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past, else could he not have wrought it now: he will patiently endure the penalty he purchased by his thought, and will so think today that his morrows shall be free from shame. Into what was darkness has come a ray of light, and the light is singing to him:
Ho! ye who suffer! know
Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels. The law that seemed to be fetters has become wings, and by it he can rise to regions of which without it he could only dream.
Yes
Building the Future
The crowds of souls drift onwards along the sluggish current of time. As the earth rolls, it carries them with it; as globe succeeds globe, they too pass on. But the wisdom religion is proclaimed anew to the world that all who choose may cease to drift, and may learn to outstrip the slow evolution of the worlds.
The student, when he grasps something of the meaning of the law, of its absolute certainty, of its unerring exactitude, begins to take himself in hand and actively to superintend his own evolution. He scrutinizes his own character, and then proceeds to manipulate it, deliberately practising mental and moral qualities,
