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of the organism sufficiently to accelerate the approach of old age.
Such is the nature of the poison of hatred, which is the cause of all kinds of troubles. The emotion of love, on the contrary, ensures the free functioning of the lotus of the heart, whose rhythmic pulsation sends the fresh life-blood coursing through the arteries and veins, sweeping and carrying away all obstructions and accumulations of effete matter so highly dangerous on account of its suitability for becoming a breeding ground for disease-bearing germs. When the will iş fully developed by the practising of universal love, its powerful rhythm suffices to scare away death itself in the manner already explained. Thus, he who would aspire to attain inmortality must proceed by practising universal love.
We thus see that death is not a thing which must come to every one ; on the contrary, it comes only to those who live in ignorance of their true self which is perfectly godly and omnipotent, and at the assertion of which death itself flies away like Iblis at the ejaculation of
lahaul.' The efficacy of this or any other formula, it will be observed, lies not in words, but in the power which faith in its efficiency invokes on the occasion, for that power is Will itself, and it is irresistible by men, brutes and demons alike. Ignorant humanity is, however, debarred from the conscious exercise of this power, since man seldom distinguishes between the acts of wishing and willing, which are totally different and antagonistic, the former signifying mere passive day-dreaming, but the latter nothing if not the iron-will to succeed. The
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