Having
seen and realized that evil is but a passing shadow thrown, by the intercepting
self, across the transcendent from of the Eternal Good, and the world is a
mirror in which each sees a refection of him, we now ascend, by firm and easy
step, to that plane of perception whereon is seen and realized the vision of
the Law, with this realization comes the knowledge that everything is a
ceaseless interaction of cause and effect, and that nothing can possibly be
divorced from law. From the most trivial thought, word, act of man up to the
groupings of the celestial bodies, law reigns supreme.
No arbitrary condition
can, even for one moment, exist, for such a condition would be a denial and an
annihilation of law. Every condition of life is therefore, bound up in an
orderly and harmonious sequence, and the secret and cause of every condition is
contained within itself.
The
law “Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap” is inscribed in flaming
letters upon the portal of Eternity, and none can deny it, none can cheat it,
none can escape it. He who puts his hands in the fire must suffer the burning
until such time as it has worked itself out, and neither curses nor prayers can
avail to alter it. And precisely the same law governs the realm of mind.
Hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, list, covetousness, all there are fires which
burn, and whoever even so much as touches them must duffer the torments of
burning.
All
these conditions of mind are rightly called “evil,” for they are the efforts of
the soul to subvert, in its ignorance, the law, and they, therefore, lead to
chaos and confusion within, and are sooner or later actualized in the outward
circumstances as disease, failure, and misfortune, coupled with grief, pain,
and despair. Whereas love, gentleness, good-will, purity are cooling airs which
breathe peace upon the soul that woos them, and, being in harmony with the
Eternal Law, they become actualized in the form of health, peaceful
surroundings, and undeviating success and good fortune.
A
thorough understating of this Great Law which the permeates the Universe leads
to the acquirement of that state of known as obedient. To known that justice,
harmony, and love are supreme in the universes is likewise to known that all
adverse and pain conditions are the result of our own disobedient to that Law.
Such knowledge leads to strength and power, and
it is upon such knowledge alone that true life and enduring success and
happiness can be built, to be patient under all circumstances, and to accepts
all conditions as necessary factors in your training. Is to rise superior to
all painful conditions, and to overcome them with an overcoming which is sure,
and which leaves no fear of their return, for by the power of obedient to law
they are utterly slain, such an obedient one is working in harmony with the
law, has in fact, identified himself with the law, and whatsoever the conquers
he conquers forever: whatsoever he built can never be destroyed.
The
cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within: the secret of all happiness
as of all misery is likewise within. There is no progress apart from enfoldment
within, and no sure foothold of prosperity or peace except by orderly
advancement in knowledge.
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