affairs are the direct outcome of the necessities of the human heart, and having reformed and transmuted those necessities, he has brought himself under the guidance of other laws operative in accordance with his altered condition; and having mastered and overcome the selfish forces within himself, he can no longer be subject to the laws which exist for their governance.
The process is also one of simplification of the mind, a sifting away of all but the essential gold in character. As the mind is thus simplified, the apparently unfathomable complexity of the universe assumes simpler and simpler aspects, until the whole is seen to resolve itself into, and to rest upon, a few unalterable Principles; and these Principles are ultimately seen to be contained in one, namely, Love.
The mind thus simplified, the man arrives at peace, and now really begins to live. Looking back on the personal life he has for ever abandoned, he sees it as a nightmare from which he has awakened; but looking out and down with the
