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Circumstance
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JAMES ALLEN
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Published April,
91
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lot
use.
THEhow
ing
problem of
life
is
to live. It
problem
When
mastered,
all
difficulty disap-
and the problem has vanished. All the problems of life, whether they be social,
pears,
political, or religious, subsist in
ignorance
in the
at present is
is
con-
own
igno-
As men
and use
their functions
and
will
faculties
will
of life
mastery
put an end to
the wise,
all
To
Bryngoleu
Ilfracombe,
England
Contents
PAGE
IO
19
BODILY CONDITIONS
zy
POVERTY
man's spiritual dominion
40
49
53
King
Circumstance
Cfce 3(nnet C23oriD of Cfcougfcts
MAN
misery.
is
the
misery. Further, he
the creator
and perpetuator of
his
These things
They
mind
deter-
it
fol-
must
alter the
To
exchange
necessary to re-
verse the fixed attitude of mind and habitual course of condudl which
[
is
the cause of
a^an
tog
A
of
Q^mD
has no power to
mind and
life.
man
Man
cannot
He
There
is
is
great
power
in self-con-
quest; there
self.
Each man
circle;
tal
is
circumscribed by his
own
sphere.
He can
;
up
to the high
and
as
he does
this,
he
will pass
For men
low or high
*]
Their world
conceive
it
is
as
to be, as expansive
and glorious
Everything
around them
is
their thoughts.
Consider the
is
suspi-
How
small and
to him. sees
no
ing.
Even
his
god
is
men and
he
women
to be just as petty
and
selfish as
mean and
base.
is
un-
magnanimous.
is
wondrous and
tures
beautiful
his world.
How He is
and beings.
to
him they
ment become
temporary
uplift-
life.
this large-
man
live in
contrary.
They
rate,
they
never mingle.
The one
is
and
exists.
To
The one
keeps
and
is
[4
TBoDp anD Circum0tance
scious of the fa& that he
is all
He
throws
open
his
They have become a part of himself. They are in his sphere of thought, his world of consciousness. From his heart
of chara&er.
it
returns to
him
love
who
The
what
natural grades in
human
society
and
rail
he
will
not alter or
them.
There
states
is
no
artificial
remedy
for equalizing
affinity,
princi-
The
lawless
hatred nor
in
[5]
60an;
I&mgof^mD
muturude and ill-mannered
circle
The
from the
refined
own
may remove
of heaven he
who conforms to its principles receives the password. The ruffian moves in a society of ruffians; the saint
is
one of an
eleft
brethren whose
communion is
divine music.
men are mirrors reflecting according to their own surface. All men, looking at the world of men and things, are looking into a mirror which gives back their own reflecAll
tion.
own
thoughts, and
all
non-existent to him.
He
The
vinced
the
man
that there
is
no further
[6]
lesser
cannot con-
served; and
when
his circle
impinges upon
is
manhood, when he
himself for
ion with
wisdom
have become
sufficient to
convince him
still
beyond of
which he
is
is
as yet
entirely ignorant.
Men,
themselves
in standards or classes to
The
cur-
is
a mystery
boy
in the first
it is
yond the
circle
7]
he reaches
it
by persistent
effort
and patient
growth
in learning.
all
growing
learning
his
the sphere of
the teacher. So in
are dark
life,
men whose
deeds
selfish, full
sonal
desire,
cannot
comprehend those
and
unselfish, whose
whose deeds
are bright
growth
sion.
in
And
all
lower and
higher standards stand the Teachers of mankind, the Cosmic Masters, the Saviours of
the world whom the adherents of the various
religions worship.
ers as in pupils,
There
to
occupy
a pulpit or
[8]
man
a teacher.
man
is
constituted a
which
calls forth
of mankind.
Each man
more, no
of his
less.
is
as
low or high,
as little or
no
own
his
company.
He
He can
his
He
can pass
When
he chooses and
selfish
airs
of a
more expansive
life.
[9]
Cfce titer
mo rio of Cfcinp
is
THE
lesser.
world of things
The
Matter
is
and
which each
related to
man is involved are intimately his own mental needs and develis
opment.
Man
He
is
bound
them by the
peculiar inti-
macy and
roots of
interaction of deeds,
and by those
human
society.
