when He has need of it, to cast aside when He needs it not; every region of the world is His to use, no region of the world is its own to bind Him; He is liberated, and as the liberated Self He may, if He will, still work for His brother men, remaining, as Shrî Shankarâchârya taught us, until the end of His age, in order to lift humanity more rapidly on its upward climb. Thus are formed Those who are the co-workers of Íshvara in the helping of humanity, who, having gone through all suffering, throw everything they have gained at the feet of the Lord, who turn back to the world, never again to be bound by it, but still responding to the compassion which is the very life of Íshvara Himself. As long as Íshvara wills to remain in manifestation, so long does He whose will is one with that of Íshvara, will also to remain. He has nothing to gain, nothing to learn, nothing to take that any world can give Him; but He stands beside His Lord as an organ of the expression of the highest life, existing no longer for anything that He takes, but as the channel of the life of God. That is the prize of our calling, that the goal on which our hearts are fixed. Women's Printing Society, Limited, 66, Whitcomb Street, W.C. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The following variants appear in this text: "A'kâsha" and "Akâsha", "A'nanda" and "Ananda", "Kabbalah" and "Kabala", "kârmic" and "karmic", "out-pouring" and "outpouring", "Self-existence" and "Self-Existence", "wellnigh" and "well-nigh". The spelling "Brahmâ" appears to be standard, but "Brahma" also appears, in the phrase "Mahad Brahma". The phrase "may by" in "may by it be brought" on p. 20 should possibly be "may be" but has been left unchanged. Words in italics are indicated by underscores, _like this_. The following amendments to spelling and punctuation have been made: 1) "hierachies" amended to "hierarchies" on p. 27. 2) "philosphy" amended to "philosophy" on p. 28. 3) "manâsic" amended to "mânasic" on p. 52. 4) Period added after "tato bhavati Bhârata" on p. 97. 5) "Avâtara" amended to "Avatâra" on p. 119. 6) Comma added after "kingdom" on p. 119. End of Project Gutenberg's Evolution of Life and Form, by Annie Wood Besant