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   1  The acute belief of physical life comes on at a remote
     period, and is not so disastrous as the chronic belief.
   3      I have seen age regain two of the elements it had lost,
     sight and teeth. A woman of eighty-five, whom I knew,
     had a return of sight. Another woman at

    Eyes and
    teeth
    renewed

   6  ninety had new teeth, incisors, cuspids, bi-
     cuspids, and one molar. One man at sixty
     had retained his full set of upper and lower teeth without
   9  a decaying cavity.
         Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal; but the beauty
     of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as
  12  mortal belief. Custom, education, and fashion

    Eternal
    beauty

     form the transient standards of mortals. Im-
     mortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its
  15  own,--the radiance of Soul. Immortal men and women
     are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind
     and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness
  18  which transcend all material sense.
         [[[Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Be-
     ing possesses its qualities before they are perceived hu-
  21  manly. Beauty is a thing of life, which

    The divine
    loveliness

     dwells forever in the eternal Mind and re-
     flects the charms of His goodness in expression, form,
  24  outline, and color. It is Love which paints the petal
     with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches
     the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with
  27  starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness.]]]
         The embellishments of the person are poor substitutes
     for the charms of being, shining resplendent and eternal
  30  over age and decay.
         The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and
     more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure

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