One
cannot
his passing
aside his
whims and wishes, but he can set whims and wishes; he can so alter
of mind towards externals that
his attitude
He can-
10
Span: ffitfngof^mD
but he can rightly fashion his adions towards
them.
cumstance by which he
surrounded, but
it,
or find the
way out
by ex-
truly, the
glass gives
mind gives a distorted refledion of the world. Subdue the mind, organize and tranquilize it, and a more beautiful image of the universe, a more perfed perception of
disturbed
the world-order, will be the result.
Man
his
his
is
has
all
own mind,
power
and perfed
it,
but
in the outer
made
plain
when we
a world of
men and
things, a unit
amongst
ad independently and
[
"
Q0an;
ftUng;
ofa^tnti
My fellowa
do be
menace
expels
to
them, they
against me.
will
As
human body
its
politic instinc-
members.
in-
are so
many wounds
body
will
politic,
of its wounds
This
ethical cause
and effed
is
differ-
is
acquainted. It
its
is
but
applica-
body of humanity.
No ad
Your most secret deed is invisibly reported, its good being proteded in joy,
aloof.
its
evil
is
a great
of "the Book
is
because of this
self,
i2
you
fects,
and
it is
also because of
perfe&ing of one's
own deeds
accomplishment.
The
deeds
that
you
are
is,
and deeds
cause of
is
The
your bondage
in.
as
of your deliverance
with-
The
is
injury that
comes
to
you through
the
others
reflex
own deed,
ripened deeds.
The
fruit
of
life,
both
bit-
ter
in just
measure.
The
righteous
man
is free.
None
their
themselves
'3 ]
own
hurt, leaving
him unharmed
that goes
and untouched.
The good
from
him
is
of happiness, his
is
seren-
flower
is
joy.
a
man
sees in the
adion
ad of slander
is
the
and subsist
in his lack
of understanding
He
thinks the
ad
utterly
doer of
it.
Thinking himself
agitated
injured, the
man becomes
harm
H]
lBotip
and Circumstance
itself.
The
man has proved this by the fad: that the same a& has ceased to arouse in him
any disturbance.
fore ignores
it.
It belongs to a sphere
he has ceased to inhabit, to a region of consciousness with which he has no longer any
affinity.
He
ing absent.
no more
injure or disturb
by throwing stones
Buddha,
It
was to emphasize
to the
end of
And
it
as with the
condudt of others, so
is
and circumstances
with surroundings
]
'5
it is
the mental
atti-
In reality the
all.
these things at
to
them
weak
ele-
ment
in his nature.
is
The
real
"want"
that
hampers him
tude of mind.
right atti-
When
when he
are the
"drawbacks"
is
to
mount
success-
gives
birth to invention,
The
man
is
mind
his circumstances,
16]
He who
continue
become
to prick
will
he
rises into
man-
will
submit to
a severe taskmaster to
us
free.
We
forge our
own
own or we
own
all
palaces, or
roam
in
freedom through
I
scenes and
events. If
think that
my surroundings are
will
keep
me
and
bound. If
life, I
think that, in
my
thought
can
rise
above
my
surroundings,
One
should
"Are they
leading to
we
fear
17
90an;
i&tng;
of
Q^mD
we
are
know
our
free, if
we
see in
reactions
us trouble or
in
our
life,
for then
we
'8
anD
its
jfreeoom
MAN
did not
is
Man
them,
make
life
and
its
to
make
subsists in discrimination
and choice.
Man
He
To
discovers,
is
at
defy them
folly
and bondage.
Who,
he can
live as
he
likes,
or the
right?
Man
is,
in the nature
of things, a being
alter;
but he
19
a9an:
EmgofcpmD
He cannot alter the
law
No man
it
of gravitation, but
to
it;
all
men
adapt themselves
to
it,
they use
by bending
it.
not by
defying or ignoring
Men
do not run up
hope that
this
They
walk alongside
cipices.
and keep
clear
of pre-
Man
can no
it
unwisely.
As
scientists
and laws
is
in the
same way.
man
wise director
its
maker ,
let
me
reiterate,
its
arbitrary
commander, but
by virtue of
He
is
20]
man whose
habits of thought
is
and
He
the
habits of thought
man by
trans-
his habits.
