NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



a far-off heaven, and yet Christ 

 or the inner kingdom may never 

 have been known to him. 



The most pathetic and pitiful 

 thing in all the world is to see 

 the multitudes striving to get out 

 of the kingdom of the natural 

 man what is not in it. 



The man is father to himself; 

 long before the child is the man 

 was. Long before Abraham was 

 he is. By the acts of his own free- 

 will he determines his place in the 

 universe. The law of attraction 

 in the inner world is as irresisti- 

 ble as the law of gravitation in 

 the outer world. The ego as it 

 comes to its birth in the kingdom 

 of the natural man goes to its 

 own. I can not gravitate by an 

 arbitrary will in the non-material 

 and spiritual world, but I can de- 

 termine my character, and what- 

 ever and wherever that is it must 

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