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and He enunciated this law when He uttered those little-
understood words: “If any man come to me, and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and
sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
“And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after
me cannot be my disciple.
“... whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that
he hath, he cannot be my disciple.”
Not that we are to leave, nor underestimate family ties,
but that we are to rise above them. Father and mother are
“bodies;” all relations are part of the Race—which belongs
to For m. The souls must recognize that they are not Bodies,
nor Races, but Egos striving for perfection. If a man forgets
this, and identifies himself with his Race—clinging to it
with fanatic patriotism—he is likely to become enmeshed in
and sink with it when his compeers have passed to greater
heights on the Path of Attainment.