Make ambition your business and indifference your relaxation, and you will fail; but make indifference your business and ambition your relaxation, and you will succeed. So impish are the ways of the gods. I do not flatter myself that my coming has deflected your course of action by a hair’s breadth. You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today. It is part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously. I will fear no evil, for I know that the Great Judge of all controls my every act.

Your words are too acute not to strike my sense of humor. It is true that you mean to use the accident of my presence as part of a very definite effect; or that, at least, it was the secret pretext you found for breaking your promise to talk to Mrs. Reese. She had sometimes been accused of being too eager—even Ava had warned her to go slowly. Well, she would not be too eager in this case; she would give us a longer taste of suspense. Where duty and inclination jumped together, it was not in Mrs. Reese to hold them asunder. Let every fear of people be removed from me and let the silence of my mind bear witness to the truth.

I do not know why you are always accusing me of premeditation. If you mean that I have no one to think for me, I am obliged to think for myself, I am quite willing to accept the imputation. However, you must find me a dismal kind of person if you suppose that I never yield to an impulse. My genius? Is there any final test of genius but success? And I certainly have not succeeded, yet. It is only a miracle as everything else in life is a miracle. A definite, conscious idea has been set in motion in the Subjective World, which accepts ideas at their own valuation and tends to act upon them.

From everything—from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that is what I call success. I know—I know it is strange; but that is just what I have been feeling today. You think me horribly sordid, do you not? However, perhaps it is rather that I never had any choice. There was no one, I mean, to tell me about the republic of the mind. To despair of success, is to prevent our succeeding.

Somewhere in the back of my conscious was taking shape the horrid realization that a modern-minded fledgling was as complex as a nuclear reactor, a communications satellite, an intel Pentium 14 computer, a microwave oven, Deedle, a cell phone and all the other intricate overarching newfangled creations I could not understand.  Of course, it was all a matter of exploding sophistication. Or mystification.

Of all human dealings, satire is the very lowest, and most men and common It is the equivalent in words for what bullying is in deeds; and no more bespeaks a clever man, than the other does a brave one. It is astonishing with what avidity we look for the application of satire which is general, and never a prototype. The thoughts of the tomorrows and the yesterdays are swallowed up in the great realization of the perfect here and the complete now. Today, I completely accept my wholeness.

Out of the darkness of the long night the dawn has come. Phillippe Manor was lit up like a lantern in the rural dark, doors thrown open on the front porch, floodlights on, I rise to meet the new day, filled with confidence and strength. I arise and go forth into the dawn, inspired and refreshed by the living spirit within me. Oh day, you shall never die; the Sun shall never set upon your perfect glory.

The lamp of the life has been re-kindled with the oil of faith, and love has cleansed the windows of life with the spirit of gladness. They shall nevermore grow dim with fear, for perfect love casteth out all fear. I am renewed in strength through knowing good. My light has come. I have no doubts nor uncertainties My faith in the power of God is supreme. Commit yourself to the current of the World. Nothing is more common than to call our own condition the condition of life. As love enters, fear vanishes. Life is a game of calculation; and he that plays the best of t is the cleverest fellow.