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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
take away from them, leaving so much less for future use; and so, when it is a question of sharing the physical things, men calculate and say: 'I have only enough for myself, for my wife, for my child. How can I give any away?' All that is matter is consumed in the using; but that is not true of the higher things, the things of the intelligence, of the heart, and of the spirit. If I know something, I do not lose it when I teach it. Nay! it becomes more truly mine, because I have shared it with one more ignorant than myself ; so that you have two people enriched by knowledge, by the sharing of a store that increases, instead of diminishing, as it is shared. And so with all taat is worth having. You need not fear to lessen your own possessions by throwing them broadcast to your hungry fellowmen. Give your knowledge, your strength, your love ; empty yourself utterly, and when for a moment you think you are enipty, then from the inexhaustible fount of love, and beauty, and power more flows down to fill the empty vessel, making it fuller, and not emptier than it was before" ("When A Man Dies Shall He Live Again', page 17).
The lives of all great men teach us the same principle. Of Jesus it is said that he was constantly radiating virtue to heal the sick, to restore the mai med and to revive the dead, and yet his powers were never exhausted. He even taught his disciples :
"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils; freely ye have received, freely give."-(Matthew, X. 8).
It is the one function of will to radiate peace, power and harmony all round. Saints and sages never check, but always increase its radiations, and, thus, acquire inexhaustible powers themselves. The selfish, worldly man, not knowing the peculiar virtues of the Essence of Life. grudges its outgoing radiations, and regards the operatícn in the light of a loss.
The solar plexus in the body is the centre of Life which unceasingly radiates' virtue' all round. Health, bodily and mental, life and joy are the result of this
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