Task not Difficult The task is not a difficult one. Appreciation of the limitations of the power of the depressing passions, and one's strength to extirpate them, and to be superior to them, are the only necessary prerequisites to victory. There is no tedious discipline, as in the various methods of repression in vogue; and dividends are immediately and continuously collectable on the fair face of the investment. No rule of conduct is necessary; for, out of Emancipation, only good conduct, to fit environing circumstances, can be expected; and yet, every Christian, every Jew, every Buddhist, every Mohammetan, every Free Mason, and every Odd Fellow, can accept Emancipation as a rule of life, without renouncing his other faiths and affiliations, because it is the fundamental principle of them all, expressed in terms of present knowledge, and unclouded by the shadows of ignorance and superstition, which gave the name of Dark Ages to a period of our history.
Skeptics Interested And outside of these devotees, there is the great mass of men, the so-called Skeptics, who claim to adhere to logic, and scientific sense, for their light on spiritual, as well as on material subjects. To these, Emancipation will be a haven of repose for their spiritual yearnings; and, unimpeded growth, under Divinely natural conditions, "will do the rest" for them all.
PRESCRIPTION
A Simple Remedy One grain of the assurance of Christ that man is made in the image of God.
One grain of respect for the responsibility of the care and culture of the Divine Essence with which we have been entrusted.
One grain of the command of Christ (implying a possibility) "Be ye perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
One grain of the example of Buddha that man can grow to perfection through the elimination of anger and worry and their brood of dependent passions.
One grain of the wisdom of Aristotle which declared that the passions are habits of the mind, and can be gotten rid of as physical habits are gotten rid of.
One grain of the assurance of Omar Khayyam that Heaven and Hell are within ourselves.
One grain of the assurance of Christ that "the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."