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The principle of evolution is not in matter - it is in will, whose action reaches to, and affects the
invisible order of things, as it affects the order visible and material. The one is but the consequence of the
other. The highest principle, the motor of existence, is the will. Divine will is the motive power of life
universal.
What is important above all is to know that we can realize all things in the psychic domain. No force
remains sterile when it is exercised constantly with an aim conforming to right and justice. That is the case
with the will: it can act equally sleepy or waking, for the valiant soul which has fixed its aim pursues it with
tenacity in one as in the other phase of life, and so determines a powerful current with silently undermines
obstacles.
The will is preservative as well as creative. Will, confidence, optimist are sufficient in themselves
often to turn away evil. While discouragement and fear disarm us and leave us without defense. The fact alone
that we look trouble in the face and affront it diminishes its effects. The will, it is power! Its prowess is
without limit.
The man conscious of himself feels his forces grow with his efforts. He knows that all he desires that
is right and good must be inevitably accomplished in the course of his existence when his thought accords with
divine law. And in this is verified the celestial words, 'faith can move mountains. It is most consoling to say, 'I
am a free intelligence. I made myself through the ages - I build slowly my individuality and my liberty, and
now that I know the force and grandeur in myself, I lean upon them. I do not veil them for one moment
without, and by them, with the aid of God and my brothers in space, I will lift myself above all difficulties - I
will vanquish the evil in me - I will detach myself from all that chains me to gross things, that I may take my
flight to happier worlds. I see clear the route which I am called to tread. It leads on and on, without end. But a
sure guide conducts me along this infinite way. I have learned to know myself, and I believe in God, and in
this immense road which opens before me I walk firmly and will to grow greater, and to elevate myself with
the aid of my intelligence, the daughter of God, and to attract to myself all the moral riches, and to participate
in all the marvels of the cosmos. My will calls to me - on - always on! Always more knowledge, more divine
life: and by it I will obtain the fullness of existence and construct a better and more radiant personality. I have
forever left behind me the inferior and ignorant being unconscious of his value and power. I assert the
independence and dignity of my consciousness, and reach my hand to all brothers, saying, 'Awaken from your
slumber - tear off the material veil which envelops you - learn to know yourself and the powers in you, and
learn to utilize them. All the voices of nature and of space cry, 'awake and march on! Hasten and conquer your
destiny!'
To you who believe yourselves spent by suffering and disappointments, beings afflicted, hearts torn by
bitter trials and wounded by the sword of adversity, I come and say: 'There is no soul incapable of rebirth, of
new gloom. You have but to will, and there will awaken in you unknown forces. Believe in yourself - in your
immortal destiny! Believe in God, the sun of the sun - immense source of light, of which you are a ray - a ray
that can be illumined into a glorious flame. Every man can be good and happy if he wills it with energy and
continuity. Divert your thoughts without cessation toward this truth, that you can become what you will to be,
and will to be always better and greater.' It is the idea of eternal progress and the means of realizing it: it is the
secret of mental force, from which flow magnetic and psychic forces, and when you have acquired this
mastery of yourself, you will no longer suffer from the evils of life, but will have made of your ME inferior an
individuality high, stable, and powerful.
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