He does
he adapts
alters himself;
ples.
He
by enlisting
of the higher.
The
is
Habit
is
repetition.
Faculty
is
fixed habit.
Evolution
is
is
mental
accumulation.
Man,
to-day,
the result of
He
still
is
is
predeter-
2i
et9an: filing
of^mO
The
thought, the
mined by
becomes.
his
own
choice.
Thus
each
man
is
an accumulation of
The
characteristics
which he manifests instinctively and without effort are lines of thought and a6tion
last,
unconscious, to repeat, as
of
its
it
takes
will
powerless to
all
counteract
This
is
habits,
man
cc
victim" of a bad
disposition."
All
men
are,
ject to their
good or bad
own
habits,
is,
whether they be
that
[
subject to their
]
own
deeds.
Knowing
is
the wise
man
chooses
to subjedt himself to
good
service
become
misery,
wretchedness, slavery*
is
of slavish pradlices,
enables
him
to be-
come
is
so fixed in
good courses
as to
do them
in
"born"
as the helpless
man
to
is
the instrument of
accurate, he
blind, and
mental forces,
is
those forces,
new
self in
though
born with
is
the proit
dud of numberless
and
fied
lives
during which
has
effort,
will
be considerably modi-
by new experiences.
a bad
are
habit, or a
he
by
and they
it
can, so long as
away from
its
and be-
come free,
habit ; and
replacing
it
opposite good
as
when
the
its
dominance
will
That which
man
wills;
he so wishes and
as pleasurable. It is
[
when
it
24]
better.
No man
slave will
is
The
very
emancipated master.
but to aft upon
it,
To know
that
is,
this,
he has
deliberately
lines
of
new and
complish
better lines.
ac-
this in a day, a
week, a month,
is
new
repetitions to
become
and
and
of habit of
is
certain
infallible,
and a
line
effort patiently
is
doned,
for if a
become
and
firm,
surely can a
good condition,
c
25
span: fcmgofSpnO
ciple,
A
so
man
only
is
remain. Nothing
mind.
habit
The
not the
of overcoming
a
How can
as
a
is
man overcome
convinced that
he
it is
How
is
can a
it
man
be pre-
when he knows
it?
and
determined to do
has
overcome
my sins."
all
Bring
its
this
thought out
it
nakedness, and
evil,
with
of good. For a
man
[
he cannot
rise
to submit to evil,
is
to aban-
By such
man
changed attitude of mind changes the character, the habits, the life.
Man
is
his
own
deliverer.
He
dom; he can
still
he
still
remains bound.
The
is
Great Deliv-
erer
is
within;
Spirit
He
is
is
and the
;
of Truth
Good and he
efFe&s,
in the Spirit
of
Good who
their
dwells habitually in
good a&ions.
not bound by any power outside
these
_Man is
his
he can
"I
27
]
cannot
rise,"
"I
cannot
alter
my
nature/'
in the things to
exist
only in thought.
"I
of
oped
until
it
becomes a powerful
tree
good and
life-giving fruit
free.
Habit
primarily in thought, secondarily in deed. the thought from bad to good, and
Turn
and
it
will
and
it
will take
you
He who loves his bondage, let him remain bound. He who thirsts for freedom, let him
come and be
set free.
[28
TBoDtlp Conditions
THERE
body
;
its
place in so far as
ing,
evil
;
even where
for with
all
it
the
many
religions.
removed by
I
pal-
Our
do not
infer
by
have no
causation.
The microbe
[29]
Q0an: ftmgofe^inD
black death was the instrument of uncleanliness,
and uncleanliness
is
is,
primarily, a
visible
mind, and
has
which we
call disease
human
is
mind
con-
by violently con-
and
his
is
body attacked by
in a state
morbid elements.
tal
He
of men-
inharmony and bodily discomfort. Anifrom disease because they are from
free
inharmony.
They
free
from those
these inner
all
overcome
[
and
sense
30]
and
will dispel
become restored
to bodily
harmony,
to wholeness, health.
The body
in
it
is
thoughts.
