an you can break that
of another. No power on earth or in the celestial spheres or in the
intervening spaces can keep that which is our own from us. Wherefore
then, should we tear ourselves and each other with strife and jealousy
and wounded honor and outraged marriage vows, when either partner to a
marriage contract sees fit to sever that relationship?

If you lose out in what you believed to be love, be sure that the
object of your desires was not yours to lose; in all the spheres there
is only one who is yours by divine right and no one can by any
possibility usurp your place in the final issue; and that place once
found no one can oust you from it. But remember what we have said in
previous chapters of the word "found;" it is from within.

How vain and how foolish it is to think that a power so stupendous, so
magnificent and so beneficent as to project this immense panorama of
life; to establish such marvelous diversity within such simple unity;
to bestow the bliss of love, could make a mistake. How puerile has
been the teaching that we can sin against the Eternal God. We need not
worry about the Supreme and Eternal Power. "The dice of God are
loaded." Our concern is with ourselves, lest we imagine that we may
cheat in the game of life.

We are self-centered, free-willed; immune from any possibility of
offending the universe. The whole problem of life and death, in so far
as it relates to our individual selves, is "up to us." We can delay
arrival at the goal of our desires; we can dally by the wayside if we
will. Only our own loss, our own suffering, our own unsatisfied
longing shall punish us. But who is so stupid that he would remain
wandering in the bleak and barren desert, when he might by a turn of
his hand enter fields Elysian and merge his soul into the boundless
areas of infinite bliss and wisdom?

We should not imagine that death will do this for us. Death is nothing
more phenomenal than withdrawing from one room to another. The soul
may strive on for ages through many incarnations. Only one thing can
free it; and that is love; love for others than the personal self. The
broader and deeper the love nature, the wider it reaches out to enfold
in its tender protection all living things, the more nearly divine we
become, and the sooner will we touch the area of the spiritual and
attract our own.

It is evident that self-seeking even for so worthy a possession as
one's own counterpart defeats the very effo