VIDEO: Manly P. Hall: Victory of the Soul Over Circumstance (remastered)

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TLDRThe video explores the concept of the soul within Christian mysticism, specifically addressing the duality between the soul and the spirit as mentioned in the Bible. It discusses ancient beliefs where the soul is seen as the 'golden wedding garment', which is developed through inner righteousness and contributes to the goodness and protection within an individual's magnetic field or aura. Throughout the discussion, it emphasizes the importance of personal growth, ethical conduct, and integrity as essential for strengthening the soul and overcoming life's adversities. This is likened to transforming basic elements into wisdom—the philosopher's stone. The speaker also links this personal journey to broader societal and planetary health, indicating that individual moral developments contribute to overcoming global issues. The ultimate message stresses that the soul's growth through righteousness leads to salvation, portraying it as a luminous vestment, a metaphor for personal and spiritual betterment. Real change starts from the individual level, influencing larger societal and environmental structures.

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  • 💡 The soul is seen as a 'golden wedding garment', transforming through personal growth.
  • 🌟 Inner righteousness leads to the development of the soul's luminous vestment.
  • 📖 Biblical teachings highlight the duality of soul and spirit, challenging theologians.
  • 🔮 The philosopher's stone metaphor parallels soul transformation into wisdom.
  • 🧠 Personal ethical conduct strengthens the soul against adversities.
  • 🌎 Individual growth impacts societal and planetary well-being.
  • 🕊️ Victory of soul signifies overcoming worldly illusions with truth.
  • ⚖️ Real world peace begins with individual integrity and moral growth.
  • 🎋 The soul progresses akin to a beanstalk reaching the heavens symbolically.
  • 🔄 Change must begin within individuals to influence larger societal issues.
  • 🛤️ The journey of soul improvement is gradual and requires consistent effort.

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    The video introduces a discussion about the concept of the soul in Christian mysticism, focusing on its mention in the Bible and the confusion caused by differing interpretations. The soul is described metaphorically as a 'golden wedding garment', a phase of the magnetic field of the human body, which evolves as humanity grows spiritually.

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    It is highlighted that humans, unlike other creatures, have the power of individual redemption. This power must be developed and manifested in daily life to transmute our material substances into spiritual vibrancy, symbolized by an ever-luminous soul.

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    The concept of salvation is explained as a spiritual victory that results from accumulating small, righteous deeds. The soul grows as individuals act unselfishly and truthfully, overcoming material and selfish inclinations, leading to personal redemption.

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    The soul is depicted as a luminous garment formed through the individual's good deeds and moral progress. It is not merely incidental but central to achieving spiritual growth and aligning with divine principles, as represented in various religious symbolisms.

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    The individual's personal failings and indulgences corrupt the soul's magnetic field, marking the need for inner transformation. It is emphasized that ignoring spiritual principles and chasing materialistic pursuits lead to eventual suffering and require repentance.

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    The earth, like individuals, is seen as a living entity affected by humanity's misuse of resources, leading to planetary and personal ailments. The narrative draws a parallel between personal growth and environmental stewardship.

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    The idea of mandatory change is introduced. An individual or a race must redirect focus from negative to positive traits for survival. Without such transformation, spiritual and material deterioration becomes inevitable, prompting an examination of one's own conduct.

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    The decay of integrity in individuals and society is likened to illnesses, leading to broader societal issues. Restoring balance via personal responsibility and integrity is posed as the solution to personal and global crises.

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    True freedom is portrayed as internal and is associated with self-discipline and ethical living. A call is made for individuals to contribute positively, overriding societal corruption through righteous personal action.

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    Unity of world religions and their essential teachings on ethical living are presented as critical for societal and spiritual stability. Following this, spiritual leadership is essential for guiding humanity back to core, shared values.

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    In conclusion, love and integrity are cast as central to spiritual mastery and global harmony, asserting that individual actions based on love and righteousness create a world in balance, supported by the eternal truths found in major religions.

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よくある質問

  • What is the 'golden wedding garment'?

    The 'golden wedding garment' is a metaphor for the soul's progression and improvement through righteousness and inner personal development.

  • How does the soul relate to the magnetic field?

    The soul represents changes in the magnetic field of the human aura; as individuals grow in goodness, the soul develops as a luminous quality within this field.

  • Why is the concept of self-improvement emphasized?

    Personal growth and improvement allow the soul to gain strength internally, eventually overcoming external difficulties and pressures.

  • What is the philosopher’s stone in this context?

    It symbolizes the transformation of the base elements of life into spiritual wisdom, paralleling the concept of soul growth.

  • How does the soul connect to salvation in Christian teaching?

    The victory of the soul signifies the triumph of righteousness and truth over worldly illusions, aligning with the concept of salvation.

  • Why is the soul compared to a luminous vestment?

    It's a metaphor for the state of righteousness and the visible, evolving qualities of goodness within the individual's magnetic field, symbolizing spiritual development.

  • What is the danger of ignoring soul growth?

    Neglecting soul growth can lead to a decline in personal integrity, health, and happiness, paralleling the decay of civilizations.

  • How does the soul body develop?

    The soul body grows through personal achievements, ethical living, and continuous small victories over moral and spiritual challenges.

  • What metaphor is used to depict the soul's progression in the body?

    The soul progresses like the branches of a beanstalk extending from the earth to the heavens, symbolizing personal spiritual growth.

  • What connection is made between societal issues and individual soul development?

    Societal problems stem from collective neglect of individual integrity and personal development, with healing beginning from the self.

