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We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave, We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave; Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name Our individual essence still is the same. And when we have reached to the highest of all, The gradations of growth our minds shall recall So that link by link we may join them together And trace step by step the way we reached thither. Thus in time we shall know, if only we do What lifts, ennobles, is right and true. With kindness to all; with malice to none, That in and through us God's will may be done. [042]
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: Ignorance and but one salvation: Applied Knowledge. Even the wisest among us know but little of what may be learned, however, and no one has attained to perfection, or can attain in one single short life, but we note that everywhere in nature slow persistent unfoldment makes for higher and higher development of every thing and we call this process evolution. One of the chief characteristics of evolution lies in the fact that it manifests in alternating periods of activity and rest. The busy summer, when all things upon earth are exerting themselves to bring forth, is followed by the rest and inactivity of winter. The busy day alternates with the quiet of night. The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in cycles, the life that expresses itself here upon earth for a few years is not to be thought of as ended when death has been reached, but as surely as the sun rises in the morning after having set at night, will the life that was ended by the death of one body be taken up again in a new vehicle and in a different environment.
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We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave, We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave; Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name Our individual essence still is the same. And when we have reached to the highest of all, The gradations of growth our minds shall recall So that link by link we may join them together And trace step by step the way we reached thither. Thus in time we shall know, if only we do What lifts, ennobles, is right and true. With kindness to all; with malice to none, That in and through us God's will may be done. [042]
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: Ignorance and but one salvation: Applied Knowledge. Even the wisest among us know but little of what may be learned, however, and no one has attained to perfection, or can attain in one single short life, but we note that everywhere in nature slow persistent unfoldment makes for higher and higher development of every thing and we call this process evolution. One of the chief characteristics of evolution lies in the fact that it manifests in alternating periods of activity and rest. The busy summer, when all things upon earth are exerting themselves to bring forth, is followed by the rest and inactivity of winter. The busy day alternates with the quiet of night. The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in cycles, the life that expresses itself here upon earth for a few years is not to be thought of as ended when death has been reached, but as surely as the sun rises in the morning after having set at night, will the life that was ended by the death of one body be taken up again in a new vehicle and in a different environment.
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