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Dresser wrote prophetically: ;< The law of the

Christ is the law of organic perfection, the Christ
spirit made social is the supreme triumph of all
the powers of evolution."
Spiritual thought must descend as a balm to
cleanse and to heal the wounds of crime. Not
the common vulgar crimes of ignorance or of ungovernable
passion which education combats; but
the far more dangerous ones more heinous in
the sight of God, more fatal to the soul ! the
deliberate, cold-blooded crimes of Satanically immoral
intellects which have sacrificed all human
welfare and National prosperity to selfish personal
greed and ambition. All human moralities
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melt away before such aims. But they can neither
affect nor withstand the force of the stupendous
moral wave circling round our sphere.
It is man himself who must ameliorate the present
deplorable conditions ; he created them created
all wickedness, all crime and misery, through
wrong thinking prompting evil doing. There is
no wickedness in the lower kingdoms ; and through
the power of right-thinking man must lift the race
from its present state of wretchedness and suffering.
He must change conditions. Every human
being, no matter how isolated the life, can aid the
cause by right thinking. It is the quality of our
thinking that through the Tattvas we draw to
us makes us what we are, and upon which all
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our influence depends. Dedicate your daily life
to high ideals, and in this training of self-control
and self-knowledge your soul will increase in sensitive
intuition to all promptings from the creative
resources of the Spirit which are infinite.
Horatio Dresser, than whom none has aided
more in the cult of spiritual thought, says:
" Deep within every human soul there is a dormant
intuition which, if it be quickened, will guide
us as unerringly as the instinct of the dove, to our
home in God " (Power of Silence) . That " quickening
" can be obtained only when we listen
for our soul's commands. This is difficult in the
hurly-burly of life till we have made our minds
sensitive to the soul's lightest whisper by wooing it
in silent concentration.
Remember that we thus raise the Tattvas to a
subtle plane, which means increasing activity,
vastly increased velocity. This higher rate of vibrations
increases the power of the soul to manifest
its control over the mind, in fact, puts the two
en rapport as nothing else can. The strength
which the mind thus gains is shared by every nerve
and externalized in the increased vigor and vitality
of the body. Existence should be made a joy.
Only thus can any soul manifest its highest powers.
And to this end the daily life as far as it is under

personal control, should be ordered with harmony

and restraint. Moderation in eating is important
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and the purer the foods the substances furnished