is tiring of hypocrisy and dishonesty in all human relations, and is crying aloud to be led back, someway, to Truth and Honesty in Thought and Action.  But it does not see the way out!  And it will not see the way out, until the race-mind unfolds still further.  And the pain of the new unfoldment is stirring the race to its depths.  From the deep recesses of the race-mind are rising to the surface old passions, relics from the cave-dweller days, and all sorts of ugly mental relics of the past.  And they will continue to rise and show themselves until at last the bubbling pot will begin to quiet down, and then will come a new peace, and the best will come to the surface—­the essence of all the experiences of the race.

To our students, we would say:  During the struggle ahead of the race, play well your part, doing the best you can, living each day by itself, meeting each new phase of life with confidence and courage.  Be not deluded by appearances, nor follow after strange prophets.  Let the evolutionary processes work themselves out, and do you fall in with the wave without struggling, and without overmuch striving.  The Law is working itself out well—­of that be assured.  Those who have entered into even a partial understanding and recognition of the One Life underlying, will find that they will be as the chosen people during the changes that are coming to the race.  They have attained that which the race is reaching toward in pain and travail.  And the force behind the Law will carry them along, for they will be the leaven that is to lighten the great mass of the race in the new dispensation.  Not by deed, or by action, but by Thought, will these people leaven the mass.  The Thought is even now at work, and all who read these words are playing a part in the work, although they may know it not.  If the race could realize this truth of the One Life underlying, to-day, the Change would occur in a moment, but it will not come in that way.  When this understanding gradually dawns upon the race—­this new consciousness—­then will Things take their proper places, and the Lion and the Lamb lie down together in peace.

We have thought it well to say these things in this the last lesson of this course.  They are needed words—­they will serve to point out the way to those who are able to read. “Watch and wait for the Silence that will follow the Storm.”

In this series of lessons we have endeavored to give you a plain, practical presentation of some of the more important features of “Raja Yoga.”  But this phase of the subject, as important and interesting as it is, is not the highest phase of the great Yoga teachings.  It is merely the preparation of the soil of the mind for what comes afterward.  The phase called “Gnani Yoga”—­the Yoga of Wisdom—­is the highest of all the various phases of Yoga, although each of the lower steps is important in itself.  We find ourselves approaching the phase of our work for which we have