ritual faculties are
sufficiently developed, as are the ordinary sight and hearing. Even when
there is no clairvoyance and clairaudience, in the way of super-normal
development, the mind kept in harmonious receptivity to the divine world
may be telepathically in more or less constant communion with those in
the unseen.

"The power of our own will to determine certain facts is, itself, one of
the facts of life," says Professor Josiah Royce. The power of our own
will is but another name for spiritual power--that positive force to
which all events and circumstances are negative.

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"There never was a right endeavor but it succeeded," says Emerson.
"Patience and patience, we shall win at the last. We must be very
suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good
deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn a hundred dollars, and a
very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the
light of our life. We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the
household, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week;
but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a
sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will
carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up
again, old heart!--it seems to say,--there is victory yet for all
justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize will be
the transformation of genius into practical power."

[Sidenote: Eliminating Anxieties.]

A large percentage of the anxieties and perplexities of daily experience
could be eliminated at once and struck off the balance, never to return
again, if life were but viewed aright, and held in the scale of true
valuations. Nothing is more idle than to sell one's soul for a mess of
pottage; for the pottage is not worth the price. Seen in the most
practical, every-day light, it is a bad bargain. Not only is it true
that a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things that he
possesseth, but, conversely, as a rule, the greater the mass of things
the less the life. The spiritual energy becomes clogged and fettered and
strangled amid its entanglement with things. The very power of finance,
that might and that ought to insure its possessor a certain peace of
mind, a liberation from petty anxieties, and a power to devote himself
to higher aims, too often reverses this and chains him as to a wheel.
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