NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



nest persistent desire compels 

 obedience. Answer to prayer is 

 a growth, a building up or down 

 to what you wish. Wishing is 

 asking. Ask what you will and 

 from that instance receiving you 

 receive. Here is the Christian 

 doctrine of answer to prayer ; here 

 is Christian science ; here also are 

 psychological control, mind-heal- 

 ing, mesmerism. 



Do I ask, longingly, Why was 

 God more near to Abraham and 

 Moses than to me? If Enoch 

 walked with God why not I? He 

 who so questions has already his 

 hand upon the latch of the door 

 of the new kingdom. 



Translate John xiv. into the 

 language of evolution:' Let not 

 your spirit have unrest. In the 

 inner kingdom are many stages 

 and forms of growth. If it were 

 not so I would have told you. I 

 go within, away from your outer 

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