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Regeneration. Submit to naught but nobleness. Rejoice like a strong athlete straining for

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the prize when thy full strength is
tried. Be not the slave of lusts

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and cravings, and indulgences, of
disappointments, miseries and griefs, fears,

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doubts and lamentations. But control thyself
with calmness, master that in THEE which

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masters others, and which heretofore has
mastered THEE. Let not thy passions rule,

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but rule thy passions. Subjugate thyself
till passion is transmuted into peace and

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wisdom crown THEE. So shalt thou
action attain, and by attaining no Having

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considered and examined the nature of temptation
in its five interdependent stages, let us

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now turn to the process of regeneration
and also consider its nature, so that

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the reader, who has all already
receives some measure of enlightenment, may be

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still further guided in his strenuous climbing
towards the perfect life. The five stages

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in regeneration already enumerated are one reflection, two introspection, three self analysis,

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four meditation, and five pure perception. The first stage in a pure and

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true life is that of thoughtfulness.
The thoughtless cannot enter the right way of

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life. Only the reflective mind can
acquire wisdom. When a man, ceasing

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to go after enjoyment, brings himself
to a standstill in order to examine his

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position and to reflect upon the condition
of the world and the meaning of life,

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then he has entered upon the first
stage of regeneration. When a man

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begins to think seriously and with a
deep and noble purpose in view, stepped

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out of the broad way where the
thoughtless and the frivolous clutch at the bubbles

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of pleasure, and has entered the
narrow way, where the thoughtful and the

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wise comprehend eternal verities. Such a
man's liberation from sin and suffering is already

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assured, for though he is as
yet surrounded by much uncertainty, he is

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already releasing a foretaste of the peace
which awaits him. His passions, though

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still strong, are quieter, his
mind is calmer and clearer, his intercourse

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with others is purer and graver,
And in his moments of deepest thought,

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he sees as in a vision,
the strength and calmness and wisdom which he

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knows will one day be his well
earned possessions. Thus he passes on to

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the second stage, Reflecting day by
day with ever increasing earnestness upon life in

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all its phases. He comes to
perceive the passions and desires in which men

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are involved, and realizes the sorrows
which are connected with their strangely ephemeral existence.

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He sees the burning fevers of lusts
and ambitions and cravings for pleasure,

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and the chilling egg us of anxieties
and fears, and the uncertainty of slowly

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approaching death, and he aspires to
know the meaning of it all. Is

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eager to find the source and cause
of that which seems so sorrowful and inexplicable.

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Recognizing himself as a unit in humanity, as one involved in like passions

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and sorrows with all other men,
he vaguely understands that somehow the secret of

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all life is inevitably bound up with
the neophyte, the mind purified, calmed,

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and his own existence. And so
unsatisfied with the surface theories which are

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based on observation only, and which
still leave him subject to passions and sorrows

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and the prey of anxieties and fears, he turns his thoughts inwardly upon his

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own mind, thinking perchance that the
wish for revelation of wisdom and peace awaits

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him there. Thus he becomes introspective, and so he passes on to the

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third stage. When the introspective habit
is fully ripened and acquired, there is

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called upon in the mind a subtle
process of inductive thought, by the aid

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of which the innermost recesses of the
man's nature, and therefore of all humanity,

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begin to unveil themselves and yield up
their secrets to the penetrating insight of

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the patient's searcher, who, unraveling
now the tangled threads of thought, and

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tracing out the warp and wolf of
the web of life as it is woven

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in the mental processes, and by
the swift flying shuttle of thought, begins

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for the first time to somewhat clearly
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the meaning and purpose of existence.
As this purpose of thought is preceded with

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the desires and passions are purified away
from the mind, the calmness necessary to

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a right perception of truth is acquired, and gradually the fixed principles of things

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are presented to the comprehension, and
the eternal laws of life are coherently grasped

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by the understanding, and now quietly
and almost as imperceptibly as the soft light

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of dawn, stealing upon the sleeping
world. Controlled passes into the fourth stage

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and opens his long sleeping eyes upon
the rising light of truth. He becomes

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habitually meditative, and in meditation he
finds the master key, which unlocks the

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door of knowledge. It is at
this advanced stage in the process of regeneration

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that the sinner becomes the saint and
the pupil is transformed into the master.

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For here the process of transmutation,
too slow and painful, is greatly accelerated,

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so that the spiritual forces formerly spent
in pleasures, gratifications, passions,

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and afflictions are now conserved, controlled, and turned into channels of productive and

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reproductive thought. And so wisdom is
born in the mind and bliss and peace

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as skill and power are acquired in
meditation, the fifth and last stage is

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reached, where the perfect insight of
the seer in the sage is evolved,

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so that the facts of life are
grasp and the laws and principles of things

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stand revealed. Here the man is
altogether regenerated, is purified and perfected.

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All human passions are conquered, and
human sorrows are transcended. Here things are

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seen as they are. All the
intricacies of life stand out naked in the

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light of truth. And there is
no more doubt and perplexity, no more

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sin and anguish. For he whose
pure and enlightened eyes perceive the hidden causes

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and effects which operate infallibly in human
life, He who knows how the bitter

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fruits of passion ripen, and where
the dark waters of sorrow spring. He

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it is who no more sins and
no more sorrows. Lo he has come

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to peace. The five stages so
passed through may be thus presented. One

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reflection, deep and earnest thought on
the nature and meaning of life. Two

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introspection looking inwardly for the causes and
effects which operate in life. Three self

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analysis, searching the springs of thought
and purifying the motives in order to find

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the truth of life. Four meditation, pure and discriminative thought on the facts

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and principles of life. Five pure
perception insight direct knowledge of the laws of

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life. The whole process of regeneration
may be likened to the growth of a

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plant. At first the small seed
of reflection is cast into the dark soil

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of ignorance. Then the little rootlets
come forth and grope about for light and

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sustenance introspection, Next the strenuous self
examination as the plant, reaching upwards toward

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the light. And then the development
of the bud and opening flower of meditation,

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ending at last in that pure and
wise insight, which is the spiritual

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glory of the Sage, the perfect
flower of enlightenment. Thus beginning in sin

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and suffering, and passing through thoughtfulness, self searching, self purification, meditation

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and insight, the seeker, after
the pure life in the divine wisdom,

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reaches at last the undented habitation of
a spotless life, and so passes beyond

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the dark halls of suffering, knowing
the perfect law