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The first lessons consist in overcoming those wrong mental conditions which are most easily eradicated, and which are the common barriers to spiritual progress, as well as in practising the simple domestic and social virtues; and the reader will be the better aided if I group and classify the first ten steps in three lessons as follows:—

VICES TO BE OVERCOME AND
ERADICATED

Vices of the Body
1. Indolence.		First Lesson.
2. Self-Indulgence.		Discipline of the Body
Vices of the Tongue
1. Slander.
2. Gossip and idle conversation.		Second Lesson.
3. Abusive and Unkind speech.		Discipline of
4. Levity, or irreverent speech.		Speech.
5. Captiousness, or fault-finding speech.
Virtues to be Practiced and Acquired
1. Unselfish performance of duty.		Third Lesson.
2. Unswerving rectitude.		Discipline of
3. Unlimited forgiveness.		Inclination.