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Rh natures are similar to His. Man has been created in the image of God. If the methods here suggested are earnestly practised, you will know yourself to be a Blissful spirit and will realize God. In these things there is nothing that is found in Christianity and not also in Mahomedanism and Hinduism, not in the latter that is not in the former. Further, the methods laid down embrace all the conceivable means essential to the realization of God. They do leave out of consideration the thousand and one conventional rules and minor practices enjoined by the so-called different religions, because some of these relate to differences in the frame of mind of the individuals, hence are less important, though by no means unnecessary, and because others come up in the course of practice of these methods, hence do not require fuller treatment in our limited space.

The superiority of this method over others lies in the fact that it lays its hand just on the