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Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brody Patterson,

published in 1915.

Life is a state of consciousness.

The visible world is a mirror of what humanity is felt and thought

and done. But it is not a prophecy of what you shall be. For what you shall be is written

into the soul of you, and only as you learn to express your soul life, can you enrich the world

in which you live and prepare yourself to receive new mysteries from the kingdom that lives within

you. Without consciousness, there would be no meaning to human existence.

Our objective consciousness consists largely of material things, and our thoughts and emotions

in relation to them.

Consciousness consists then of what we feel and what we think, and from such feeling

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