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our own, is great for this reason. If you were asked to separato the gold from the dross in a lum) of ore, you would simply daub the thing yellow and then hypnotizo yourself to regard it as gold; but we should not be content till we brought out the precious metal by separating every particle of impurity from it.
14. Contemplation as I prac. tiso it gives me pleasure. How, then, can you object to it?
14. Only artificial happiness can result from artificial means ; your pleasure is manufactured in the Land of Dreams and can never be real. Keal happiness is the very nature of the soul, and cannot possibly be had by a contemplation of natural or artificial dreams. The sensualist's pleasure has been condemned by all. Your happiness from your own creations can only be due to your perception or enjoyment thereof, and, therefore, must be sensual in nature. It makes no difference that your creations' are mental; for their enjoyment is no less sensual for that reason.
15. In deep-sleep we "dive, 15. Your language is meaningas it were, into the fountain less to 118. Do your words ro which is the source of our being present actual things and and energy, and enjoy the bliss processes in nature or are you of the everlasting glory in the only using a metaphor ? What lap of our father."
is the significance of the word 'dive,' which you qualify by the phrase 'as it were'? What, again, is the idea underlying the expression the source of our being and energy'? Aliving being is a jive ensouled in a body; but surely you do not mean that the atoms of matter composing the body fall apart in deep-sleep, and fly back to their places at the first dawn of returning consciousness! Perhaps your idea only is that the
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