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Speaker 1: Man the master. By the mastery of self, a distinct

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form of consciousness is evolved, which some would call divine.

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It is distinguished from that ordinary human consciousness, which craves

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personal advantages and gratifications on the one hand, and is

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involved in remorse and soil on the other. The divine

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consciousness concerns itself with humanity and the universe, with eternal verities,

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with righteousness, wisdom, and truth, and not with pleasures, protection

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and preservation of the personality. Not that personal pleasure is destroyed,

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but that it is no longer craved in sought. It

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no longer takes a foremost place. It is purified, and

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it is received as the effect of right thought and action,

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and is no longer an end in itself. In the

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divine consciousness is neither sin nor sorrow. Even the sense

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of sin has passed away, and the true order and

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purpose of life being revealed, no cause is found for lamentation.

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Jesus called the state of consciousness quote the Kingdom of

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Heaven unquote. Buddha named it quote nirvana unquote, and loud

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Serve's term for it was quote Tao unquote. Emerson refers

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to it as quote the over soul unquote, and doctor

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Bucky calls it quote cosmic consciousness unquote in his valuable

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work bearing that title. The ordinary human consciousness is self consciousness. Self,

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the personality is placed before everything else. There are ceaseless

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anxieties and fears concerning the self. Its possible loss is

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thought to be the most grievous calamity, and its eternal

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preservation the most important thing in the universe. In divine consciousness,

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all this has passed away. Self has disappeared. Therefore they

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can be no more fears and anxieties concerning the self.

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And things are considered and known as they are, and

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not as they afford pleasure or cause pain to self,

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not as self wishes them to be for its own

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temporal or eternal happiness. The self conscious man is subject

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to desire. The divinely conscious man is master of desire.

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The former considers what is pleasant or unpleasant. The latter

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acts from the righteous law without reference to pleasure or pain.

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The race is passing through self consciousness to divine consciousness,

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through the slavery of self with its sense of sin

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and shame, to the freedom of truth, with its sense

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of purity and power. The great Teachers and saviors of

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the race have already attained in former existences. They have

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already passed through all forms of self consciousness, and now,

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having subjugated self, have become divinely conscious. They have reached

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the summit of evolution on this earth, and have no

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further need to be born in the self conscious form.

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They are masters of life. Having conquered self, they have

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acquired the supreme knowledge. Some of them are worshiped as

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God because they manifest a wisdom and consciousness which is

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quite distinct from the normal or self consciousness of humanity,

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and which is therefore regarded with and shrouded by incomprehensible mystery.

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Yet in this divine consciousness there is no mystery, but,

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on the contrary, a transparent simplicity, which becomes apparent when

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the confusions of self are dispersed, the abiding gentleness, the

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sublime wisdom, the perfect calm of the great teachers, qualities

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which appear supernatural when viewed from the self consciousness state,

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are seen to be simple and natural when the first

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glimmering of divine consciousness dawns in the mind. And such

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divine consciousness does not appear until a high degree of

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morality is attained by the self conscious man. Man becomes

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divinely conscious, divinely wise, divinely gentle, and strong in the

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measure that he subdues and dominates within those passions by

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which humanity is subdued and dominated. Man becomes divinely conscious,

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divinely wise, divinely gentle, and strong in the measure that

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he subdues and dominates within those passions by which he

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may subdued and dominated. The divine master is one who

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has attained mastery of his self. The abiding nobility, beneficent characteristics,

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and unobtrusive virtue which mark off the spiritually enlightened man

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from others are the fruits of self conquest, the logical

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outcome of a long struggle to master and comprehend those

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mental forces which self conscious man blindly obeys without understanding.

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Self conscious man is a slave to self obeying self

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centered inclinations. He is in submission to his passions and

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to the sorrows and pains which allegiance to those passions

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inflict upon him. He is conscious of sin and sorrow,

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but sees no way out of these conditions, and so

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he invents theologies which he substitutes for effort, and which,

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while affording him fitful comfort through uncertain hope, leave him

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the easy victim of sin and the willing prey of sorrow.

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Divinely conscious man is the master of self. He obeys

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truth and not self. He curbs and directs his inclinations,

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and is conscious of a growing of a sin and sorrow.

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He sees that there is a way out of these

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conditions by the path of self mastery. He needs no

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theologies to aid him, but exerts himself in right doing,

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and is gladdened by a sense of victory and increasing

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purity and power. When his mastery is complete, he has

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no inclinations but those which accord with truth. He has

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then become the conqueror of sin, and is no longer

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subject to sorrow. Enlightened, wise, and even more peaceful and

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happy is he who has subjected, overcome, and cast out

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the turbulent self that reigned within. The Tempests of sorrow

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do not chill him. The cares and troubles which beset

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man pass him by, and no evil thing overtakes him.

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Secure in divine virtue, no enemy can over throw him,

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no foe can do him harm. Kind and peaceful, no person,

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power nor place can rob him of repose. There is

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no enemy but self, no darkness but ignorance, no suffering

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but that which springs from the insubordinate elements of one's

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on nature. No man is truly wise who is involved

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in likes and dislikes, wishes and regrets, desires and disappointments,

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sins and sorrow. All these conditions belong to the self

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conscious states, and are indications of folly, weakness, and subjection.

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He is truly wise, who, in the midst of worldly

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duties is all, is calm, all is gentle, all is patient.

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He accepts things as they are, and does not wish

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nor grieve, desire nor regret. These things belong to the

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divinely conscious state, the dominion of truth, and are indications

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of enlightenment, strength, and mastery. He who does not desire riches,

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fame or pleasures, who enjoys what he has, he does

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not lament when it is taken from him, he is

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indeed wise. He who desires riches, fame and pleasure, who

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is discontented with what he has, yet laments when it

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is taken from him, he is indeed foolish. Man is

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fitted for conquest, but the conquest of territory will not avail.

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He must resort to the conquest of self. The conquest

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of territory renders a man at temporal ruler, but the

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conquest of self makes him an eternal conqueror. Man is

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destined for mastery, not the master of his fellow men

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by force, but the master of his own nature by

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self control. The mastery of his fellow men by force

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is the crown of egotism, but the mastery of self

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by self control is the crown of humility. He is man,

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the master who has shaken off the service of self

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for the service of truth, who has established himself in

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the eternal verities. He is crowned not only with perfect manhood,

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but with divine wisdom. He has overcome the disturbances of

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the mind and the shocks of life. He is superior

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to all circumstances. He is the calm spectator, but no

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longer the helpless tool of events, nor more sinning, weeping,

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repenting mortal. He is pure, rejoicing, upright, immortal. He perceives

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the course of things with a glad and peaceful heart,

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A divine conqueror, master of life and death,