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will of the Almighty as the means of getting into Heaven. Jesus preached Knowledge, Faith and Renunciation for bringing the Kingdom of Heaven into manifestation. Other saviours and sages have laid down, more or less, the same rules. In each and every instance stress is laid, directly or by necessary implication, on concentration, which religion does not hesitate to describe as thkey-note of success.
As already shown, the wretched condition of our race is due to our failure to realize the divinity of Self and to the belief in duality which implies the impossibility of the attainment of Godhood on the part of the soul. Hence all we have got to do is just simply to give up the existing notion of the helplessness of the soul, and to replace it with the belief in its Divinity. It follows from this that the object of concentration should be, firstly, the denial of duality, which means a denial of the imaginary unbridgeable gulf, set up by modern theology between God and man, that is, of the supposed, eternal, unqualified inferiorty of man and of his inability to attain to Godhood, and, secondly, the positive assertion of the Divinity of the Self. This should be the real aim and object of concentration. Whenever you find time for it-and the oftener you do it the betterjust settle down to concentrate your mind on these two points, and, if you have faith in the teaching, you will very soon begin to feel that you are on the right path. A few moments' concentration, with faith, is all that is required to show you that your labour has not been in vain. It is the best proof that you can ask for, or that can be furnished by any system. As you persist in con
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