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    well we have a very interesting subject
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    this morning and we're paused for a
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    moment because it involves a concept
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    that has had considerable distribution
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    in Christian mysticism and that is the
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    problem of the soul in the Bible there
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    is a statement that says the soul that
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    sinneth it shall die and there is
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    another statement in another place that
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    says but the spirit returns to God who
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    gave it
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    and the problem of the difference
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    between these two definitions has been a
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    confusion two theologians for a long
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    time actually according to the ancient
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    beliefs in these matters
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    the soul was a vestment the golden
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    wedding garment the garment that was to
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    be worn to the wedding of the Lamb and
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    actually was a phase of the magnetic
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    field of the human body in other words
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    the golden wedding garment or the soul
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    was a construction that arises within
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    the magnetic field of the human aura in
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    other words as the works of goodness as
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    the desire to grow increases and the
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    individual makes certain changes and
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    improvements in his own life pattern
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    there are changes in the magnetic field
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    gradually there becomes a transformation
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    and there appears in the field a
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    luminous quality which represents the
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    goodness of our hearts and minds this
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    goodness increases as we increase in
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    righteousness and in the end it becomes
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    a luminous vestment within the magnetic
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    field or within the aura and when it
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    to this great magnitude it is called the
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    golden wedding garment now this is the
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    garment of righteousness the garment
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    that is earned by the labors of the life
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    it becomes also part of the great
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    protection which God's the individual
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    from within himself as he increases in
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    understanding and insight in all
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    practical purposes therefore the story
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    of the golden wedding garment or the
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    soul is the story of the visible changes
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    in the constitution of the magnetic
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    fields of the human body which tells us
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    of the unfoldment and development of the
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    being that has that body also the
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    magnetic field does manifest to some
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    degree in the visible world and the
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    works of the golden wedding garment are
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    the labors of righteousness as the
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    individual increases in spiritual
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    integrity
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    these Integrity's become a part of his
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    essential consciousness they are not
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    moods that arise and fail if the growth
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    is genuine these moods grow and continue
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    until the individuals in that life is
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    transmuted and transformed therefore in
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    a sense also the soul becomes the stone
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    of the philosopher the mysterious
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    alchemical mystery of the transformation
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    of all based substances into the gold of
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    wisdom therefore when we speak of the
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    victory of soul over circumstance we
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    refer to the growth of inner light over
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    the pressures and problems of outer
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    living we find gradually that the
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    strength to do it right
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    develops within ourselves we are not
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    saved so to say by some outside force or
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    by some legal or legislative change we
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    grow from within and as we grow stronger
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    from within the adversities of the
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    outside become less the golden wedding
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    garment therefore is also this
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    mysterious elixir of life one drop of
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    which transforms 10,000 times its own
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    weight these terms which are used in
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    mysticism to God the secrets from the
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    profane are also in a way mysteriously
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    correct but they represent the
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    tremendous increase of inward power
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    resulting from the transmutation of the
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    base elements of life actually therefore
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    we have to realize that under normal
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    conditions we are of this earth earthy
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    we are not bad we are not evil we are
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    like all other creatures we simply are
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    made of certain substances and these
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    substances gradually gain dominion over
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    us and we react to these pressures much
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    as the animal does or any of the other
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    kingdoms of nature but these pressures
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    while they are present in the human
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    being are balanced by a tremendous power
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    within the human being that is not
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    present in the other kingdoms in the
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    other kingdoms this greater power is
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    left with Group spirits or powers that
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    protect orders of life not individuals
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    with human beings however the protection
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    becomes individual this is one of the
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    ways in which we distinct distinguish
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    humanity from all the other kingdoms of
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    nature humanity has the power of
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    redemption within itself and each
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    individual has the power of redemption
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    within himself he must develop this
