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we may be either the suffering slaves of
nature or the happy masters of her laws
it is the natural right of every human
being to be happy to escape all the
miseries of life happiness is the normal
condition as natural as the landscapes
and the seasons it is unnatural to
suffer and it is only because of our
ignorance that we do suffer happiness
the product of wisdom to attain perfect
wisdom to comprehend fully the purpose
of life to realize completely the
relationship of human beings to each
other is to put an end to all suffering
to escape every ill and evil that
afflicts us perfect wisdom is unsat oh
joy why do we suffer in life because in
the scheme of nature we are being forced
forward in evolution and we lack the
spiritual illumination that alone can
light the way and enable us to move
safely among the obstacles that lie
before us usually we do not even see or
suspect the presence of trouble until it
suddenly leaps upon us like a concealed
tiger
one day our family circle was complete
and happy a week later death has come
and gone and joy is replaced with agony
today we have a friend tomorrow he will
be an enemy we do not know why a little
while ago we had wealth and all material
luxuries there was sudden change and now
we have only poverty and misery and yet
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we seek in vain for a reason why this
should be there was a time when we had
health and strength but they have both
departed and no trace of the reason
appears aside from these greater
tragedies of life countless things of
lesser consequence continually bring to
less little miseries and minor heart
aches we must earnestly desire to avoid
them we never see them until they strike
us until in the darkness of our
ignorance we blunder upon them the thing
we lack is the spiritual illumination
that will enable us to look far and wide
finding the hidden causes of human
suffering and revealing the method by
which they may be avoided and if we can
but reach illumination the evolutionary
journey can be made both comfortably and
swiftly it is as though we must pass
through a long dark room filled with
furniture promiscuous ly scattered about
in the darkness our progress would be
slow and painful and our bruises many
but if we could press a button that
would turn on the electric light we
could then make the same journey quickly
and with perfect safety and comfort the
old method of education was to store the
mine with as many facts or supposed
facts as could be accumulated and to
give a certain exterior polish to the
personality the theory was then that
when man was born he was a completed
human being and all that could be done
for him was to load him up with
information that would be used with more
or less skill according to the native
ability he happened to be born with
the Theosophical idea is that the
physical manned and all that constitutes
his life in the physical world is but a
very partial expression of the self that
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in the ego of each there is practically
unlimited power and wisdom that these
may be brought through into expression
in the physical world as the physical
body in its invisible counterparts which
together constitute the complex vehicle
of the egos manifestation are evolved
and adapted to the purpose and that an
exact proportion that conscious effort
is given to such self-development with
spiritual illumination be achieved and
wisdom attained thus the light that
leads to happiness is kindled from
within and the evolutionary journey that
all are making may be robbed of its
suffering why does death bring misery
chiefly because it separates us from
those who we love but when we have
evolved a faculty of clairvoyance and
our work of self-development the
separation vanishes and our deceased
friends are as much with us as the
living the only other reason why death
brings grief or fear is because we do
not understand it and comprehend the
part it plays in human evolution but the
moment our ignorance gives way to
comprehension such fear vanishes and a
serene happiness takes its place why do
we have enemies from whose words or acts
we suffer because in our limited
physical consciousness we do not
perceive the unity of all life and
realize that our wrong thinking and
doing must react upon us through other
people
a situation from which there is no
possible escape except their ceasing to
think evil and then patiently awaiting
the time when the causes we have already
generated are fully exhausted when
spiritual illumination comes and we no
longer stumble in the night of ignorance
the last enemy will disappear and we
shall make no more forever why do people
suffer from poverty and disease only
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because of our blundering ignorance that
makes their existence possible for us
and because we do not comprehend the
meaning and their lessons nor know the
attitude to assume toward them had we
both the wisdom to understand why they
came to people why they are necessary
factors in their evolution they would
trouble us no longer when nature's
lesson is fully learned these mute
teachers will vanish and so it is with
all forms of suffering we experience
there at once reactions from our
blundering and instructors that point
out the better way when we have
comprehended the lesson they teach
they're no longer necessary and
disappear thus our evolution is going
forward and has gone forward in the past
we know that the human race has passed
through a long evolution during which it
has acquired five senses which knowledge
is gained nobody who has given thoughts
the subject will make the mistake of
supposing that this evolution is
completed and that the five senses are
all we shall ever possess
in this long evolutionary journey the
next thing we shall do is to develop the
sixth sense some people have already
done so and all are approaching it this
dawning sense is called clairvoyance
fair investigation will show that the
clairvoyant possesses certain powers not
common to the majority of people this is
merely the beginning of the development
of the sixth sense and probably with the
majority of clairvoyance it goes no
further than the ethic and lower astral
sight in other words they are able to
raise the consciousness only to a grade
a matter a little beyond the grasp of
ordinary vision while the properly
developed trained clairvoyant raises is
consciousness to full plains beyond the
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higher consciousness has raised the
further the horizon of knowledge extends
and the clairvoyant is able to hand down
information that appears quite
miraculous but it is perfectly natural
if a certain person were born blind and
had never understood any more about
