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not need any help from outside. It does not require anything from beyond itself. It is self-reliant, self-complete, self-sufficient and self-loving; while the apparent life, being an imperfect reflection of the True Life, depends upon the conditions of the environment, and represents imperfectly those higher qualities of self-reliance, self-completeness, self-sufficiency, self-love and independence, which make the True Life a blessed and perfect Whole.

"Unblessedness consists in the idea of the separateness of the part from the whole, and in the bondage's of other imperfections arising from this mistaken notion of individual isolation.

To be united to the Whole, to be free from the bondage's of these imperfections, and to be perfect is Blessedness. Each individual germ of life, which we have already called the apparent life, possesses an innate tendency toward the attainment of this Blessedness, and to freedom from the conditions of unblessedness.

Our earthly life consists in a continuous fight with the environments which have kept us away from the Central Truth, or the Blessed Life. We are constantly struggling to expand the sphere of self-love, by breaking down the walls of limitation which constrain the apparent life to a narrow selfishness, and thus to be united with the True Life of Perfection." There is in you the innate tendency toward