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    power and must strengthen it
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    I must permitted to manifest out into
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    his daily life and when he does so he
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    achieves the transmutation of the base
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    substances of his body now base of
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    stances in this case though does not
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    mean evil substances
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    it simply means matter material
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    substance as it is in earth and in
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    ground beneath our feet it is the
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    natural substance of the natural world
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    but the individual is not of this though
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    it may seem like flat these root is in
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    material things actually as protein Asst
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    tells us in his essay on the beautiful
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    while the roots of man are in the earth
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    the flower and the seed is in heaven
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    and the gradual growth up this desert
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    he's told in one of the European
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    folklore stories Jack and the Beanstalk
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    the Beanstalk being the symbol of the
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    spine with its various chakras and
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    centers actually however the soul
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    constitutes the some of the things we
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    have done well it is the sum of the
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    victories little ones mostly by rich
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    which added together becomes the basis
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    of redemption the individual in other
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    words must save himself he cannot be
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    saved by any outside power nor can he be
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    destroyed by any outside power he must
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    grow according to his own inward life
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    and the powers that were bestowed upon
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    him when he was set forth as a creature
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    in this great world each individual
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    therefore is building his own wedding
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    garment he's building his own soul out
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    of his come out of his departments out
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    of his way of life out of the parts of
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    his nature out of all these
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    circumstances which occur to him every
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    day life is a series of small victories
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    over doubts uncertainties temptations
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    wherever there is a victory there is
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    another flash of light in the soul body
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    and gradually this body becomes luminous
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    like the Christmas tree which you lose
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    their uses to describe it this is all
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    body then is it gradually building up
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    and out of its building comes the
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    securities of life out of the power of
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    this increasing soul body comes the
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    power to still improve more rapidly and
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    make further growth the important
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    of man is growing up in him in a
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    mysterious substance his bodies have a
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    material immortality in the earth his
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    spirit has an implement a latina and
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    between these two is the soul the bridge
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    the mysterious elixir of transformation
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    which we find in our daily living I
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    think it is well therefore to remember
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    that even small nice things nicely done
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    are important it is important when the
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    unkind word is not spoken it is
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    important when the individual gives the
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    small deed of goodness which may be a
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    momentary inconvenience it is important
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    that the person receives the insight and
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    the wisdom to recognize that every small
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    victory added to all other small
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    victories forms the great victory which
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    we call salvation salvation is nothing
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    therefore but the victory of reality
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    over illusion the victims victory of the
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    truth over error the victory of
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    unselfishness over selfishness is in
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    every case is the victory of the
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    negative over those things which are
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    positive and contribute to the common
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    good therefore we think of the soul now
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    as a mysterious luminous vestment and we
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    know by going back to the ancient
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    writings and the ancient pictures on the
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    walls of temples and in Scrolls of
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    ancient times that these pictures
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    showing the robes of royalty showing the
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    vestments of the high priests of Israel
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    showing the wonderful garments of glory
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    of the Indian sages all these are
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    pictures of this mysterious magnetic
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    internal soul garment the individual
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    according to the ancient catalysts and
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    mystics mystics cannot enter Heaven in
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    the physical body alone therefore he
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    must leave the physical and go forth in
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    the robe of glory and the robe of glory
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    is
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    first a plain white garment the garment
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    of innocence the garment of purity the
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    garment of the effort not to do that
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    which is wrong to perf Yura fie the life
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    to live constantly in the light of
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    reality after a while this garment is
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    given a further development and in these
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    description of the Tabernacle in the
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    wilderness we find the description of
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    the garments of the priests and of the
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    high priests of the tabernacle and the
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    sample of Solomon the King we find
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    similar descriptions in Egypt also in
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    India and China mysterious glory 'full
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    great and stately symbols all of which
