Let the despairing take heart again. Believe in the Power within you
and you will rise to heights before undreamed of. With this Power
to help you, you can accomplish the apparently impossible.


  APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III.


Our life here is not governed by a capricious Being who blows first
hot and then cold or who favours one person and tortures another.
The Supreme Being works through laws that are absolutely just and
unchanging. Therefore all disaster and trouble in the life is the
effect of certain causes. These causes are our own wrong doing in
the past, which set in motion forces, against which the power and
wit and wisdom of man are powerless. [4] However, because the
fundamental law of the Universe is love, it follows that the working
of the law of cause and effect is not vindictive. Its object is our
highest good, viz., to bring us into union with the Divine or in tune
with the Infinite. Therefore, by rising up to a higher plane and
coming more into harmony and union with the Divine, we rob even big
fate of something of its power. We cannot oppose it, for by so doing
we fight against Omnipotence, but we can _forestall_ it by doing
willingly, and of our own accord, that very thing which experience
comes to teach us.

  [4] Another cause is that the soul has failed to learn certain
      lessons, therefore, in this life, many painful experiences are
      brought to bear, in such a way, as to teach the necessary
      lessons. The lessons are, however, learnt only if painful or
      unpleasant experiences are met in the right way. So long as
      man believes that he is unjustly treated by fate and that he
      does not "deserve" what life metes out to him, he intensifies
      his troubles, both now and hereafter, through not learning the
      lessons that life desires to teach. When, however man realizes
      and admits that life is just and that the cause of all his
      troubles is within himself, he, like the prodigal son comes
      to himself and, soon afterwards, begins his homeward journey.
      Yet another cause is that the soul is deficient in character.