The Mastery of Destiny

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From Poverty to Power ; or, The Real- isation of Prosperity and Peace. All These Things Added. The Life Triumphant. The Mastery of Destiny. Poems of Peace. As A Man Thinketh. Out from the Heart. . Through the Gate of Good ; or, Christ and Conduct.

XCbe fllbaster^ of Besting m James alien Butbor of 1 ffrom poverty to jpo wevf" ** BIl Ubese TEbfngs B©oeot,: " Be a flDan TTbinfeetb," etc. 7*&?« #r/ #0 longer grim, O Destiny ! No longer art thou drear and dark and dread, A bsolute king and god arbitrary Seated in tragic state among the dead — Friendly and fair to man I see thee now, And light and beauty round thy lordly brow. mew Jgotfe an© fcoitoon <&♦ IP* Putnam's Sons Ube Iftnicfcerbocfter press Copyright, 1909 BY JAMES ALLEN ) Gl, A 2 5 1 S 2 7 PREFACE The discovery of the law of Evolution in the material world has prepared men for a knowledge of the law of cause and effect in the mental world.

Thought is not less orderly and progressive than the material forms which embody thought ; and not alone cells and atoms, but thoughts and deeds are charged with a cumulative and selective energy. In the realm of thought and deed, the good survives, for it is "fittest"; the evil ultimately perishes.

To know that the "perfect law" of Causation is as all- embracing in mind as in matter, is to be relieved from all anxiety concerning iv preface the ultimate destiny of individuals and of humanity — "For man is man and master of his fate" — and the will in man which is con- quering the knowledge of natural law will conquer the knowledge of spirit- ual law; the will which, in ignorance, chooses evil, will, as wisdom evolves and emerges, choose good.

In a universe of law, the final mastery of evil by man is assured. His lesser destinies of separa- tion and sorrow, defeat and death, are but disciplinary steps leading to the Great Destiny of triumphal mastery. He himself is unconsciously building, albeit with lacerated hands and labour- bowed form, the Temple of Glory which is to afford him an eternal habitation of peace.