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compared with that same planet in its productive period, but from the first it holds all good and beautiful things in its bosom. They are there, but concealed. Man is just the same in his process of unfoldment passing from the primal, chaotic, burning or passionate period of his existence to his perfection of being.

The path from evil to good is the path of penalty, of pain and suffering, or more strictly speaking, the point of departure from evil is marked by pain, for pain is that which fences in evil, and like a barbed wire excludes us from forbidden precincts. There is nothing within those precincts which we really desire or which is tributary to our happiness, therefore pain is beneficent and good in the ultimate.

All states of becoming are more or less evil, and we pass out of each owing to a degree of pain or discomfort which we experience and from which we would escape. This engenders restlessness, want, desire, action, which all amount to the same thing. All are forms of a discontent (discontent) signifying emptiness, vacuum, a lack of contents, a state in which the mind does not contain or hold within itself something which it desires. It is hungry and seeks fullness, reaching out into its environs for impression and experience. This is the secret of action, the secret of evolution, the secret of becoming.