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AT REST IN THE KINGDOM AND
ALL THINGS ADDED

My life is glad—
Nowise forgetting yet those other lives
Painful and poor, wicked and miserable,
Whereon the gods grant pity!—Sir Edwin Arnold.

The whole journey from the Kingdom of Strife to the Kingdom of Love resolves itself into a process that may be summed up in the following words: The regulation and purification of conduct. Such a process must, if assiduously pursued, necessarily lead to perfection. It will also be seen that as the man obtains mastery over certain forces within himself, he arrives at a knowledge of all the laws operating in the realm of those forces, and by watching the ceaseless working of cause and effect within himself until he understands them, he there-upon understands them in their universal adjustments in the body of humanity. Moreover, seeing that all laws governing human