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254 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
benevolence, of friendship, of ambition, of familism,
of love. To have these, he must have society, exten
sive and varied enough to gratify all these passions in
all their various developments. The soul pines, and
withers, and dies in isolation. And as the soul suffers,
the body also becomes weak and diseased. Our muscles
become wearied with inaction ; we long to use them,
but by long disuse, they at last lose their power. So
of the passions. We long to love and to be loved ; we
long for the sweet accords of friendship, and the in
spiring stimulus of ambition ; these are longings the
weariness and ennui of the soul. Those who do not
know their own natures, feel vague yearnings ; those who
have studied them more carefully, have more definite
of the soul must be
desires. These passionate longings
satisfied, or we can have no spiritual health, and the
body reflects the soul.
In the world, as it is, till exercise, and, consequently,
all development, is fragmentary. The blacksmith and
the boatman have large arms, the dancer has fine legs,
the musician is all tune, the painter all form and color,
an artist is nothing but an artist, a politician is but a
politician, the man of fashion is a mere dandy. There
is no complete human being any where. There is
sharpness, and even force, in particular directions, but
no integral development and universality of power.
Where is the man who is all he should be in himself
and in his relations to God, and nature, and society ?
Where is the woman, strong, beautiful, self-centered,
brave, religious, honest, kind, friendly, loving, wise, ac
complished, with a true pride, and a noble ambition ;
strengthening the weak, guiding the erring, animating