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    were recognized about them physical
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    representations of the invisible
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    energies that emanate from a redeemed
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    person now a redeemed person is not one
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    who saved by something the redeemed
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    person is a one who outgrows these
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    limitations of which he has placed upon
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    his own life we all view ourselves in
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    one way or another we think of ourselves
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    as well as we know ourselves we look in
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    the mirror and we say this is my self
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    and this is not true the what we are
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    seeing is a shadow and because of the
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    eyes see only shadows this is all of the
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    being that we see a mystic or
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    clairvoyant under certain conditions may
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    see more but for the average person the
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    visible form which we behold is the real
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    self it is this same self that dictates
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    our appetites that demands our attention
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    that if we requires that we fulfill its
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    ambitions it is the shadow that has an
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    appetite which can result in physical
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    ailments it is this shadow that breaks
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    homes it is this shadow that breaks laws
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    it is this shadow also that perpetuates
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    the distance between the individual and
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    the happiness and truth we are all
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    seeking so in this shadow is the power
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    of darkness
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    and it has no reality whatsoever it has
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    merely the fact that we do not have the
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    eyes to see and as baby says those who
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    have eyes let them see because all of
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    these things that we talk about are
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    available to the eyes of the soul but
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    they are not available to the eyes of
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    the mind and the eyes of the soul to
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    meet the old requirements a development
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    of faculties that are latent until they
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    are developed by the unfoldment of the
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    integrity of personal life the magnetic
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    field of the individual begins very
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    largely as a physical support it is
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    something to nourish the body to
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    maintain it and to protect it gradually
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    as the time goes on after one embodiment
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    or another this egg magnetic field
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    begins to read register the moral
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    qualities of life it gradually begins to
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    show the colors of good and evil it
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    begins to represent the part of us which
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    is invisible and tells us the sad story
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    of ourselves the story of the individual
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    who in the midst of a great wisdom
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    remains untouched by the truths that he
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    needs so badly and in our present day
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    with the pressures and confusions of the
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    hour it is obvious that there must be a
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    victory of soul over body there must be
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    a victory of cause over the effect there
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    must be a victory of realities over
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    illusions now we live largely in a world
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    of illusions and in a sense as we have a
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    physical existence now all the elements
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    that make it up all the habits that we
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    have all the institutions we maintain
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    the entertainment we choose the ideas of
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    Education we keep all of these apart and
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    what might be called the obscuration of
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    ignorance and they are part of the
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    negative individual magnetic field while
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    we live in the negative
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    field we react to the negative factors
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    and little by little these negative
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    factors destroy us or at least the
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    impoverished the spiritual values within
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    ourselves until finally inside of
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    ourselves the colors and luminous forms
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    of the magnetic air fields become
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    clouded and dark and dismal the magnetic
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    field of the narcotics addict is another
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    pathetic thing the in our Kotik field of
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    the person who has not no integrities no
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    values who lives upon the surface of
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    ignorances is bad and also this magnetic
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    field being negative perpetuates itself
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    from within itself and little by little
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    the individual who has gradually become
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    more and more vicious finds that his
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    viciousness increases and so finally he
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    reaches a point where he must change or
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    lose the values of the incarnations
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    through which he has passed so there
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    comes a time in this rather strange
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    affair when there has to be a shift
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    between negative and positive there has
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    to be the movement on the part of the
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    individual to put his own inner life in
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    order he's going to have to realize that
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    there is no way of escaping the
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    consequences of his own misdeeds he can
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    escape the terrors of dictators and the
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    terrors of their clouds and sky but he
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    cannot escape the catch of the terrors
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    of his own conduct so little by little
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    the individual finds a pain arising
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    within himself the magnetic field is
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    troubled and in its trouble it fails to
  • 00:17:21
    support the personal the personality the
  • 00:17:25
    magnetic field along the personally
  • 00:17:27
    develops and therefore it's not there to
  • 00:17:30
    take care of health problems the
  • 00:17:33
    energies of the magnetic and etheric
  • 00:17:36
    fields are no longer protect the person
  • 00:17:39