eyesight that most people understand
about clairvoyance if this person could
know how many doorways were in a large
building only by groping along with his
hands and thus acquiring the knowledge
by touch and another person who could
see should glance along the block and
instantly tell the blind man the correct
number that would be to the blind man a
miracle now when a clairvoyant sees
dings at a distance where the physical
why can I reach he really does nothing
more remarkable when we see a thing we
received vibrations caused by light that
gives the information
when the clairvoyant sees at a distance
through what we mistakenly call solid
substances he receives vibrations of
matter so find that it interpenetrate
solids as the ether does every human
being must make and is making this long
evolutionary journey from spiritual
infancy to godlike power and perfection
but there are two ways in which you may
be done we may as the vast majority do
except the process of unconscious
evolution and submit to nature's whip
and spur that continuously urge the
thoughtless and indifferent forward
until they finally reach the goal or we
may choose conscious evolution and work
intelligently with nature thus making
progress that is comparatively of
enormous rapidity and at the same time
avoid much of what Hamlet called the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
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so degree to which mind can control
circumstances and dominate matters far
greater than is generally believed our
impressions about matter or very
illusory no form of matter is permanent
change goes on everywhere at every
instant by physical laws in the physical
body and by astral and mental laws and
our visible bodies we are not the same
being physically mentally or spiritually
any two days in succession the very soul
itself is subject to this law of change
it may expand and shine out through the
physical organism or splendid or it may
only faintly glimmer through a
constantly corseting body what is the
law of soul growth through adherence to
what principle may we reach spiritual
illumination there are certain
well-established facts about the laws of
growth that we should not overlook when
seeking the way forward nothing whatever
can grow without use without activity in
action causes atrophy
physiologists tell us that if the arm is
tied to the body so that it cannot be
used it will in time become so enfeebled
that it is of no further service it will
wither away that is nature's law of
economy she never gives life where it is
useless where it cannot or will not be
utilized on the other hand exercise
increases power to increase the size and
strength of muscles we must use them
this is just as true of mental and moral
faculties as it is of physical body the
only way to make the brain keen and
powerful is to exercise it by original
thinking one way to gain sole power is
to give free play to the loftiest
aspirations which we are capable and do
it systematically instead of that random
grow to be like the things we think
about now the reverse of all this must
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be equally true to give no thought to
higher things to become completely
absorbed to material affairs is to
strive for the soul to invite spiritual
atrophy turning our attention into
nature we shall find at the parasite
convincing proof of all of this the
parasite whether plant or animal is
living evidence that to refuse or
neglect to use an organ or faculty
results in being deprived of it the
daughter says drummond has roots like
other plants but when it fixes it sucker
discs on the branches of a neighboring
plants and begins to get its food
through them its roots perish when it
fails to use them it loses them
he also points to the hermit crab as an
illustration of this great fact in
nature the dish use means loss and that
shirt responsibility is the road to
degeneration the hermit crab was once
equipped with a hard shell and with this
good means of locomotion as other crabs
but instead of courageously following
the hardy life of the other crustaceans
it formed the bad habit of taking up its
residence and the cast soft shells of
mullis this made life easy and indolent
but it paid the price of all the
shirking in time it lost four legs while
a shell over the bottle portion of its
body degenerated to a thin membrane
which leaves it practically helpless
when it is out of its captured at home
and this is the certain result of all
the shirking of responsibility there may
be an apparent temporary gain but it
always means greater loss either
immediate or remote so nature punishes
in action with atrophy whatever is not
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used finally ceases to be in plain
language apathy in action idleness
uselessness is the road to degeneration
on the other hand aspiration and
activity mean growth development and
power so we grow physically mentally and
morally by activity by exercise of the
organs or the faculties we desire to
possess it is only by the constant
exercise of these feelings that we can
grow at all when this great law of
nature is understood we see at once how
it is that life is full of trouble why
it is the whole visible world seems to
be designed to keep us constantly
working physically and mentally to
challenge our resource fulness and
improving our physical social and
political conditions to continually try
our patience and to forever test our
courage it is the way of development it
is the price of progress
the universe is a training school for
evolving intelligence a vast gymnasium
for the development of moral fiber we
become mentally clever by playing at the
game of life we match our courage
against its adversities and acquire
fearlessness we try our optimism against
its disappointments and learn
cheerfulness we could our patients
against failures and game persistence we
are torn from the pinnacle of ambition
by opponents and learn toleration of
others we fall from the heights of
vanity and pride and learn to be modest
and humble we encounter pain and sorrow
and learn sympathy with suffering it is
only by such experiences that we can
grow to rounded measure it is only in an
environment thus adapted to our
spiritual development that we can evolve
the latent powers within us such as the
universe in which we find ourselves and
from it there is no escape no man can
avoid life man cannot die you can only
choose how he will live you may either
helplessly drift through the world
suffering from all the ills and evils
that make so many unhappy or you may
choose the method of conscious evolution
that alone makes life truly successful
you may be either the suffering slaves
of nature or the happy masters of her
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