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Good results. A considerable portion of
the happenings of life comes to us without

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any direct choosing on our part,
and such happenings are generally regarded as having

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no relation to our will or character, but as appearing fortuitously, as occurring

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without a cause. Thus one is
spoken of as being lucky and another unlucky,

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the inference being that each has received
something which he never earned, never

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caused. Deeper thought and a clearer
insight into life convinces us, however,

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that nothing appears without a cause,
that cause and effect are always related in

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perfect adjustment and harmony. That being
so, every happening directly affecting us is

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intimately related to our own will and
character, is indeed an effect justly related

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to a cause, having its seat
in our consciousness. In a word,

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involuntary houseapenings of life are the results
of our own thoughts and deeds. This,

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I admit is not apparent on the
surface. But what fundamental law,

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even in the physical universe, is
so apparent? If thought, investigation,

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and experiment are necessary to the discovery
of the principles which relate one material atom

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to another, even so are they
imperative to the perception and understanding of the

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mode of action which relate one mental
condition to another, and such modes such

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laws are known by the right doer, by him who has acquired an understanding

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mind. By the practice of true
actions, we reap as we sow.

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Those things which come to us,
though not by our own choosing, are

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by our own causing. The drunker
did not choose the delirium tremens or insanity

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which overtook him, but he caused
it by his own deeds. In this

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case the law is plain to all
minds. But where it is not so

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plain, it is nonetheless true.
Within ourselves is the deep seated cause of

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all our sufferings, the spring of
all our joys. Alter the inner world

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of thoughts, and the other world
of events will cease to bring you sorrow.

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Make the heart pure, and to
you all things will be pure.

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All occurrence is happy and in true
order. Within yourselves, deliverance must be

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sought. Each man his prison makes
each hath such lordship as the loftiest one's

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nay, For with powers above around
below, as with all flesh and whatsoever

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lives act, maketh joy or woe. Our life is good or bad,

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enslaved or free, according to its
causation in our thoughts. For out of

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these thoughts spring all our deeds,
and from these deeds come equitable results.

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We cannot seize good result violently like
a thief, and claim and enjoy them,

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but we can bring them to pass
by setting in motion the cause within

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ourselves. Men strive for money,
sigh for happiness, and would gladly possess

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wisdom, yet fail to secure these
things while they see others to whom these

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blessings appear to come unbidden. The
reason is that they have generated causes which

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prevent the fulfillment of their wishes and
efforts. Each life is a perfectly woven

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network of causes and effects of efforts
or lack of efforts and results, and

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good results can only be reached by
initiating good efforts good causes. The doer

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of true actions, who pursue sound
methods grounded on right principles, will not

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need to strive and struggle for good
results. They will be there as the

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effects of his righteous rule of life. He will reap the fruit of his

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own actions, and the reaping will
be in gladness and peace. This truth

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of sowing and reaping in the moral
sphere is a simple one, yet men

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are slow to understand and accept it. We have been told by a wise

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one that the children of darkness are
wiser in their day than the children of

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light. And who would expect,
in the material world to reap and eat

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where he had not sown and planted, Or who would expect to reap wheat

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in the field where he had sown
tears, and would fall to weeping and

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complaining if he did not. Yet, this is just what men do in

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the spiritual field of mind and deed. They do evil and expect to get

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from it good. And when the
bitter harvesting comes in all its ripe and

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fullness, they fall into despair and
bemoan the hardness and injustice of their lot,

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usually attributing it to the evil deeds
of others, refusing even to admit

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the possibility of its cause being hidden
in themselves, in their own thoughts and

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deeds. The children of light,
those who are searching for the fundamental principles

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of right living with a view to
making themselves into wise and happy beings,

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must train themselves to observe this law
of cause and effect in thought, word,

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and deed, as implicitly and obediently. As the gardener obeys the law

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of sowing and reaping, he does
not even question the law. He recognizes

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and obeys it. When the wisdom
which he instinctively practices in his garden is

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practiced by men in the garden of
their minds. When the law of the

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sowing of deeds is so fully recognized
that it can no longer be doubted or

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questioned, then it will be just
as faithfully followed by the sowing of those

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actions which will bring about a reaping
of happiness and well being for all.

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As the children of matter obey the
laws of matter, so let the children

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of spirit obey the laws of spirit. For the law of matter and the

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law of spirit are one, but
they are two aspects of one thing,

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the outworking of one principle in opposite
directions. If we observe right principles or

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causes, wrong effects cannot possibly accrue. If we pursue sound methods, no

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shoddy thread can find its way into
our web of life, no rotten brick

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enter into the building of our character
to render it insecure. And if we

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do true actions, what but good
results can come to pass? For to

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say that good causes can produce bad
effects. Is to say that nettles can

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be reaped from a sowing of corn. He who orders his life along the

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moral lines thus briefly enunciated, will
attain to such a state of insight and

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equilibrium as to render him permanently happy
and perennially glad. All his efforts will

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be seasonally planted, all the issues
of his life will be good. And

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though he may not become a millionaire, as indeed he will have no desire

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to become such, he will acquire
the gift of peace, and true success

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will wait upon him as its commanding
master.