    against infections and things of that
  • 00:17:42
    game
  • 00:17:42
    little by little of their positive power
  • 00:17:44
    has been drained off
  • 00:17:46
    little by little area every ounce of
  • 00:17:49
    energy which they possessed has been
  • 00:17:51
    misused until there is nothing left
  • 00:17:54
    under these conditions that comes always
  • 00:17:56
    a time in the life of the individual
  • 00:17:58
    where he must change to survive and it
  • 00:18:02
    very often happens that this change for
  • 00:18:05
    survival is not accomplished until the
  • 00:18:08
    deathbed scene there before the end of
  • 00:18:11
    everything as far he knows he suddenly
  • 00:18:14
    realizes the fundamental mistake he has
  • 00:18:16
    made his faith is not great enough to
  • 00:18:20
    reveal the fact that no matter what he
  • 00:18:22
    has done
  • 00:18:23
    salvation is inevitable he must go on
  • 00:18:26
    until he grows up to what he should be
  • 00:18:28
    and while he disappears out of this life
  • 00:18:31
    perhaps in a very sad state ultimate
  • 00:18:35
    victory is inevitable for everything
  • 00:18:37
    that is created by the divine mind and
  • 00:18:40
    the divine hand must come through it
  • 00:18:43
    must fulfill its purpose it must achieve
  • 00:18:46
    that for which it was intended and so we
  • 00:18:49
    find that the individual physically
  • 00:18:52
    shows gradually the results of a sellout
  • 00:18:56
    he no longer has good health he no
  • 00:19:00
    longer has peace of mind
  • 00:19:02
    he has fears he has dreams he has
  • 00:19:04
    nightmares he develops all kinds of
  • 00:19:07
    habits in an effort to encourage some
  • 00:19:10
    kind of help or strength but this
  • 00:19:14
    kuipers has strength inspired by
  • 00:19:17
    narcotics and alcohol will never get him
  • 00:19:21
    anywhere little by little everything
  • 00:19:24
    gets worse and worse until finally the
  • 00:19:27
    individual stripped of all of his that
  • 00:19:30
    energies and powers by the abuse of them
  • 00:19:33
    comes must to face himself and he must
  • 00:19:36
    do so now we also have therefore another
  • 00:19:39
    interesting analogy to make after all
  • 00:19:42
    the world as we know it is also a being
  • 00:19:47
    the planet in which we live
  • 00:19:50
    is a person not a person is renoise but
  • 00:19:54
    a person as an integration of various
  • 00:19:57
    conscious attributes sufficient to
  • 00:20:00
    navel in to maintain its essential
  • 00:20:02
    purpose to support life in space now
  • 00:20:06
    this planet also is subject to the
  • 00:20:11
    results of the confusion and the misuse
  • 00:20:15
    of power which we find around us every
  • 00:20:19
    day the planet has its golden wedding
  • 00:20:22
    garment it also has its magnetic field
  • 00:20:25
    its order and its robes of righteousness
  • 00:20:28
    but it is also gradually damaged just as
  • 00:20:32
    the person is damaged by the failure of
  • 00:20:35
    the Integrity's of life now in the case
  • 00:20:39
    of the planet that is somewhat different
  • 00:20:40
    the planet has a new relationship and
  • 00:20:44
    that relationship is as a host or as we
  • 00:20:47
    might say a guardian or a parent over
  • 00:20:50
    forms of life which develop and unfold
  • 00:20:53
    within it so that the planet itself is
  • 00:20:56
    really a place for things to grow and
  • 00:21:00
    live and develop now when these things
  • 00:21:03
    that are put here to live and grow and
  • 00:21:05
    develop go bad when little by little all
  • 00:21:09
    of the opportunities that have been
  • 00:21:11
    given by nature are perverted and
  • 00:21:14
    misused then the earth becomes ill it
  • 00:21:19
    becomes incapable of fulfilling its
  • 00:21:22
    proper destiny it cannot do for us the
  • 00:21:25
    things that it should do because we have
  • 00:21:27
    drained away all of its resources in
  • 00:21:29
    misuse we have exhausted its strength
  • 00:21:33
    its beauty its wisdom its love all of
  • 00:21:35
    these things until there is nothing left
  • 00:21:38
    and we have only bodies empty bodies
  • 00:21:41
    with it's empty minds and in those
  • 00:21:44
    moments of great decision the laws of
  • 00:21:48
    life move in the law says it is not
  • 00:21:52
    possible to fail they can be delays they
  • 00:21:56
    can be mistakes but in the long run
  • 00:21:59
    things must come through that which is
  • 00:22:03
    created by the mother divine power will
  • 00:22:06
    never rest until the divinity within it
  • 00:22:08
    gained supremacy over all the rest and
  • 00:22:12
    so we have what we might call
  • 00:22:14
    emergencies these emergencies are Wars
  • 00:22:18
    pestilences their health problems
  • 00:22:21
    weather problems earthquakes all kinds
  • 00:22:25
    of indications of trouble they
  • 00:22:28
    correspond very closely with the nervous
  • 00:22:31
    breakdowns of individuals they have
  • 00:22:34
    their parallel in the ulcers and the
  • 00:22:37
    abscesses that torment us they also is
  • 00:22:41
    the we sweep through the sky they have
  • 00:22:43
    the migraines that the despair are in
  • 00:22:46
    space also in other words a sick planet
  • 00:22:50
    is more or less revealed in the sickness
  • 00:22:53
    of things that live upon it and those
  • 00:22:56
    things that live by sickness and live on
  • 00:22:59
    a sick planet must be corrected they
  • 00:23:01
    cannot be allowed to go until they
  • 00:23:04
    destroy it is possible according to the
  • 00:23:07
    ancient writings for a race or a nation
  • 00:23:11
    to vanish from its own misdeeds but the
  • 00:23:15
    life in that nation cannot vanish the
  • 00:23:18
    powers of living and growing go on and
  • 00:23:21
    there is not one single fallen angel
  • 00:23:24
    that must not be redeemed and so
  • 00:23:27
    gradually those things that fail utterly
  • 00:23:29
    fade away and in their place come new
  • 00:23:33
    things in which there is a greater
  • 00:23:35
    amount of integrity we are in such a
  • 00:23:38
    state at the moment today we are facing
  • 00:23:40
    again the result of continual abuse of
  • 00:23:45
    resources we are in the same position as
  • 00:23:49
    the old alcoholic who has continually
  • 00:23:52
    gone on drinking until he has nothing
  • 00:23:55
    left but ulcers and pain years ago in
  • 00:24:02
    the Klondike was a successful gold miner
  • 00:24:07
    who found it rich and live riotously for
  • 00:24:12
    a couple of years and got very ill and
  • 00:24:16
    the little paint for the puny doctor up
  • 00:24:19
    there said there's only one thing for
  • 00:24:20
    you to do get to my oatmeal brothers and
  • 00:24:23
    have let them take care of it
  • 00:24:25
    so he went to male brothers and they I
  • 00:24:27
    took about 2/3 of his stomach and they
  • 00:24:30
    said to him if you live on milk toast
  • 00:24:32
    for the rest of your life you can have
  • 00:24:34
    quite a few years yet and he was so
  • 00:24:37
    delighted that he went home and on his
  • 00:24:39
    arrival staged a banquet for all his
  • 00:24:42
    friends they all got beautifully drugged
  • 00:24:44
    together and the next morning he was
  • 00:24:46
    dead now this is symbolic of way things
  • 00:24:50
    go and it is symbolic in a way of the
  • 00:24:55
    plans of nature which are very simple
  • 00:24:58
    very obvious but have strange truth
  • 00:25:01
    behind them an inevitable fact that you
  • 00:25:05
    have to obey or else now when you find a
  • 00:25:09
    country or a world as it is today it is
  • 00:25:13
    the same thing in Nations and implant
  • 00:25:17
    Airy populations as it is in towns and
  • 00:25:20
    in our private homes always where there
  • 00:25:23
    is something wrong the inner life of the
  • 00:25:26
    person if it is injured and this golden
  • 00:25:31
    wedding garments this soul body which we
  • 00:25:34
    are gradually building up is damaged and
  • 00:25:37
    delayed and frustrated by the excesses
  • 00:25:40
    of a poor and unthoughtful generation we
  • 00:25:45
    have every possible way to understand
  • 00:25:48
    this we have it every day we have it in
  • 00:25:52
    every newspaper it comes to us every
  • 00:25:55
    time we turn anything it's a troubled
  • 00:25:57
    world but what the records do not
  • 00:26:01
    necessarily tell us is the troubled
  • 00:26:04
    individuals the persons we know in the
  • 00:26:08
    same block passively under the same skin
  • 00:26:11
    we do not recognize as in as passing
  • 00:26:16
    through the same kind of crisis the
  • 00:26:19
    crisis in the person becomes the crisis
  • 00:26:22
    in the race and those mysterious powers
  • 00:26:25
    that destroyed the lost Atlantis
  • 00:26:27
    unknowing at the roots of our
  • 00:26:29
    civilization everywhere there has to be
  • 00:26:32
    integrity or in time when it becomes
  • 00:26:36
    obvious
  • 00:26:37
    the individual or the cube will not
  • 00:26:40
    redeem itself then it is put away and
  • 00:26:42
    another takes its place but that other
  • 00:26:45
    is the same one with a new chance a new
  • 00:26:49
    opportunity and a new environment but
  • 00:26:51
    usually a more strenuous lesson so in
  • 00:26:56
    the study of all these things we
  • 00:26:58
    sometimes also say to ourselves why
  • 00:27:01
    should we try to improve our natures why
  • 00:27:04
    are we all studying in the effort to be
  • 00:27:07
    a little more than we have been we are
  • 00:27:10
    studying very definitely because inside
  • 00:27:12
    of us is something that is suffering
  • 00:27:15
    there is pain in the heart in the mind
  • 00:27:18
    there is worry there is anxiety and
  • 00:27:22
    there are constant compromises of
  • 00:27:25
    integrity with bitter consequences all
  • 00:27:28
    these things are happening to us every
  • 00:27:30
    day and we do not know what to have to
  • 00:27:34
    do about it
  • 00:27:34
    we feel that there should be someone
  • 00:27:37
    make a law to put these things straight
  • 00:27:39
    this is impossible because we cannot
  • 00:27:42
    make laws for each other we must make a
