Pour forth your strength into my heart That I might stand strong! Encircle with healing love those Who persecute me through fear! And say to my soul, "I am with you always."
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Hope is not something subjective due to an optimistic or sanguine temperament or a desire for compensation. It is a light-force which radiates objectively and which directs creative evolution towards the world’s future. It is the celestial and spiritual counterpart of the natural and terrestrial instinct of reproduction ... In other words, hope is that which moves and directs spiritual evolution in the world.