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light." In the True Life there is no poverty, disease or unhappiness. They are only shadows of the "apparent life," and when the True Life appears these shadows flee away.

The Vedanta has a beautiful teaching that the Central Consciousness or Being is Pure Bliss, and I believe that to be absolutely true.

The Swami Abhedananda says: "True Life, or Being or Blessedness is beyond time and space and is not bound by conditions of any kind." He also says: "Unblessedness consists in the idea of the separateness of the part from the whole, and in the bondages of other imperfections, arising from this mistaken notion of individual isolation. To be united to the Whole, to be free from the bondages of these imperfections, and to be perfect, is Blessedness."

The New Thought is proving to Man that he is not separated from the Whole of Being, but that he is one with it and inherits its power and perfection.

Hold up your hand with the fingers extended and the palm toward you, and you will see what is meant by being one with the Whole. Let the palm stand for Being and the fingers stand for external expressions of that Being. From out the palm extend the fingers and their life proceeds from the palm. Sever the connection and the fingers die because cut off from the source of their life. You are a finger on the Palm of Being and you are one with it. The Living Whole is the sum of its living parts so you are one with the Whole.