  • 00:27:45
    law for ourselves and live it and the
  • 00:27:48
    only remedy for the problem is not to
  • 00:27:51
    try to legislate out of it but to get
  • 00:27:53
    out of it
  • 00:27:54
    through the positive application of
  • 00:27:56
    principles to our own conduct and this
  • 00:27:59
    is beginning to get more or less obvious
  • 00:28:01
    we are beginning to see that a beautiful
  • 00:28:05
    plan is endangered endangered by the
  • 00:28:08
    selfishness and cupidity of individuals
  • 00:28:11
    and that stupidity and selfishness
  • 00:28:14
    arises from the magnetic field this
  • 00:28:17
    magnetic field is the first source of
  • 00:28:20
    this sickness it is the result of
  • 00:28:23
    eternal compromise and eternal
  • 00:28:25
    selfishness unbridled ambition every
  • 00:28:29
    type of corruption and demoralization
  • 00:28:32
    these things have sickened the source of
  • 00:28:35
    our vitality they have sickened the
  • 00:28:38
    invisible supplies which we require in
  • 00:28:41
    order to grow and fulfill our destiny
  • 00:28:44
    now these ailments are well known to the
  • 00:28:48
    ancients we find in the
  • 00:28:51
    is Linux if Epocrates and later in the
  • 00:28:54
    writings of Paracelsus fun hard line
  • 00:28:57
    that they were the ancients were well
  • 00:28:59
    aware that the great source of our pain
  • 00:29:03
    is inside not in the world that the
  • 00:29:07
    world suffers because we are wrong and
  • 00:29:10
    that we are suffering because not the of
  • 00:29:12
    the sellers of the world but of our own
  • 00:29:15
    failure to put our own lives in order
  • 00:29:17
    now we have a new world civilization
  • 00:29:20
    here today that is the most complicated
  • 00:29:22
    that man has ever known a civilization
  • 00:29:25
    in which all kinds of conflicting ideas
  • 00:29:28
    float about in the air in which nations
  • 00:29:32
    are ready to go to war to the death over
  • 00:29:34
    wealth of power authority and out and
  • 00:29:38
    this is just a little bit of an
  • 00:29:40
    enlargement of the ruthlessness of the
  • 00:29:43
    individual who moving in upon a
  • 00:29:45
    competitor
  • 00:29:46
    seeks to destroy him the selfishness of
  • 00:29:49
    the individual multiplied becomes a vast
  • 00:29:52
    host of beings that fit properly with
  • 00:29:57
    perpetuate selfishness it's in space and
  • 00:30:00
    all around us now the planet itself is
  • 00:30:03
    sickened on the earth under our feet is
  • 00:30:05
    corrupted now there's only one way we
  • 00:30:08
    can solve this and that is to make the
  • 00:30:11
    changes in ourselves
  • 00:30:13
    and we can say perhaps with what so what
  • 00:30:16
    supposing a few of us do make these
  • 00:30:18
    changes why are we going to face the
  • 00:30:21
    millions who are not going to change
  • 00:30:22
    they're going to go on and do it wrong
  • 00:30:24
    as long as they can well the answer is
  • 00:30:28
    very very simple what they do they must
  • 00:30:32
    face but when we change that change is
  • 00:30:36
    personal and to ourselves no matter how
  • 00:30:40
    bad the rest get get we can get better
  • 00:30:43
    no matter how many mistakes they make we
  • 00:30:47
    do not need to make them and the proof
  • 00:30:49
    of the matter is that's at the great
  • 00:30:51
    harvest time when it comes for us to go
  • 00:30:54
    and join the ages in the sleep between
  • 00:30:56
    incarnations we will take with us
  • 00:30:59
    everything that is good and nothing that
  • 00:31:02
    is not our own can
  • 00:31:03
    no us therefore even though in life we
  • 00:31:06
    are penalized in the great life of
  • 00:31:08
    things we are rewarded and it is better
  • 00:31:12
    to be rewarded for the good things that
  • 00:31:15
    you continue to suffer the penalize
  • 00:31:18
    ation that we must all you suffer well
  • 00:31:21
    all these things go wrong so here we
  • 00:31:24
    have religion religion which is probably
  • 00:31:28
    the world's most beautiful source of
  • 00:31:30
    inspiration divided into sects and
  • 00:31:33
    creeds with various mysterious social
  • 00:31:38
    changes with roars Andreas and Intel in
  • 00:31:43
    tolerances of all kinds religion which
  • 00:31:47
    should be the source of unity and
  • 00:31:49
    goodness is likewise divided and that
  • 00:31:52
    religion which is divided will fall just
  • 00:31:56
    as all the other things for and when it
  • 00:31:59
    does fall people will say it was
  • 00:32:01
    reformed by some mysterious divine power
  • 00:32:04
    it was reformed because each individual
  • 00:32:07
    who understood the facts changed their
  • 00:32:10
    attitude and in changing their attitude
  • 00:32:13
    changed the course the destiny of the
  • 00:32:15
    faith everything begins with the
  • 00:32:18
    improvement of the individual
  • 00:32:20
    this is his realm this was created for
  • 00:32:23
    his perfection this was put up into
  • 00:32:26
    existence that he might grow and earn
  • 00:32:28
    his place in the great house of the
  • 00:32:31
    cosmos everything that is good was come
  • 00:32:34
    through him and it will come to him from
  • 00:32:37
    the great sources of good and thumbs
  • 00:32:40
    eight sages and the Rishi's of the
  • 00:32:43
    savior's who have come to teach mankind
  • 00:32:45
    have come to bring encouragement and
  • 00:32:48
    strength and redemption
  • 00:32:50
    it is like the alcoholic of becoming
  • 00:32:53
    very badly sick you will bring in
  • 00:32:56
    somebody to console him and try to help
  • 00:32:58
    him to get over it so he would really in
  • 00:33:00
    the physician or something will tell him
  • 00:33:02
    to stop drinking and try to help him to
  • 00:33:04
    stop so that he can go out and redeem
  • 00:33:06
    himself and go forward so there are
  • 00:33:09
    physicians of souls who have come to
  • 00:33:12
    help us not to do it for us because they
  • 00:33:15
    cannot
  • 00:33:16
    but to inspire us to make the changes
  • 00:33:18
    ourselves which are essential to our
  • 00:33:21
    well-being just a little change here and
  • 00:33:25
    there in our social structure would cut
  • 00:33:27
    down our divorce rate probably fifty
  • 00:33:29
    percent a little change not some of our
  • 00:33:32
    rules about this and that would probably
  • 00:33:34
    cut down most of the problems that we
  • 00:33:37
    suffer the juvenile delinquency these
  • 00:33:40
    things represent neglected areas and
  • 00:33:43
    we're waiting for something we're
  • 00:33:45
    waiting for laws and the government
  • 00:33:48
    months to change these things but the
  • 00:33:50
    only person who can change them is the
  • 00:33:53
    family itself it's the United gathering
  • 00:33:57
    of the parents and the children bound
  • 00:34:00
    together to do what is right and
  • 00:34:02
    although there may be many who fall upon
  • 00:34:06
    the right hand and many upon the left
  • 00:34:09
    hand the just family shall not be moved
  • 00:34:12
    all that the achievements we can make if
  • 00:34:16
    they are right are immortal that is one
  • 00:34:20
    of the mysteries of the old writings
  • 00:34:22
    that every time a truth was demonstrated
  • 00:34:26
    it received wings it became an angel and
  • 00:34:29
    truths become immortal the realities
  • 00:34:33
    become immortal and those who cling to
  • 00:34:36
    them are those who live with them gain
  • 00:34:38
    their own immortality that which is true
  • 00:34:41
    shall not die that which is false cannot
  • 00:34:44
    live this goes through nations it goes
  • 00:34:47
    through everything it becomes part of
  • 00:34:49
    our priceless heritage it becomes part
  • 00:34:52
    of our hope of glory so we know that
  • 00:34:55
    today we are at a critical point and
  • 00:34:59
    that all the available resources of
  • 00:35:02
    civilization must be united to achieve a
  • 00:35:06
    positive transformation of our purpose
  • 00:35:10
    for existence
  • 00:35:11
    we will not see so perish if we do not
  • 00:35:15
    make the grade but we will go back again
  • 00:35:17
    into a hard labor into struggle and
  • 00:35:21
    strife to gain once more the to to the
  • 00:35:25
    degree that we are now abusing the
  • 00:35:27
    knowledge and wisdom zuv life
  • 00:35:30
    as long as a result finesse there will
  • 00:35:33
    be pain as long as there is avarice they
  • 00:35:36
    will be suffering as long as there are
  • 00:35:40
    hatreds there will be sorrows every one
  • 00:35:44
    of the negative things has to be
  • 00:35:46
    overcome and the old schools of wisdom
  • 00:35:49
    set up discipleship and set up various
  • 00:35:53
    rules and laws to govern the development
  • 00:35:57
    of persons who wanted to grow who wanted
  • 00:36:00
    to be better and all of these were based
  • 00:36:03
    upon the fact that the person himself
  • 00:36:06
    had to make the effort he had to really
  • 00:36:09
    sincerely decide he was not even able to
  • 00:36:13
    try to find out what he whether what he
  • 00:36:16
    was doing was really right or not he had
  • 00:36:19
    to decide that for himself but if he was
  • 00:36:22
    right he grew in wisdom and
  • 00:36:26
    understanding if he was wrong he did not
  • 00:36:29
    if he did not grow he had to try again
  • 00:36:33
    everything has to come out of the
  • 00:36:35
    sincere effort to do a detain victory
  • 00:36:40
    over the self-centeredness and
  • 00:36:44
    indifference that we find we are now
  • 00:36:48
    talking a great deal about the fun
  • 00:36:50
    generation there's only one thing about
  • 00:36:53
    it that seems to be important and that
  • 00:36:55
    is there isn't much fun very little and
  • 00:36:59
    there will not be much fun as long as
  • 00:37:02
    this is the fun generation because the
  • 00:37:06
    effort for fun is not controlled by
  • 00:37:08
    anything
  • 00:37:09
    what is fun mostly extravagance but in
  • 00:37:14
    much immorality and all kinds of
  • 00:37:18
    competitions and spread mistakes in
  • 00:37:22
    labor and work the entertainment field
  • 00:37:25
    all these things are called
