it takes the Goths and Vandals to keep him from dying completely.

It takes necessity to keep evolution going. Or else it takes an overweening ambition, which is after all the same thing.

And underneath and in it all is Desire, the great God, creating after his own image and likeness.

The more desire a man has the greater god is he, and the faster he evolves consciousness of his god-ship.

For thousands of years the race has been trying to crush out its desire, and the result was a paralyzed and half-dead race, with only here and there a live spot.

The “new thought” is really the thought that desire is God and should be encouraged to express And this new encouraging of desire has already resulted in wonderful growth and lengthening of individual life

“Oh,” exclaims the Orthodox One, “how can all desire Be good—how can desire be God and yet impel people to such terrible misdeeds—surely there are devil desires as well as God desires” And yet this same Orthodox One has read many times how “God hardened the heart of Pharaoh” to resist God’s own commandments about letting “his children go.”

Now harken: When you found no food in the pantry, and none in all the land, and still hunger grew, you went out without chart or compass into strange places, and you tried many queer things Some of these things proved bitter and unprofitable and you left them and went on and on And at last you found the New and Good thing But it was the very same old desire that made you try the bitter and unprofitable things, and the New and Good thing. You did not try the bitter things because you desired bitter things, did you? Of course not. All the time you hungered, hungered for the Good thing; and kept seeking it; and as soon as you knew the bitterness of the bitter thing you left it and went on, still seeking.

You see, you were in a Strange Land. You had never been that way before. How could you know what was bitter and what Good, except by trying them? Of course there were peo­pIe who told you of the bitterness, but there were still others who scoffed at the warning—who told you they had tried it and knew

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