The
may
its
makes
for
it
it y
it
not produce
it
magically, as
were,
bottle
free,
though one should swallow of medicine and then be whole and but the mentality becoming
as
if
is
restful, if the
moral stature
ily
wholeness
is
being
laid,
and even
if
per-
fed health
is
ment, whatever
its
power
31
to
mind.
One who
sarily at
suffers in
body
will
not neces-
fashion his
bringing to a
and throwing
off,
effects
condition
a
may appear
to be intensified.
As
man
diately he enters
through
a painful period
same
Time
health
is
not reached,
will
be approached.
If the
mind be made
condition will take a secondary and subordinate place, and will cease to have that pri-
mary importance which so many give to it. If a disorder is not cured, the mind can
[
32]
above
it,
and refuse
to be
subdued by
One
of
spite
The
statement so often
made by
happy
is
disproved by the
numbers of men
who have accomplished the greatest works men of genius and superior talent in all
departments
bodies,
have been
afflided in their
as a stimulus to
mental adivits
and
work.
health,
is
mind,
be in any way
disordered
on, as though the
strong, but
33
a healthy
mind,
sound body.
sickly
mind
is
a disordered
body, and
leads to sickliness
is
of body.
The
mental invalid
in a far
more
There
knows
themselves into
body
is
whole and
capable.
all
who are called by the name of man. The man who imagines that the wholesome food
he
is
eating
is
come
tal
to bodily vigour
strength.
To
and
lar
safety as being
dependent on a particuis
every household,
The
vegetarian
who
[
34]
him
poison, that he
is
and so on,
is
bust meat-eaters
fears
who
live
and morbid
self-scrutinies.
To imagine
when one
misun-
hungry and
in
tive
of health and
totally to
The
it.
of food
is
to sustain
a strange delusion,
and one
that
must
that
readt deleteriously
possesses so
many who
life.
One
me
35
and yet
this
rid
of
gences and foolish excesses before attributing our diseases to such innocent causes.
a manifestation of
weakness of
character.
upon
is
upon happiness
disease; as
and health
much more
"Let
who
from
hate us!
hate us
let
us dwell free
36
TBoDp anD trcum0tance
" Let
us
live
happily
then, free
from
ailments
let
" Let
are greedy
let
Moral
When ear-
man
to reorganize his
in-
down
to the
most apparently
significant detail.
whims and
of foods.
When
nourishers of the
stroyers.
its
de-
[37]
fortify
it
with
an invincible protection.
are
The
life
morally right
the
bodily right.
To
be continually
from passing
to discipline details
by moral principles
is
and order.
domain, to perceive the
For
it is
in their personal
moral order. In them alone resides the insight that penetrates to causes,
and with
them only
all
is
command
as the
filings
and place,
of
body
is
to
above
it;
to be
its
be tyrannized over by
not to pander to
it,
not to abuse
its
it,
never to put
claims
an
its
in a
and
is
yet a safe
way
to cure,
and
it
is
[39]
MANY
all
is
of the greatest
men through
Why
great
men
a bride,
The
answer
is
is
plain.
mind which
appearance of evil,
up and makes it appear good and beautiful, makes it seem more attractive and more to be desired than riches
but which
lifts
it
mode of life. In
of our great
thing that
is
cities is
mean and
repulsive
-with
[40]
9^an:
tfng;
of^tntJ
filth, laziness, dis-
swearing, drunkenness,
What,
then,
is it
is
the pri?
mary
evil
is
is
it
poverty, or
answer
inevitable
its
it is sin.
sting
is
gone;
it
has
it
ap-
good and
as
an ex-
ample of
on
rice
Where this poverty would have made other men discontented and miserable,
it
can set
it
off to better
The
virtues of
Yen-hwui shone
ground.
It
is
common
[41
which
it is
Where
there
and were
and pov-
man would become immoral and every poor man would come to degradation.
An
or
evil-doer will
commit
evil
under any
conditions.
A
to
already there
cause the
evil,
cannot create
it.
and
some
a year,
cases
pounds
com-
They im-
[42
They
are not
made unhappy by
for riches.
Poverty
more
often in the
as a
mind than
thirsts for
in the purse.
