Courage is a denial of fear and of
the reality of fear's cause. But denial is only the beginning; the
really vital thing is confidence in self and in the huge friendly
Universe in which we live. Kindly remember this. You are not
making progress merely because you turn your back on the Night.
Progress means that you also turn face to the Sun and walk
buoyantly into the Day. Courage is affirmation:
I am the spirit of the soul
Harmonic with the Perfect Whole.
Why, the attitude of healthy denial is everywhere apparent. Permit
me to run over some of the things that are coming more and more to
be refused acceptance. You will understand that the items are
illustrations only. We are denying: The divine right of kings; the
littleness and unholiness of fundamental human nature; a God who
is a kind of huge carpenter; a Deity who needs to be appeased; a
Providence which punishes; the idea that some people are created
for toil and service and others for ease and to be served; the
notion that we must eschew all drugs or depend only on drugs; the
thought which makes disease an entity; the fancy that the illness
of some is a divine will; the feeling that wealth should not be
craved, or that it exists for a favored few; the creed that "evil"
is a necessary existence; the faith that heaven is reserved for
the "elect" who "believe" a number of things; the horror of an
eternal hell; the heresy that religion, the spiritual, need have
anything to do with creeds, rites or ceremonies; the feeling that
success is only for the favored ones of earth; and so on, and so
on.
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