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RECONCILIATION.
1049 free radiation of Life. This silent, steady radiation, in a spirit of Goodwill and Love, transmutes enemies into friends, evil into good, disease and sickness into health, and poverty into wealth. The man who is selfish, who loves himself more than his neighbour, who is cruel, vicious or intemperate, interferes with the free activity of his solar plexus, which is known in Sanskrit as ‘Swadishtan' (the abode of the Self). When such evil thoughts are persisted in for a number of years, the mind and body lose their virility in consequence of the poison of evil, and a process similar to that of the winding up of a going concern takes place. Life, instead of expressing itself, begins to shut up shop, till gradually the premises are vacated and shutters put up. The following story well explains this principle. There was a money-lender's firm which did excellent business, and was flourishing most promisingly. The director of the firm one day thought that it would be a grand idea if he could so arrange matters that inoney always came in but none went out, and so he promptly issued orders to his chief manager to stop the going out of money. The manager was stunned by the orders of the director, and sent him several messages informing him that no money could possibly come in unless the capital of the firm was allowed to circulate, but they remained unheeded by the director. Faithful to his position, the manager had to yield at last, and so he put all the money of the firm in an iron safe and locked it up. The result was that the income stopped, but not the expenses ; and as the capital in the safe dwindled, servants and creditors of the firm begau to press for
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