| Show Le Beau Monde THE enemy of spiritual vision is is al always always always al- al ways materialism It is therefore by bythe bythe bythe the of himself t that man obtains the seeing eye and hearing ear in respect of Divine things De- De materialization consists not in the separation of the soul from the body but in in the purification of both soul and body from engrossment by the things of sense It is but another example of the doctrine of dence The The Perfect Way The old adage Make the best of things is grounded in occult wisdom That is to say Never quarrel with Fate Make friends with circumstances Bring yourself into harmony with your surroundings For the links of fate and circumstance that impel one onward to toa a certain cause have all their cause and their sequence and even if they seem adverse must be worked through and not worked against Thought is the most potent form of creative force The scriptures sa say As a man so is he And so as one thinks his surroundings or circumstances are so sodo sodo sodo do they become When the unexpected happens make friends with it Something has been taken away that one cares for very much but the very fact that one thing is removed makes room for something else If one is wise he will fix his thought on the new possibilities and develop them into new and satisfying combinations The old way is closed The avenue is hedged in and he must f seek a new path But why repine There is more than one way and the unknown one may offer vistas yet undreamed undreamed undreamed un un- dreamed of and prospects full of en en- Who can answer where any road leads to If one loses a thing that is good good good- whether it be his home or his place for fork k 1 a certain work or one thing or another that has made up the locale or the scenery of his accustomed life life let let him not confront confront confront con con- front the changed prospect with regret or dismay If your hands are left t empty said Emerson it is only that i F FIt they may seek and hold better gifts it It is not a sign of power but of weakness weakness weak weak- ti ness when one clings obstinately to old y conditions There is always a time for 3 changes to come and not infrequently is isit It i ItAl Al Alit it a time wholly unforeseen But however however however how how- ever unfortunate the change may seem seem seem- t make friends with the new conditions Vitalize them with hope and faith and love thus shall a magnetic atmosphere 7 be generated that shall draw to itself all those qualities which are hoped for and il ilo o of whose hose existence one holds clear con con- The new home the new work q the new circumstances and conditions conditions- I i i they are depressing narrow undesirable undesirable undesirable able All the more then may one make them desirable and call up spirits from the vasty deep to invest them with I y enchantment For life is not being lived according to its best possibilities unless lived with the thrill and exaltation of happiness One should do ones one's work in III a state of exhilaration The days should be high 2 and beautiful and poetic They should be peopled with imaginations and en en- Every touch should thrill said Emerson and only in this intense yet serene exaltation is there achieved the better possibilities that may be daily realized by each and all f And this is achieved by escaping from j the material into the spiritual Man is isa a divine being and he should live daily and hourly the divine life Anything less than that defrauds him of his in In- Not Not in in the separation of the soul from the body as Dr Anna Kingsford says in The Perfect Way from which the opening quotation this week is made made made- not made not not in the separation i of the soul from the body but in the purification of both soul and body from engrossment by the things of sense Almost all the things that we call misfortune are of of material losses or failure Yet one should consider it a afar afar afar far greater misfortune if he said what was untrue or if he had been unkind or inconsiderate or selfish or dishonorable In these would lie his real calamity because because because be be- cause by these acts he is impairing and W undermining the quality of his spiritual spiritual life which is his essential life It f may be a severe inconvenience to lose money or to lose any or all of the material resources to which he is accustomed accustomed accustomed tomed but it is only an inconvenience not a misfortune J The great desiderata are to be found f in the entire spiritualization of of life tom By living so purely in thought and andin in deed as to prevent the interposition of X any ny barrier between his phenomenal and substantial self and by steadfastly cultivating cultivating cultivating cul cul- harmonious relations between sT these two two two-by by substantiating the whole l' l of his system to the Divi Divine e Central t Will Will whose whose seat is in the soul the soul the theman l 3 man gains full access to the stores of knowledge laid up in his soul and f attains to the cognition of God and the ther r universe Revelation is no noless less than reason a natural of man and belongs of right to man in his highest an and measure of de de- rt r All AI this divine inheritance of treasures t of wisdom of knowledge of love of r beauty is the natural daily life If one does not partake of its infinite resources he is not living aright Let him make the mental demand for all this atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere Pere and in it it he shall enter Let LetI I him refuse to admit dullness and depression depression depres depres- sion SlOn and they shall flee away as aH the i shadows flee before the light The earth is full of the riches of the Lord 0 i And man was formed in the divine image and created that he might enter into and partake of all this infinite es esE Ji b E sweetness and exaltation Let him rejoice and be glad forevermore I Boston Budget |