  • 00:37:27
    the fun and I can assure you from
  • 00:37:30
    watching a little television now and
  • 00:37:31
    then that the fun in television is not
  • 00:37:34
    very much in fact I hadn't heard a good
  • 00:37:37
    comedian down there years because good
  • 00:37:40
    comedy has to be honest
  • 00:37:42
    it has to be true and it has to be good
  • 00:37:44
    as Mark Twain going to damage and what
  • 00:37:47
    we thought comedy is a snickering sort
  • 00:37:50
    of thing is never be going to be any
  • 00:37:52
    good
  • 00:37:53
    and yet we spend hundreds of hours in
  • 00:37:55
    front of these boxes taking on the
  • 00:37:58
    murders can sell the selfishness of our
  • 00:38:01
    time and we try against that to take
  • 00:38:05
    this little seed of immortality in
  • 00:38:07
    ourselves and expected to survive this
  • 00:38:11
    countess bump the constant and
  • 00:38:13
    continuous bombardment of negative
  • 00:38:16
    factors and each person can have his own
  • 00:38:19
    way now I know for instance over a long
  • 00:38:23
    period of time I was interested in
  • 00:38:25
    having a little fun at working with any
  • 00:38:30
    problems can be rather heavy and I
  • 00:38:34
    realized that if it got too heavy I
  • 00:38:37
    wasn't going to be able to do what I
  • 00:38:40
    should do that I would can't really get
  • 00:38:43
    too tired that I might get a little
  • 00:38:45
    naggy now and then I might even believe
  • 00:38:48
    them at this position not that I have a
  • 00:38:50
    head one but it's really there's always
  • 00:38:53
    a possibility of it being worse then I
  • 00:38:56
    suddenly discovered the world of other
  • 00:38:58
    things the people that are now wandering
  • 00:39:01
    around in all these fun actions are
  • 00:39:05
    really not having much fun at all
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    they're really very largely spending
  • 00:39:10
    money and waking up in debt and those
  • 00:39:14
    who spend enough money waking up sick
  • 00:39:17
    and those who are very wealthy we are
  • 00:39:20
    waking up judge is not a very
  • 00:39:23
    progressive a very progressive problem
  • 00:39:26
    so we suggest looking around there are
  • 00:39:29
    all kinds of interesting and wonderful
  • 00:39:31
    things to do things that help us to
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    learn and we can go back to the old
  • 00:39:36
    guild system that dominated Europe for
  • 00:39:39
    centuries that there was there was a joy
  • 00:39:42
    in labor and also there were various
  • 00:39:45
    ways of growing beautifully and
  • 00:39:48
    pleasantly remember the Meister singers
  • 00:39:51
    of Nuremberg they were the actual the
  • 00:39:56
    workers shoemakers and carpenters all
  • 00:39:59
    these people but they form music
  • 00:40:01
    choruses and had a wonderful time with
  • 00:40:03
    them and all kinds of special
  • 00:40:07
    celebrations and even the great gentry
  • 00:40:10
    participated then they're all today
  • 00:40:12
    there are all kinds of things
  • 00:40:14
    music fine literature there are all
  • 00:40:18
    kinds of things to collect there are
  • 00:40:19
    hobbies and everything by which you can
  • 00:40:21
    learn something by which you can grow in
  • 00:40:25
    which you can combine pleasure with
  • 00:40:27
    instruction and come out of the whole
  • 00:40:29
    thing a little bit better enlightened
  • 00:40:32
    and with a new appreciation for the
  • 00:40:34
    wonders of life but instead of that we
  • 00:40:37
    sit glued to the tube and there we sit
  • 00:40:40
    and watch mayhem that isn't even real
  • 00:40:43
    that is merely written compiled and
  • 00:40:46
    presented for the simple purpose of
  • 00:40:49
    selling products it is a very bad thing
  • 00:40:52
    we are falling for it but we must be as
  • 00:40:56
    individuals pull out of it and if we do
  • 00:40:59
    pull out of it we will discover that we
  • 00:41:02
    have never captured in it unless we
  • 00:41:04
    capture ourselves that there is no
  • 00:41:06
    reason why the magnetic fields of the
  • 00:41:09
    body should be contaminated there are no
  • 00:41:12
    reasons that for why the individual has
  • 00:41:15
    the Lord his moral code in order to keep
  • 00:41:18
    abreast of his time if his time is below
  • 00:41:21
    him he must rise above his time if there
  • 00:41:25
    are things that he should be doing and
  • 00:41:26
    he is neglecting to have a fun that is
  • 00:41:29
    never there it is time for him to wake
  • 00:41:31
    up know this the answer has always been
  • 00:41:35
    you can't leave all these people you get
  • 00:41:38
    one start started and you put a law in
  • 00:41:41
    and you think you've got something
  • 00:41:43
    blocked and immediately somebody that
  • 00:41:46
    comes up and objects and there's a great
  • 00:41:48
    big political system a big congregation
  • 00:41:51
    of voters and so forth and of course in
  • 00:41:54
    math of this nature the majority is
  • 00:41:57
    liable the rule of the majority is
  • 00:41:59
    liable not to be right therefore that
  • 00:42:03
    isn't the answer you can't simply make a
  • 00:42:06
    law against this the law against that
  • 00:42:08
    what but you can do is make a law for
  • 00:42:12
    yourself
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    and I believe it was Woodrow Wilson who
  • 00:42:17
    said on one occasion it is better to
  • 00:42:20
    fail in the cause that must ultimately
  • 00:42:22
    win than win in a cause that must
  • 00:42:25
    ultimately fail and we have this problem
  • 00:42:29
    on our hands today we have mixed up in
  • 00:42:32
    it cause that must fail and we cannot
  • 00:42:36
    necessarily depend upon others to see it
  • 00:42:40
    our way but we can try in every way
  • 00:42:43
    possible to contribute nothing to the
  • 00:42:46
    decay of life do everything that we can
  • 00:42:49
    to make it better do everything that we
  • 00:42:52
    can to make ourselves more fit for the
  • 00:42:56
    job that is ours if we could see the
  • 00:42:58
    invisible structure of man mr. Mendes
  • 00:43:01
    amount of vibratory power there ages
  • 00:43:05
    that were necessary to build all these
  • 00:43:07
    bodies and vibrate them vitalize them so
  • 00:43:11
    that we could produce a standing
  • 00:43:13
    thinking feeling creature that had
  • 00:43:15
    within itself the germs of its own
  • 00:43:18
    immortality we have all these things but
  • 00:43:22
    we have not kept faith with them and
  • 00:43:25
    because we have not kept faith with them
  • 00:43:27
    we must now go back and start over and
  • 00:43:31
    we cannot be blamed for doing what is
  • 00:43:34
    right ourselves if the world doesn't
  • 00:43:37
    like it it won't bother us because we
  • 00:43:40
    are only one person but that one person
  • 00:43:44
    being right is the secret of the
  • 00:43:47
    beginning of righteousness or in ancient
  • 00:43:50
    times there were a few who were the
  • 00:43:52
    great souls that led today we are in a
  • 00:43:56
    different world we are now in a world in
  • 00:43:59
    which great Souls must arise from the
  • 00:44:02
    common people of the earth and in so
  • 00:44:05
    doing will make the simple laws of
  • 00:44:07
    humanity dominant over the artificial
  • 00:44:11
    laws and practices of our generation
  • 00:44:15
    I think we have to therefore recognize
  • 00:44:18
    that it is our part to build this soul
  • 00:44:21
    body that is within our right and our
  • 00:44:24
    privilege to control the development of
  • 00:44:29
    our own inner lives although all others
  • 00:44:33
    may be unhappy we may still be a little
  • 00:44:36
    unhappy but if we are doing the best
  • 00:44:39
    that we can there is a certain reward a
  • 00:44:42
    good deed is a prayer a bad deed is a
  • 00:44:46
    curse we've had too many curses and not
  • 00:44:50
    enough prayers and a prayer for good is
  • 00:44:53
    in the simple things we do to help a
  • 00:44:56
    person in trouble to help our own
  • 00:44:59
    children to stay within the principles
  • 00:45:01
    of integrity to start them out right and
  • 00:45:05
    not allow them to follow in the ways of
  • 00:45:07
    our own slipshod behavior everything
  • 00:45:11
    that we can do as an individual we can
  • 00:45:14
    do without much probability of being
  • 00:45:16
    punished for it whereas most of the
  • 00:45:19
    things we are doing now punishment is
  • 00:45:21
    inevitable and obvious I just try doing
  • 00:45:24
    it right let us try to be one with
  • 00:45:28
    progress one with the law and in the
  • 00:45:32
    mysterious wedding of the Lamb which is
  • 00:45:36
    described in the book of Revelation and
  • 00:45:38
    which is part of our Christian heritage
  • 00:45:41
    those who attain the old and wedding
  • 00:45:45
    garment from his front great hosts of
  • 00:45:48
    souls luminous and beautiful to attend
  • 00:45:52
    the marriage of the Lamb
  • 00:45:53
    and this is the idea of it all the
  • 00:45:57
    marriage of the lamb is simply the union
  • 00:45:59
    of the individual soul with the world
  • 00:46:02
    soul and the return of the individual
  • 00:46:05
    spirit to the spirit which is all spirit
  • 00:46:09
    always and forever the guiding power of
  • 00:46:13
    life we do not know where our life is
  • 00:46:16
    going exactly we know where it will go
  • 00:46:19
    for a time at least if it doesn't change
  • 00:46:21
    its ways but we do not know what lies
  • 00:46:24
    ahead but the human being
  • 00:46:26
    but all of the great teachers of the
  • 00:46:29
    world have given us a radiant glorious a
  • 00:46:33
    picture of that which is waiting us
  • 00:46:35
    they've all given us the vision of that
  • 00:46:40
    which comes to those who transcend the
  • 00:46:43
    errors and follies of their times and we
  • 00:46:47
    have been given several great religions
  • 00:46:49
    which may differ the names they have
  • 00:46:52
    given but are essential and identical in
  • 00:46:55
    their teaching that it's only those who
  • 00:46:59
    live the life that can never know the
