Evolution is the transition of the being from the status of slave to the status of lord or master of his own destiny.

Souls which have been in need for thousands of years, we are now disciples of good. And still in the stage of present experience, at times, unaware and distracted, if we learn, we make a secret of what we know; if we win, we create a monopoly of what we have; if we are emotionally perturbed, we conceal what we feel to the detriment of our fellow man.

Frequently, therefore, our spirits, blinded — do not see the blessings of providence; dea f — they do not hear the voices which shower down from on high; mute — they do not confess their own faults.

It behooves us, therefore, to consider that no one adds one millimeter of perennial imperfection to the imperishable work of God, in which we inevitably participate, since we were created, for the reason that all impure manifestations have the duration of one tiny bit of time visà-vis eternity.

Do not, therefore, rebel against difficult conditions in which you happen to be, in your earthly pilgrimage, regardless of what they may be.

If the law conceives the body according to the spirit, do not forget that the best positions, vis-à-vis the world, are those which offer us physical inhibitions, difficulties of birth, the physical heritages of bitter nature, the struggles and incessant obstacles, adversities and successive trials, since it is only in the circle of these apparent disadvantages that we know our own moral defects and aspire to the shining mansions of the Greater Life.

Study your facilities of the passing moment. Nearly always obsession enters human life with arms locked with these. . . .

If you have a conscience harpooned by remorse don’t surrender yourself helplessly to the barb by which your head is caught. Try to remake your destiny, by helping others, hour after hour, without forgetting that if the smile is an international language, so also is the groan. . . .

And in helping, act with alacrity since a remedy which arrives tardily is weakened in combating the sickness which has already progressed. . . .

Let us listen intuitively to the abyss of the past in the very depths of ourselves, since guilt, in the form of temptation, thrusts itself into us in the present, up to the final redemption of our own debts; nevertheless, even so, lean upon your work and calm yourself in hope, for even in the blackest darkness, no one is orphaned from the Divine Solidarity.

Lameira de Andrade