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Speaker 1: Man's spiritual dominion. The kingdom over which man is destined

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to rule with undisputed sway is that of his own

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mind and life. But this kingdom, as already shown, is

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not separate from the universe, is not confined to itself alone.

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It is intimately related to entire humanity, to nature, to

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the current of events in which it is for the

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time being involved, and to the vast universe. Thus, the

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mastery of this kingdom embraces the mastery of the knowledge

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of life. It lifts a man into the supremacy of wisdom,

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bestowing upon him the gift of insight into human hearts,

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giving him the power to distinguish between good and evil,

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also to comprehend that which is above both good and evil,

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and to know the nature and consequences of deeds. At present,

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men are more or less under the sway of rebellious thoughts,

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and the conquest of these is the supreme conquest of life.

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The unwise think that everything can be mastered by oneself,

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and they seek for happiness for themselves and others by

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modifying external things. The transposing of outward effects cannot bring

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permanent happiness or bestow wisdom. The patching and coddling of

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a sin laden body cannot produce health and well being.

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The wise know that there is no real mastery until

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self is subdued, and that when one's self is conquered,

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the subjugation of externals is finally assured, and they find

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happiness forever springing up within them. In the calm strength

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of divine virtue. They put away sin, and purify and

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strengthen the body by rising superior to the sway of

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its passions. Man can reign over his own mind can

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be lurd over himself. Until he does so reign, his

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life is unsatisfactory and imperfect. His dominion is the empire

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of the mental forces of which his nature is composed.

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The body has no causative power. The ruling of the body,

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that is of appetite and passion, is the discipline of

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mental forces. The subduing, modifying, redirecting, and transmuting of the

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antagonizing spiritual elements within is the wonderful and mighty work

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which all men must sooner or later undertake. For a

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long time man regards himself as a slave of external forces.

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But there comes a day when his spiritual eyes open

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and he sees that he has been a slave this

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long time to none and nothing but his own, ungoverned,

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unpurified self. In that day he rises up, and as

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ascending his spiritual throne, he no longer obeys his desires, appetites,

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and passions as their slave, but henceforward rules them as

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his subjects. The mental kingdom through which he has been

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wont to wander as a pulling beggar and a whip surf,

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he now discovers, is his by right of lordly self control.

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He is too set in order to organize and harmonize,

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to abolish its dissensions and painful contradictions, and bring it

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to a state of peace. Thus rising up and exercising

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his rightful spiritual authority, he enters the company of those

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kingly ones who in all ages have conquered and attained,

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who have overcome ignorance, darkness, and mental suffering, and have

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ascended into truth,