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The things which are seen are temporal, says the Apostle;
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[192] Men are constantly living under the glamour of the seen, and are blinded by it to the unseen. The aspirant must learn to discriminate between them, so that what is unreal to the world may become real to him, and that which is real to the world may to him become unreal, for thus only is it possible to
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[193] And thus also must a man become one of those of whom the Apostle says that they
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[194] Next, this sense of unreality must breed in him _Disgust_ with the unreal and the fleeting, the mere husks of life, unfit to satisfy hunger, save the hunger of swine.[195] This stage is described in the emphatic language of Jesus:
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. [196] Truly a
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and yet out of this hatred will spring a deeper, truer, love, and the stage may not be escaped on the way to the Strait Gate. Then the aspirant must learn _Control of thoughts_, and this will lead to _Control of actions_, the thought being, to the inner eye, the same as the action:
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Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, _hath committed adultery_ with her already in his heart. [197] He must acquire _Endurance_, for they who aspire to tread
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will have to brave long and bitter sufferings, and they must be able to endure,
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[198] He must add to these _Tolerance_, if he would be the child of Him who
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[199] the disciple of Him who bade His apostles not to forbid a man to use His name because he did not follow with them.[200] Further, he must acquire the _Faith_ to which nothing is impossible,[201] and the _Balance_ which is described by the Apostle.[202] Lastly, he must seek only