Degenerate Natures Are of the Highest Significance

It is the more unfettered, uncertain and morally weaker individuals upon whom spiritual progress depends. Degenerate natures are of the highest significance wherever progress is to be effected. Every progress of the whole has to be preceded by a partial weakening. The strongest natures preserve the the weaker help it to evolve. Rarely is a degeneration, a mutilation, even of vice and physical or moral damage, in general, without an advantage in some other direction.