title: The Old Soul's Guide: A Handbook for a Joyous Existence, Vol. 1
author: Carolyn Hawkins
description: This book communicates profound truths. The teachings enter at a deep level and assist the natural process of unfolding. -- <i>Lisheyna Hurvitz, M.A.Ed. Psychotherapist, Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Psychology, Divorce Mediator, Mental Health Consultant</i>
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  The struggle for existence v. 13.12, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 30 September 2017 
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  The struggle for existence 
   
   
  
  LIVING THE LIFE SERIES 
  THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE 
  The struggle for existence v. 13.12, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 30 September 2017 
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  It is only by extending empathy and sympathy that the individual can expand into the divine 
  and merge with universal love, the spirit of which is self-sacrifice. 
  By extending our love to all men, aye, to animals as well, we joy and sorrow with them, and 
  expand our souls towards The One that ever both sorrows and joys with all, in an eternal 
  bliss in which the pleasure of joy and the pain of sorrow are not. 
   
  First published in Lucifer, Vol. IV, No. 20, April 1889, pp. 104-11. 
  Republished in Blavatsky Collected Writings, XI pp. 147-56.
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  Frontispiece: Beggars in Samarkand (1870) Vasily Vereshchagin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 
  HE MOTHER OF LIFE IS DEATH. Nowhere is this truth more conspicuous 
  than in the ani