  • 00:47:01
    doctrine so in little ways we can start
  • 00:47:04
    living it and into living it little ways
  • 00:47:07
    we will grow in righteousness so this is
  • 00:47:12
    our job
  • 00:47:14
    this is nothing so terribly difficult
  • 00:47:16
    all we have to do is to prepare to live
  • 00:47:20
    quiet moderate lives false ambitions
  • 00:47:25
    have slayed in the ages the glory of the
  • 00:47:28
    olexander is gone Caesar is dead at
  • 00:47:31
    pompey's Paulo Hitler Mussolini have
  • 00:47:35
    gone their way all of the great
  • 00:47:38
    dictators have left and left nothing
  • 00:47:41
    behind but monuments to Sodom little
  • 00:47:45
    dictators have the same fate those who
  • 00:47:48
    create the business and then bankrupt it
  • 00:47:51
    for profit all kinds of efforts to grow
  • 00:47:54
    rich over the poverty of others all of
  • 00:47:57
    these things are part of the way of life
  • 00:48:00
    that has controlled come to too many
  • 00:48:04
    people though a way of life that has
  • 00:48:07
    resulted in the fact that our ingenuity
  • 00:48:09
    has outstripped our integrity we can
  • 00:48:13
    invent many things but we do not know
  • 00:48:16
    how to use them and that which we do not
  • 00:48:18
    use we will have used once upon a time
  • 00:48:22
    there was a Roman who digging in his
  • 00:48:25
    garden found a pot of gold and he wrote
  • 00:48:30
    a letter to the Emperor and he said I
  • 00:48:34
    have found a part of gold what shall I
  • 00:48:37
    do with it
  • 00:48:38
    and the Emperor wrote back and said use
  • 00:48:41
    it and the man wrote again to the
  • 00:48:45
    Emperor and since SIA
  • 00:48:47
    I do not know how to use it and the FB
  • 00:48:50
    replied then abuse it and that is
  • 00:48:55
    exactly what happens we have so many
  • 00:48:57
    ways of getting things but not very many
  • 00:49:01
    good ways of using them to have a thing
  • 00:49:04
    means the power when in reality it is an
  • 00:49:07
    opportunity to grow and then unless we
  • 00:49:10
    make more use of these opportunities
  • 00:49:11
    things are going to get worse now we
  • 00:49:15
    face a few years and a great transition
  • 00:49:18
    there is bound to be a major change
  • 00:49:21
    we're asking for it or if we're not
  • 00:49:24
    asking we're acting for it we are
  • 00:49:27
    demanding it and out of this is coming
  • 00:49:30
    some very interesting things it isn't
  • 00:49:33
    all bad news there are some tremendous
  • 00:49:36
    efforts being made now people are
  • 00:49:39
    growing as they haven't in a long time
  • 00:49:41
    there's a certain and definite reason
  • 00:49:44
    for believing that the individual is
  • 00:49:47
    beginning to know that he is not
  • 00:49:49
    something with a free will in space but
  • 00:49:53
    that he is a creature under law and that
  • 00:49:56
    this law is a law of wisdom and mercy is
  • 00:50:00
    more and more the individual is becoming
  • 00:50:03
    aware that out of his own integrity must
  • 00:50:06
    come his own salvation very realizing
  • 00:50:10
    this and living accordingly we can make
  • 00:50:13
    a very powerful and positive
  • 00:50:15
    contribution to the future of our people
  • 00:50:18
    there is no reason why we cannot do
  • 00:50:22
    something every day to justify the
  • 00:50:25
    belief that we are really working for a
  • 00:50:28
    good cause
  • 00:50:29
    now is we here are trying to do a little
  • 00:50:33
    something to help out as much as we can
  • 00:50:36
    and we are most grateful for the
  • 00:50:39
    wonderful help rear received and we
  • 00:50:42
    finally discover that in our own little
  • 00:50:44
    world there are people who want to live
  • 00:50:48
    well who want to do better the world to
  • 00:50:52
    think better we wanted to add something
  • 00:50:54
    to the substance of life they are tired
  • 00:50:57
    of the bridge party and the drink fests
  • 00:51:00
    they are tired of the waste and luxury
  • 00:51:03
    and the morning-after and they are more
  • 00:51:06
    nor hurt by the ravages of narcotics and
  • 00:51:12
    now morality has come in and the
  • 00:51:15
    sicknesses of immorality weigh heavy
  • 00:51:17
    upon the race we are midst of great avid
  • 00:51:21
    evidence of being wrong and we are also
  • 00:51:25
    well shown what is right this is the
  • 00:51:29
    dedication of some part of our life to
  • 00:51:32
    usefulness it is to maintain the things
  • 00:51:35
    we have to agree emphasis upon freedom
  • 00:51:40
    upon individual rights the individual
  • 00:51:44
    has the feeling that he is perfectly
  • 00:51:46
    justified in walking out on his family
  • 00:51:49
    deserting his friends and turning
  • 00:51:51
    against his nation simply because he
  • 00:51:53
    must be free what is freedom to him
  • 00:51:57
    freedom is the gradual building of a
  • 00:52:00
    cage which once it captured him he's
  • 00:52:03
    worse enslaved than in any other way
  • 00:52:06
    freedom is really a form of self slavery
  • 00:52:10
    for most people it is the individual
  • 00:52:13
    putting his own likes and pleasures
  • 00:52:15
    ahead of the common good and his own
  • 00:52:18
    well-being
  • 00:52:19
    so these answers are not practical in
  • 00:52:22
    our time and we're looking around and
  • 00:52:25
    we're seeing the gradual development of
  • 00:52:28
    religion in a new way
  • 00:52:31
    we are coming closer and closer to a
  • 00:52:34
    unity of faiths which will be a
  • 00:52:36
    tremendous step in the right direction
  • 00:52:38
    we are also coming to realize that
  • 00:52:42
    religion is not simply attending a place
  • 00:52:45
    of worship it is bringing the truths of
  • 00:52:48
    life into the home into the family and
  • 00:52:51
    into the business a real religion is in
  • 00:52:55
    the shop in the house in the school in
  • 00:52:58
    the hospital in the courts
  • 00:53:01
    the religion is not something to talk
  • 00:53:04
    about theology it is to live the golden
  • 00:53:08
    rule to keep the ten commandments to
  • 00:53:13
    realize that regardless of all our
  • 00:53:15
    sophistication we will never be able to
  • 00:53:19
    outgrow the Decalogue or the Sermon on
  • 00:53:22
    the Mount
  • 00:53:23
    these are inevitable and eternal
  • 00:53:25
    fixtures we can break them but we suffer
  • 00:53:29
    we can keep them and we will get well
  • 00:53:32
    and this is something each person does
  • 00:53:34
    for himself he does not do it because
  • 00:53:37
    his neighbor has done it because the
  • 00:53:39
    community is doing it maybe he hopes it
  • 00:53:41
    will but even if the community is doing
  • 00:53:44
    it unless it is a personal dedication of
  • 00:53:47
    his own it will not bring an end to his
  • 00:53:50
    own misunderstandings and misuses of
  • 00:53:53
    power so we hope that everyone will
  • 00:53:57
    remember a little bit that this golden
  • 00:54:00
    wedding moment is also according to st.
  • 00:54:03
    Paul the garment of divine love it is
  • 00:54:07
    love rising triumphant it is the proof
  • 00:54:11
    that when we really sincerely love we
  • 00:54:15
    serve and when we really really love we
  • 00:54:19
    give and when I have emotions of false
  • 00:54:22
    we take so in this we have also the
  • 00:54:26
    inspiration but for most people love has
  • 00:54:29
    been paid a stranger we hardly even love
  • 00:54:33
    our own anymore if they interfere with
  • 00:54:35
    our ambitions he will desert those
  • 00:54:38
    nearest to us if they hamper our freedom
  • 00:54:41
    everything must be freedom but no human
  • 00:54:45
    being who is ignorant is free and no
  • 00:54:48
    human being who can be free
  • 00:54:54
    who holds immoral unethical or
  • 00:54:58
    materialistic institutions as important
  • 00:55:03
    we all have to recognize that freedom is
  • 00:55:07
    the privilege to be right and that this
  • 00:55:11
    privilege belongs to us all
  • 00:55:13
    and the reward of it is freedom from the
  • 00:55:16
    disasters of our mistakes and there is
  • 00:55:20
    no way we could ever win this battle
  • 00:55:22
    look at the sky look at the Stars we can
  • 00:55:27
    know a long time before we can rule them
  • 00:55:30
    or go out and even explore them or take
  • 00:55:33
    a chance to visit one of them without
  • 00:55:35
    embarrassing imperiling our own lives we
  • 00:55:39
    cannot change the infinite but we don't
  • 00:55:42
    need to because the infinite is right
  • 00:55:46
    and we have no right miss greater and
  • 00:55:50
    the infinite is infinite love infinitely
  • 00:55:54
    manifested throughout infinite time an
  • 00:55:57
    infinite space and in this divine love
  • 00:56:00
    we live and as we live it gradually it
  • 00:56:04
    moves into us and becomes this radiant
  • 00:56:07
    body of the soul and the soul is the
  • 00:56:10
    love in us becoming the love in humanity
  • 00:56:14
    for all that lives and when we have
  • 00:56:17
    developed this and become part of a
  • 00:56:20
    universe of love we will have no more
  • 00:56:22
    worry over the sins of the flesh they
  • 00:56:25
    will correct themselves beautifully the
  • 00:56:28
    little children will not be deserted
  • 00:56:30
    they will not come into the world sick
  • 00:56:33
    to death before they are hardly born
  • 00:56:35
    these things must change a genuine
  • 00:56:39
    regard coming from within ourselves will
  • 00:56:44
    not only help this but when we begin to
  • 00:56:46
    practice this the light of the soul
  • 00:56:48
    inside of us will grow brighter and
  • 00:56:51
    brighter and so soul power becomes
  • 00:56:54
    master over all the brute force of the
  • 00:56:56
    world as it was mentioned Mohandas
  • 00:56:59
    Gandhi so that all things are safe only
  • 00:57:03
    when love makes the rules and these
  • 00:57:06
    rules made by love found in all the
  • 00:57:10
    great religions of the world and also
  • 00:57:12
    are inevitable and eternal in the human
  • 00:57:15
    heart thank you
  • 00:57:19
    [Applause]
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