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PERFECT LOVE
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ing shall no more trouble him. If a man would know Love and partake of its undying bliss, he must practise it in his heart; he must become Love.

He who always acts from the spirit of Love is never deserted, is never left in a dilemma or difficulty, for Love—impersonal Love—is both Knowledge and Power. He who has learned how to Love has learned how to master every difficulty, how to transmute. every failure into success, how to clothe every event and condition in garments of blessedness and beauty.

The way to Love is by self-mastery, and, travelling that way, a man builds himself up in Knowledge as he proceeds. Arriving at Love, he enters into full possession of body and mind, by right of the divine Power he has earned.

“Perfect Love casteth out fear.” To know Love is to know that there is no harmful power in the whole universe. Even sin itself, which the worldly and unbelieving imagine to be so unconquerable, is known as a weak and perishable