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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
Do you now see the secret of your unhappiness? You have forgotten your real Self and are searching outside in the world for that which is within you. The source of eternal happiness is within you ; it is the desire to win the fairy of the stage which stands between you and the spring of happiness within. When you put yourself on a level with the John, Brown and others of your dream, you disconnect yourself with the Creative Power,' and must share the fate of those imaginary others of your own making. In this world also the Creative Will' is capable of achieving the most wonderful feats ; and that will is also yours! The moment you look upon the world as a stage, and on men and women as actors in disguise, you rise above it and occupy your proper place, or, in the words of Jesus, “ you ascend to wbere you were before.” It is the forgetfulness of your true nature which is causing you all the unhappiness, and misery, and sickness, and disease. When you know your real Self, you will not make yourself miserable in the pursuit of the pleasures of this world of shadows.
Such is the lesson to be learnt from the beautiful simile of a dream. The Bible also teaches that when you cease acting and become a spectator, then would the Christ (your Life) plead for you with the Heavenly Father within, saying : “ They are not of the World, even as I am not of the World. Sanctify them through truth : thy word is truth” (John, XVII. 16-17). Then it will be that if you ask yonder mountain to 'cast itself into the sea,' it will. When you can say with the Saviour, “In the world. ye shall have tribulation : but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John,
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