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struggle and many a fierce effort to re-assert the power and authority with which they have hitherto been invested. Here the lamp of faith must be constantly fed and assiduously trimmed, for all the light it can radiate will be required to guide and encourage the traveller in the dense gloom of this dark Valley. At first his desires, like so many wild beasts, will clamor loudly for gratification. Failing in that, they will then tempt him to struggle with them that they may overthrow him. And this last temptation is greater and more difficult to overcome than the first, for the desires will not be stilled until they are utterly ignored; until they are left unheeded, unconditionally abandoned, and allowed to perish for want of food. In passing through this Valley, the searcher will develop certain powers necessary to his further advancement; and these powers are: self-control, self-reliance, fearlessness, and independence of thought. Here also he will have to pass through ridicule and mockery and false

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