Becoming Is The Mode Of Activity Of

Strength Your Soul Against The Stalk Of The Ego, Make It Worth Of The Name Of Diamond Soul.

Reflect Upon The Defects Of Your Character: Thoroughly Realize Their Evils And The Transient Pleasures They Give You, And Firmly Will That You Shall Try Your Best Not To Yield To Them The Next Time.

Science Regards Man As An Aggregation Of Atoms Temporarily United By A Mysterious Force Called The Life-principle. To The Materialist The Only Difference Between A Living And A Dead Body Is, That In The One Case That Force Is Active, In The Other Latent. When It Is Extinct Or Entirely Latent, The Molecules Obey A Superior Attraction, Which Draws Them Asunder And Scatters Them Through Space. This Dispersion Must Be Death, If It Is Possible To Conceive Such A Thing As Death Where The Very Molecules Of The Dead Body Manifest An Intense Vital Energy.

We Live In An Age Of Prejudice, Dissimulation And Paradox, Wherein, Like Dry Leaves Caught In A Whirlpool, Some Of Us Are Tossed Helpless . . . Ever Struggling Between Our Honest Convictions And Fear Of That Cruelest Of Tyrants -- Public Opinion.

Donkeys Have The Courage To Bray After The Death Of A Lion. (not Meant To Glorify Carnivorous Practice).