of sin; when anxiety and doubt, and grief and sorrow, are ended; when lust and enmity, and anger and envy, no more possess the thoughts; when there remains in the mind no vestige of blame towards others for one’s own condition, and when all conditions are seen to be good because the result of causes, so that no event can afflict the mind, then Transcendence is attained; then the limited human personality is outgrown, and the divine life is known; evil is transcended, and Good is all-in-all.
The divine consciousness is not an intensification of the human, it is a new form of consciousness. It springs from the old, but it is not a continuance of it. Born of the lower life of sin and sorrow, after a period of painful travail, it yet transcends that life, and has no part in it, as the perfect flower transcends the seed from which it sprang.
As passion is the keynote of the self-life, so serenity is the keynote of the transcen-
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