They try to shape the present in the light of their knowledge of history, as well as in the light of their insight into the possibilities for the unborn future. But the limited intellect is not competent to grasp quantities which are beginningless as well as endless, with the result that the purely intellectual perspective, even at its best, inevitably remains only partial, sketchy, incomplete and, in a sense, even erroneous.
The intellectual perspective is workable, and even indispensable, for planned action. But in the absence of the deeper wisdom of the heart or the clearer intuition of the spirit, such intellectual perspective gives only relative truth, which bears upon itself the stamp of uncertainty. The so-called planned action of the intellect has behind it many mighty forces which have not even come to the fringe of consciousness; and it also actually leads to many valuable unexpected results which are entirely beyond the range of vision of the so-called planning. In other words, intellectual planning turns out to be a planning mostly in name, containing in it only as much truth as is necessary to justify the players in feeling that they have had a real share in the entire game.
Actually, everything in the evolutionary creation is wrought solely by the Infinite Power of God, Who works in eternal silence — from behind the screen as it were — unknown, unfelt and even unsuspected by most players who are in the passing flashlight of the stage. Some, through the grace of the Masters, or the grace of God, succeed in unlocking within their own being the hidden spring of divine love, which unveils the unlimited and certain understanding of the Infinite Divinity, which, in its eternity, comprehends not only the apparently beginningless past and the apparently transient present, but also the apparently interminable future.
The apparent infinity of the stretch of time is ultimately unreal, even as time itself is ultimately unreal. In the last spiritual understanding, which facilitates conscious Realization of the Absolute Truth, the illusory infinity of the time process is taken up into the true Eternity of God's Illimitable Life and Being. The God-Men, who get consciously established in the limitless understanding of God, can know the past, the present and the future. But for them, this knowledge of the fleeting shadows of Eternity is far less important than complete merging into the fathomlessness of God, Infinite Understanding and Infinite Truth or Reality.