in temporary things we
may appear to do so, because the rich grow richer at the expense of
the poor; the tyrant ruler maintains his power at the expense of
serfs; but doubt not that _eternal equation_ is perfect.

There is still another query: If true sex-union is of the soul, what
is to prevent soul-mates from finding each other at the moment of
death, regardless of their fitness for godhood, and thus
circumventing, as it were, the plan of Creation, which would compel
each one to earn the prize of eternal life?

The same law governs the interior planes as the exterior. The
realization of consciousness is not a capricious matter any more than
is the law of physical growth. A man might be in the presence of
untold wealth, but if he had not the consciousness to know and realize
values, he would remain poor, even though by a wave of his hand he
might command millions. One might give a blind man a check for a
million dollars, and if he had no others means of knowing what it was,
he might easily imagine it to be worthless. Death does not bestow
wisdom. Wisdom is acquired. Love is a self-generator.

If you would follow the law of transmutation and acquire the throne of
angelhood, get busy within the laboratory of your own mind. Take the
crucible of Thought and begin to work interiorly upon the common,
everyday things that present themselves in your environment. This is
the only way of transmutation. Love grows by feeding upon itself, and
the sacrifices and the kindnesses that are bestowed in love without
thought of personal benefit grow into the flood of golden light and
love of the spiritual realms.

The chief virtue in any one's pursuit of philosophy, or of esoteric
wisdom, and in methods of attainment, is found in the fact that such
effort is proof of earnest desire to attain. Emerson says that the
principal benefit of a college education is to teach the student that
he does not need a college education. This estimate of the value of
years of study seems at first glance a sarcastic one, but it is not.
If this wisdom can be acquired in no other way, then even so it were
well worth the price. If the student can learn that much love is the
price of transmutation only after exhausting every other method, what
does it matter, so that he finally learns it?

_Learn to look into the hearts of men._

At first sight, everything on the busy city street is a part of a
moving panorama; but an intimate view, when you get in touch