All people of intelligence eventually awaken to some degree to the presence of God in their lives, and, depending on what religious or philosophical environment they happen to be in at the time of that awakening, they tend to interpret their spiritual experience in that context. The person living in a Moslem intellectual environment interprets his experience through the Koran, and worships Allah; the Hindu gives his heart to Krishna or Shiva; the person inundated with Buddhist ideas sees his awakening in Bu

Awake! awake! Oh, slumbering souls, Arise like him who rules the morn and leads forth the stars with song. Oh, Master hail to Thee! strike Thou with Wisdom's shafts the enemies of man's progression, Thou who art known as the Dispeller of Mortal Darkness and the Light of the Life to Come. Lead us by that Sure Path to where the spiritual sun doth rise and where mortal darkness sets beyond the clouds of fear, anger, sorrow, indolence and crime, Where the great peace reigns and thou oh lord abidest.