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On behalf of the author, her friend, William James addressed the original publisher with the following statement:<br> <br> "I recommend hereby to your attention...<br> ...a genuine record of moral and religious experience, profoundly earnest, and calculated."<br> <br> * * * *<br> <br> Nonetheless, we, the producer of this book take a great chance by exposing to you, in it's entirety, the last chapter with the hopes that you may be interested in the previous 99.9%:<br> <br> LOVE<br> <br> LOVE is too lofty a theme to be broached by any but the wisest minds, to be handled by any but reverent hands. From the viewpoint of this chapter I may but look at it from afar, may but kiss the hem of its garment; yet with that touch and that look know that its effulgence is spread over me, that its virtue passes through me.<br> <br> LOVE unlocks closed portals, builds a beautiful archway through the densest of woods.<br> <br> LOVE is a pain, an aching, yet sings when all else is sad.<br> <br> THE death of the loved one brings life to the lover.<br> <br> LOVE looks out through open windows, lays a hand on the departing soul.<br> <br> LOVE blinds because it dazzles.<br> <br> LOVE envelops one in a beautiful soft mist which sheds its whiteness on all around. It must then be of the nature of ethereal light.<br> <br> LOVE pierces the farthest vistas, knows that sometime, somewhere, it may claim its own.<br> <br> LOVE purified, intensified, floods the heart with light and wisdom.<br> <br> LOVE loses its loveliness in too many words.