Man
cannot immortalize the flesh, but, by overcoming the flesh, by
relinquishing all its inclinations, he can enter the region of immortality.
"God alone hath immortality," and only by realizing the God state of
consciousness does man enter into immortality.
All nature in its myriad forms of life is changeable, impermanent,
unenduring. Only the informing Principle of nature endures. Nature is many,
and is marked by separation. The informing Principle is One, and is marked
by unity. By overcoming the senses and the selfishness within, which is the
overcoming of nature, man emerges from the chrysalis of the personal and
illusory, and wings himself into the glorious light of the impersonal, the
region of universal Truth, out of which all perishable forms come.
Let men, therefore, practice self-denial; let them conquer their animal
inclinations; let them refuse to be enslaved by luxury and pleasure; let
them practice virtue, and grow daily into high and ever higher virtue,
until at last they grow into the Divine, and enter into both the practice
and the comprehension of humility, meekness, forgiveness, compassion, and
love, which practice and comprehension constitute Divinity.
"Good-will gives insight," and only he who has so conquered his personality
that he has but one attitude of mind, that of good-will, toward all
creatures, is possessed of divine insight, and is capable of distinguishing
the true from the false.
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