ne of consciousness, may be termed "evil" as here used.

Let us consider for a moment if it be illogical to imagine a world in which
this in harmony has been eliminated. Imagine a family in which all the
members radiate love and unselfish consideration. Add to this, or we may
say complementary to this, we have perfect health and prosperity; and over
and above all we have a conviction of immortality, eliminating doubt and
fear and worry as to future sorrows or partings, with no knowledge that
there are others in the world suffering.

Do we not find it quite possible, to say the least, and even desirable, to
live in such a family, particularly if we had previously acquired a
knowledge of that which is evil and that which is good--merely terms used
to describe limited, or enlarged consciousness.

If we admit the desirability of living in such a family, why not in such a
world? "Logically stated," says the Hindu swami, "this means that man's
goal is this world (earth planet); carried to a state higher and with the
elimination of its evils, this world is the state (place) they call
heaven."

Again we must question. Why not?

This planet we call earth, is a great and marvelous work, whether it be the
work of an abstract God, or whether it be the work of the god in Man.

And whether this earth be the gift of an abstract God, or whether it be
the generating bed of the life now upon it, the fact remains that we have
no business to despise the gift, or the work of self-generation. Our
business is to enhance its beauties and eliminate its ugliness. Why have we
prayed that the will of God which is Love, "be done on earth as it is in
the heavens," if we despise the planet and hope to leave it?

Although the general impression given in all religious systems is that
the perfected soul leaves this earth, yet there is nothing in any of them
to prove that it does so, or if it has hitherto, that it shall continue so
to do. We have no right to assume that the outer life--the external,
manifested life which we perceive with our physical senses, is all there is
to this earth and that when we leave this outer life, we go to some other
_place_. The _invisible_ life on this planet is unquestionably far greater
than the _visible_ but both visible and invisible doubtless belong to the
planet earth.

The Absolute, presumably occupies all space, and therefore it may as
reasonably be postulated that this state of Nirvana or Samadhi, may be
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