In like manner, we must refuse to think of any evil as real in itself, coming as it does from no other cause than that of our believing a shadow to be a reality. In other words, we must take consciousness above and back of our usual mode of confused thinking, and begin to think only in the terms of light - knowing that the shadow, with all its train of shadows, are one and all mere shadows, not to be considered or recognized in the least. Then we must also know that when we begin to think wholly in the light, that entire train of shadows will disappear as completely as if there never had been such things in the world.

In training the mind to abandon the old way of thinking - thinking both in the darkness and in the light, and to adopt the new way of thinking in the light only, we must mentally face that state of being which will be realized when the conditions desired have been attained. In other words, if we wish to eliminate the shadows we must turn all the actions of the mind upon that state in which we shall find ourselves when we no longer cast a shadow. And that state is spiritual transparence. Our strongest desire therefore must be to become spiritually transparent; for as that desire becomes an active part in all the workings of the mind, every power in the mind will be directed upon the ideal of spiritual transparence. Accordingly, the entire mind will begin to transform itself into a finer and finer degree of transparence; for the law is that the mind invariably tends to become like that ideal to which all its powers are directed, provided all the actions of those powers are inspired with an invincible desire to attain unto that ideal.

Thus, by placing spiritual transparence before our mental vision as the one supreme state we wish to realize, we cause everything within us to conform more and more with the law of transparence. In consequence, these conditions that obstruct the light will gradually disappear, not being produced any more; the mental atmosphere will be cleared; and our thinking will become so clarified that every part of the mind will transmit all the light that may come upon us from higher realms. The result will be that more and more of the divine light will shine through our lives and natures; the shadows therefore will become less and less evident until they do not appear again. Then we shall be surrounded entirely by the light; we shall live in the full light; all our thinking will be in the light; and when every thought is born of the light, in the light, there can be no evil, no sorrow, no wrong any more. Then will begin the emancipated life, the glorified life - the life we shall live when "our eyes are stayed on Thee" - when we live so deeply in the spirit and in the truth that we know only that which is wholly, completely and eternally of the truth.

When we consider the lives of those who have lived largely, who have lived richly, who have lived beautifully, we find that they have invariably transcended the mere demands of the senses; they have taken higher ground; they have gone up into the lofty, the sublime, the empyrian, and have trained their minds to be in constant touch with the finer elements of the soul world. In consequence, their minds have continually reached out for those vast worlds that lie beyond the realm of sense; and in these worlds they have found a universe, the richness, the beauty and the splen dor of which no tongue or pen can ever describe. There indeed have they found something to live for; in truth, they have literally reveled in gorgeous mansions of celestial luxury.

They have not, however, lived apart from the world of things. On the contrary, they have lived more closely to things than before because they have learned to see the finer world in all things. They have learned to hold that secret communion with the soul of nature's visible forms - they have entered into that sweet and strange relationship with the beautiful everywhere which has always been the privilege of the great soul, and which has always added so much to the loveliness, the joy and the real worth of life.

When we have learned to live constantly in touch with that finer world, we have learned a great secret - a secret that will serve us wonderfully well whatever conditions may be in that external world in which we now may live. If we are bountifully supplied with everything in the visible and the tangible, we shall be able to enjoy these things infinitely more if we can also see and appreciate the finer elements of worth and beauty which those things may contain. In truth, no one can enjoy the things that are seen unless he can also discern the glory and the splendor of the unseen.

Then if all external sources of supply and en joyment should fail us, as they sometimes do temporarily where all is change and reconstruction, we need not be affected thereby in the least if we are in touch with the greater good in the finer world. This higher source never fails and we may draw upon it sufficiently to make life wonderfully rich and beautiful regardless of the absense or presence of external possessions. We may enjoy the finer things to the full wherever we may be. And he who enjoys the finer things to the full is living a life that is not only great and wonderful, but is also sublimely beautiful.

We must not infer, however, that we need neglect the worthy and the beautiful in the external world in order that we may enjoy the greater riches of the finer world. On the contrary, we find that if we would live largely in the world of finer things, it is a great advantage to give our attention to the perfecting and the beautifying of external things. Our great aim must be, the best, the richest and the most beautiful for everybody on all planes. But the finer things must hold the first place in all that we think and do, because the world of finer things is the richest world and the most beautiful world of all; besides, it is only as we live for the finer things that we gain the power to enjoy the good and the beautiful that may exist in all other things. And to rise perpetually into the purity, the light and the glory of the finer world - this is how we attain to spiritual transparence; this is how we so refine and clarify the mind that the Great Light may shine through; and our own thinking and living will cast no shadow any more.