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fortunately, anylacking quality can be evolved and if one does not possess these threenecessities his first work is to create them. These three things arean ardent desire, an iron will and an alert intelligence. Why arethese three qualifications essential to success and what purpose dothey serve?Desire is nature's motor power--the propulsive force that pusheseverything forward in its evolution. It is desire that stimulates toaction. Desire drives the animal into the activities that evolve
entity follows your awareness, and since you are ultimately everything, it can and will identify with whatever is in your awareness. This is the danger of a teaching that doesn't point to or convey the existence of true nature. If something is not even talked about or considered, it is much less likely that awareness will notice it, and also much less likely that identity will ultimately shift into it. This is why it is important to teach and explore the nature of all of the qualities of
o the standpoint where he is able to realize that such a law exists. His evolution in the future must be by conscious participation in the great work, and this can only be effected by his own individual intelligence and effort. It is a process of intelligent growth. No one else can grow for us: we must each grow for ourselves; and this intelligent growth consists in our increasing recognition of the universal law, which has brought us as far as we have yet got, and of our own individual
to laws of the faculty of desire. The faculty of DESIRE is the being's faculty of becoming by means of its ideas the cause of the actual existence of the objects of these ideas. PLEASURE is the idea of the agreement of the object, or the action with the subjective conditions of life, i.e., with the faculty of causality of an idea in respect of the actuality of its object (or with the determination of the forces of the subject to action which produces it). I have no further need for the purposes
closely resemble that of a refined product of a coarse idea, and the only method of deciding between degeneration and evolution would be the examination, if possible, of intermediate and remote ancestors. The evidence brought forward by believers in the Wisdom is of this kind. They allege: that the Founders of religions, judged by the records of their teachings, were far above the level of average humanity; that the Scriptures of religions contain moral precepts, sublime ideals, poetical
Now, fixing our attention on this upper half, suppose we found itmarked like this,-----------| | || 1 | || | |-----------that is, with a red counter in No. 5. What would this tell us,with regard to the class of "new Cakes"? Would it not tell us that there are SOME