is
customary in circles of poor education. Never begin a dispute with people of this kind. Propose to
them to read and to add to their education. The first kind of skeptics represent for Us an agreeable
manifestation, for out of their ranks are obtained useful coworkers. Indeed, they are usually far
more cultured and their former experiences are richer. Thus, they can more easily compare data of
different domains of knowledge. In fact, they are already prepared for acceptance of the
community, and for them comparisons will be only a removal of temporary cataract.
As realists We know reality, and We rejoice when someone searches by the path of reality.
This reality does not allow one to attach significance to ignorance. Snow carried away by the
spring sun does not occupy attention, but if it creates a swamp we pitch our camp on a higher spot.
218. A certain state of matter composes the human individual calling up into life a conscious
individualization, and from this moment is begun the conflict against the community. When, as is
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