− | 160:1.1 Early Monday morning, Rodan began a [[series]] of ten addresses to [[Nathaniel]], [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]], and a [[group]] of some two dozen [[believers]] who chanced to be at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala Magadan]. These talks, condensed, combined, and restated in [[modern]] phraseology, present the following [[thoughts]] for [[consideration]]: | + | 160:1.1 Early Monday morning, Rodan began a [[series]] of ten addresses to [[Nathaniel]], [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]], and a [[group]] of some two dozen [[believers]] who chanced to be at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala Magadan]. These talks, condensed, combined, and restated in [[modern]] phraseology, present the following [[thoughts]] for [[consideration]]: |
| 160:1.2 [[Human]] life consists in [[three]] great drives—[[urges]], [[desires]], and [[lures]]. [[Strong]] [[character]], commanding [[personality]], is only acquired by [[converting]] the [[natural]] urge of life into the [[social]] [[art of living]], by [[transforming]] present [[desires]] into those higher [[longings]] which are capable of lasting [[attainment]], while the commonplace lure of [[existence]] must be [[transferred]] from one's [[conventional]] and [[established]] [[ideas]] to the higher realms of unexplored [[ideas]] and undiscovered [[ideals]]. | | 160:1.2 [[Human]] life consists in [[three]] great drives—[[urges]], [[desires]], and [[lures]]. [[Strong]] [[character]], commanding [[personality]], is only acquired by [[converting]] the [[natural]] urge of life into the [[social]] [[art of living]], by [[transforming]] present [[desires]] into those higher [[longings]] which are capable of lasting [[attainment]], while the commonplace lure of [[existence]] must be [[transferred]] from one's [[conventional]] and [[established]] [[ideas]] to the higher realms of unexplored [[ideas]] and undiscovered [[ideals]]. |