So long
will
man
more money he
and
regard him-
self as poor,
in that sense
he
is
poor,
for covetousness
is
poverty of mind.
is
A miser
poor as
as
On
rtiany
who
is
and deg-
radation
condition.
laziness,
To
be living in
dirt, disorder,
and un-
deplorable.
Here
again,
"povto be
in-
itself into a
mental condition,
is
and
its
solution, as a
"problem,"
[43
and
alert within,
and he
will
no longer be
Having put
others will
right
his
mind
in order,
he
will
then
in order; indeed,
both he and
know
by the
fadt that
His
altered heart
shows
in his altered
are,
life.
There
of course, those
who
are nei-
Many
They
remain poor.
ous,
but
those
are dissatisfied,
and
and
ment and
more responsible
life
which
they desire.
Devotion
to
duty
is,
way out of
regarded
[44]
fluence, influence,
and
even
to perfection
itself.
it is
deepest sense
that
is
all
It includes
singleness of pur-
and
self-reliance,
is
tion which
the key to
greatness.
he replied, "Getting up
my own
business."
come
him who
life,
of his
may
here be urged
urged
in
and
is
usually so
who
are
[45
a9an:
work. This
is
^tngof^tnD
Time and opporthe poor above
a mistake.
body
at all times.
Those of
happy
in their
feel that
they
by educating themselves
The hard-worked poor are, above all, the people who need to economize their time and energies; and the youth who wishes to
time.
rise
set
provement of
ment.
mind
in that course of
education which
By
this
influential
of
men throughout history some have raised them among the greatest
[46]
as
is
destruftion of opportunity
is
the incentive to
those
who
upon achievement.
it is
Poverty
is
an
evil or
not, according
to the character
in poverty.
Wealth
is
To
a great evil.
He
longed for
always an
evil, for it
both
it,
and
menace
to society.
logical
and pro-
will
always bring us
When
our
social reformers
vice as they
now condemn
the
now
[47
may look
form of
human
heart
and deep
as
is
yet
whose hearts
men, and
are already
eat of
pure)
unknown
to
all will
[48
THE kingdom
that of his
over which
man
is
desis
life;
but
this
king-
dom,
as already
the universe,
it is
not confined to
which
to
and
Thus
a
man
upon him the gift of insight into human hearts, giving him the power to distinguish between good and evil, also to comprehend that which is above both good and evil, and to know the nature
acy of wisdom, bestowing
At
present
men
are
more or
less
under
conquest of these
of
life.
is
The
[49
99an:
&mg of Si^mD
and others by
transposing
The
and coddling of
a sin-laden
body cannot
The
wise
is
no
real
finally as-
springing
up within them,
in
the calm
Man
his life
own mind;
can
spiritual
dominion
is
com-
The body
The
tite
ruling of the
body
is
and passion
that
is,
of appe-
The
ing,
spiritual
the wonderful
all
men
must,
man
comes
day when
his
In that day, he
The
serf,
he now
his
and bring
it
to a
of peace.
rising
Thus
up and
[51
who have
52
Conquest:
Jftot
Resignation
HE
who
evil;
is
he
good.
obedience to good
is
To
"
I
and sorrow,
is
to igno-
to say in
life
is
eflfed:,
am
defeated;
evil,
is
and
the
reverse of religion. It
a diredl denial of
good;
it
supreme power
sorrowful
Such sub-
itself in a selfish
and
life
against temptation,
dominated by good.
Man
is
[53]
good man,
There
are
for
good preserves
evil. Its
and
shields.
is
no laws of
nature
The conscious
ter
away from
evil
at present,
no part
common
course
of education.
Even our
religious teachers
practice,
have
lost this
knowledge and
and
it.
Moral growth
about by the
is,
so
far, in
brought
The
form an impor-
and
when no man
self-control,
will
be able to
fill
the position
of preacher unless he be a
man of habitual
and ex-
unblemished
integrity,
sound
instruction in the
will
The do&rine
author
is
the
54
in the
is
enjoyment
the teaching of
ages.
all
Howsothe doc-
ever
it
of
be the do&rine of
is
And
the conquest
but of the
evil within;
of
evil
when
every
man
own
heart, to
where
in the
"There
of
is
when
all
all
traces
sin
and sorrow
be
unknown and
;
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