To dwell in love always and towards all
the infallible Voice, you will pass on from
is to live the true life, is to have Life itself.
victory to victory, and will rise step by step
Knowing this, the good man gives up
to higher resting-places, and your ever-
himself unreservedly to the Spirit of Love,
broadening outlook will gradually reveal
and dwells in Love towards all, contending
to you the essential beauty and purpose
with none, condemning none, but loving
of life. Self-purified, health will be yours;
all.
self-governed, power will be yours, and all
that you do will prosper.
The Christ Spirit of Love puts an
end, not only to all sin, but to all division
And I may stand where health, success,
and contention.
and power
Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour,
Fifth Evening
I cling to love and patience; and abide
With stainlessness; and never step aside
When sin and self are abandoned, the heart
From high integrity; so shall I see
is restored to its imperishable Joy.
At last the land of immortality.
Joy comes and fills the self-emptied
heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign
Fourth Morning
is with the pure.
When the tongue is well controlled and
Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the
wisely subdued; when selfish impulses and
quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.
unworthy thoughts no longer rush to the
tongue demanding utterance; when the
Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is
speech has become harmless, pure,
wedded to Love.
gracious, gentle, and purposeful, and no
word is uttered but in sincerity and
Sixth Morning
truth-then are the five steps in virtuous
In the pure heart there is no room left
speech accomplished, then is the second
where personal judgments and hatreds can
great lesson in Truth learned and mastered.
find lodgment, for it is filled to overflowing
Make pure thy heart, and thou wilt make
with tenderness and love; it sees no evil,
thy life
and only as men succeed in seeing no evil
Rich, sweet and beautiful.
in others will they become free from sin,
and sorrow, and suffering.
Fourth Evening
If men only understood
Having clothed himself with humility,
That the heart that sins must sorrow,
That the hateful mind tomorrow
or right-doing, is entirely a matter of
Reaps its barren harvest, weeping,
individual conduct, and not a mystical
Starving, resting not, nor sleeping;
something apart from a man?s thoughts
Tenderness would fill their being,
and deeds.
They would see with Pity?s seeing
Calmness and patience can become
If they only understood.
habitual by first grasping, through effort,
a calm and patient thought, and then
Sixth Evening
continuously thinking it, and living in it,
To stand face to face with truth; to arrive,
until ?use becomes second nature,? and
after innumerable wanderings and pains, at
anger and impatience pass away for ever.
