ng passed through death's dark crucible,
are haunted by damning fears of bad results possible from too much
freedom. The trail of the serpent is felt by them still.

GENIUS.

Genius means simply a high and true sympathy with inanimate and human
nature, and the power to voice their various moods and tenses.

Paradoxes seem to run riot in all occult things. Extremes in all
departments are rare. There are a far greater number of indifferently
good and indifferently bad people than of the superlatively good or
bad. So Nature everywhere keeps the equilibrium, and the eternal
processes of evolution go on, and ever onward toward perfection.

All the pains of this human life come in consequence of the resistance
of the souls of men to the law of progress which is always, and
everywhere, laying hold of them to force them from the sod up to God.
They squirm, and wriggle, and howl, and make no end of fuss, because
the Lord calls upon them to awake from their animalism, and sloth, and
arise, and seek the kingdom.

"He knoweth our frame," no more comforting, or encouraging words than
these have ever been spoken. "He," the great soul-Father, knoweth us
as we are. He knows how to inspire with hope, and courage the most
sorrowing and lost. The felon in his cell, the outcast from all that
men call good, are, with those of superior spiritual attainments,
subjects of this beneficence. Nearly every soul feels, at some period
of existence, its subtle relationship to a something, a power outside
of its material life and surroundings. The experiences of this life
are calculated to strengthen and perfect that relationship. Jesus
Christ is credited with saying, "Be ye lifted up even as I am lifted
up." That is, in spirit, to a perception of the relationship of your
souls to the great "Over soul."

Be ye, then, patient with yourselves, and with each other. Be sure
that you are being taught, "lifted up" to a perception and knowledge of
these things, as fast as it is lawful for you to be.

In God's good time ye shall blossom and bear a goodly fruitage.

"THOUGHTS ARE THINGS."

But thoughts, as potent entities, must pass from the formative,
nebulous condition into a crystallized state by, and through some form
of externalization of language, spoken or written.

Thoughts must be created--born--through the absolute form-creation of
the human brain, in order to secure to them potentiality, and
immortality.

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