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Speaker 1: Beautitude. When divine good is practiced, life is bliss. Bliss

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is the normal condition of the good man. Those outer assaults, harassments,

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and persecutions which bring about such suffering to others only

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serve to heighten his happiness, for they cause the deep

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fountain of good within him to well up to greater abundance.

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To have transcended virtue is to enjoy transcendent happiness. The

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beautific blessedness which Jesus holds out is promised to those

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having the heavenly virtues, to the merciful, the pure in heart,

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the peacemakers, and so on. The higher virtue does not

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merely and only lead to happiness. It is happiness. It

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is impossible for a man of transcendent virtue to be unhappy.

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The cause of unhappiness must be sought and found in

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the self loving elements, and not in the self sacrificing qualities.

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A man may have virtue and be unhappy, but not

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so if he has divine virtue. Human virtue is mingled

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with self and therefore with sorrow. But from divine virtue

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every taint of self has been purged away, and with

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it every vestige of misery. One comparison will suffice to

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illustrate this. A man may have the courage of a

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lion in attack and self defense, such courage being a

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human virtue, but he will not thereby be rendered supremely happy. However,

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he whose courage is that of the divine kind, which

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enables him to transcend both attack and defense, and to

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remain mild, serene, and lovable under attack, such a man

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will thereby be rendered supremely happy. Moreover, his assailant will

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be rendered more happy, in that a more powerful good

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will overcome and cast out the fierce and unhappy evil

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the other. The acquisition of human virtue is a great

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step towards truth, but the divine way transcends it. Truth

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lies upward and beyond. Doing good in order to gain

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a personal heaven or personal immortality is human virtue, but

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it is not unmixed with self and not emancipated from sorrow.

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In the transcendent virtues, all is good, and good is all,

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and there is no personal or ulterior aim. Human virtue

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is imperfect. It is mixed with the baser selfish elements,

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and needs to be transmuted. Divine virtue is unblemished and

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pure it is complete and perfect in itself. And what

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are the transcendent virtues that embody all happiness and joy.

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They are impartiality, the seeing so deeply into the human

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heart and into human actions that it becomes impossible to

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take sides with one man or one party against the other,

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and therefore the power to be perfectly just. Unlimited kindness

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towards all men, women, and all creatures, whether enemies or friends.

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Perfect patience at all times, in all circumstances and under

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the severest trials. Profound humility, the total surrender of self,

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the judging of one's own actions as though they were

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the actions of another. Stainless purity of mind and deed,

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freedom from all evil thoughts and impure imaginings, unbroken calmness

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of mind, even in the midst of outward strife or

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surrounded by the turmoil of many hardships and difficulties. Abiding

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goodness of heart, impervious to evil, returning good for evil. Compassion,

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deep pity for all creatures and beings in their sufferings,

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shielding the weak and helpless, and protecting out of pity

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even one's enemies from injury and slander. Abounding love, towards

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all living things, rejoicing with the happy and successful, and

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sympathizing with the sorrowing and defeated. Perfect peace toward all things,

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being at peace with all the world, a profound reconciliation

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to the divine order of the universe. Such are the

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virtues that transcend both vice and virtue. They include all

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that virtue and bodies, while going beyond it into divine truth.

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They are the fruits of innumerable efforts to achieve the

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glorious gifts of Him that overcomes. They constitute the ten

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jeweled crown prepared for the calm brow of him who

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has conquered himself. With these majestic virtues. Is the mind

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of the Sage. Adorned by them, he is eternally shielded

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from sin and sorrow, from harm and hurt, from trouble

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and turmoil. In them, he abides in happiness, a blessedness,

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a bliss so pure and tranquil, so deep and high,

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so far transcending all the fleeting excitements of self as

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to be unknown and incomprehensible to the self seeking consciousness.

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The Sage has conquered passion and has come to lasting peace,

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as the mighty mountain remains unmoved by the turbulent ocean

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that beats at its base. So the mind of the sage,

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towering in lofty virtue, remains unshaken by the tempests of

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passion which beat unceasingly upon the shores of life good

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and wise. He is ever more happy and serene, transcendingly virtuous.

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He lives in beautific bliss.