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Speaker 1: Regeneration. Submit to naught but nobleness. Rejoice like a strong

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athlete straining for the prize when thy full strength is tried.

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Be not the slave of lusts and cravings, and indulgences,

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of disappointments, miseries and griefs, fears, doubts and lamentations. But

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control thyself with calmness, master that in THEE which masters others,

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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

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into peace and wisdom crown THEE. So shalt thou action attain,

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and by attaining no Having considered and examined the nature

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of temptation in its five interdependent stages, let us now

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

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so that the reader, who has all already receives some

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measure of enlightenment, may be still further guided in his

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strenuous climbing towards the perfect life. The five stages in

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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

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a pure and true life is that of thoughtfulness. The

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thoughtless cannot enter the right way of life. Only the

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reflective mind can acquire wisdom. When a man, ceasing to

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go after enjoyment, brings himself to a standstill in order

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to examine his position and to reflect upon the condition

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of the world and the meaning of life, then he

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has entered upon the first stage of regeneration. When a

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man begins to think seriously and with a deep and

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noble purpose in view, stepped out of the broad way

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where the thoughtless and the frivolous clutch at the bubbles

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

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thoughtful and the wise comprehend eternal verities. Such a man's

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liberation from sin and suffering is already assured, for though

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he is as yet surrounded by much uncertainty, he is

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already releasing a foretaste of the peace which awaits him.

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His passions, though still strong, are quieter, his mind is

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calmer and clearer, his intercourse with others is purer and graver,

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And in his moments of deepest thought, he sees as

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in a vision, the strength and calmness and wisdom which

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he knows will one day be his well earned possessions.

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Thus he passes on to the second stage, Reflecting day

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by day with ever increasing earnestness upon life in all

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its phases. He comes to perceive the passions and desires

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in which men are involved, and realizes the sorrows which

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are connected with their strangely ephemeral existence. He sees the

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burning fevers of lusts and ambitions and cravings for pleasure,

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and the chilling egg us of anxieties and fears, and

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the uncertainty of slowly approaching death, and he aspires to

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know the meaning of it all. Is eager to find

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the source and cause of that which seems so sorrowful

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and inexplicable. Recognizing himself as a unit in humanity, as

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one involved in like passions and sorrows with all other men,

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he vaguely understands that somehow the secret of all life

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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

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theories which are based on observation only, and which still

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leave him subject to passions and sorrows and the prey

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of anxieties and fears, he turns his thoughts inwardly upon

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his own mind, thinking perchance that the wish for revelation

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of wisdom and peace awaits him there. Thus he becomes introspective,

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and so he passes on to the third stage. When

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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,

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by the aid of which the innermost recesses of the

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man's nature, and therefore of all humanity, begin to unveil

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themselves and yield up their secrets to the penetrating insight

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

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of thought, and tracing out the warp and wolf of

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the web of life as it is woven in the

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

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begins for the first time to somewhat clearly comprehend the

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inner causes of human deeds and the meaning and purpose

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of existence. As this purpose of thought is preceded with

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the desires and passions are purified away from the mind,

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the calmness necessary to a right perception of truth is acquired,

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and gradually the fixed principles of things are presented to

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the comprehension, and the eternal laws of life are coherently

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grasped by the understanding, and now quietly and almost as

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imperceptibly as the soft light of dawn, stealing upon the

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sleeping world. Controlled passes into the fourth stage and opens

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his long sleeping eyes upon the rising light of truth.

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He becomes habitually meditative, and in meditation he finds the

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master key, which unlocks the door of knowledge. It is

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at this advanced stage in the process of regeneration that

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the sinner becomes the saint and the pupil is transformed

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into the master. For here the process of transmutation, too

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slow and painful, is greatly accelerated, so that the spiritual

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forces formerly spent in pleasures, gratifications, passions, and afflictions are

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

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reproductive thought. And so wisdom is born in the mind

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and bliss and peace as skill and power are acquired

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in meditation, the fifth and last stage is reached, where

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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

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laws and principles of things stand revealed. Here the man

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is altogether regenerated, is purified and perfected. All human passions

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

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seen as they are. All the intricacies of life stand

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out naked in the light of truth. And there is

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no more doubt and perplexity, no more sin and anguish.

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For he whose pure and enlightened eyes perceive the hidden

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causes and effects which operate infallibly in human life, He

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who knows how the bitter fruits of passion ripen, and

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where the dark waters of sorrow spring. He it is

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who no more sins and no more sorrows. Lo he

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has come to peace. The five stages so passed through

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may be thus presented. One reflection, deep and earnest thought

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on the nature and meaning of life. Two introspection looking

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inwardly for the causes and effects which operate in life.

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Three self analysis, searching the springs of thought and purifying

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the motives in order to find the truth of life.

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Four meditation, pure and discriminative thought on the facts and

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principles of life. Five pure perception insight direct knowledge of

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the laws of life. The whole process of regeneration may

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be likened to the growth of a plant. At first

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the small seed of reflection is cast into the dark

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soil of ignorance. Then the little rootlets come forth and

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grope about for light and sustenance introspection, Next the strenuous

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self examination as the plant, reaching upwards toward the light.

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And then the development of the bud and opening flower

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of meditation, ending at last in that pure and wise insight,

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which is the spiritual glory of the Sage, the perfect

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flower of enlightenment. Thus beginning in sin and suffering, and

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

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

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reaches at last the undented habitation of a spotless life,

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and so passes beyond the dark halls of suffering, knowing

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the perfect law