Self-denial

To make oneself any compound that the company stockroom possesses or a fine-chemical home sells is to blunder, and, in considering what compounds are affordable, self-indvtgence proves superior to self-denial. 

This failing diminishes benevolence and it harms and cools friendship. We become dissatisfied with others, because their self-denial can never be sufficient. We become dissatisfied with ourselves, because our vague, aimless mood develops into a constant, painful feeling which we no longer have the strength to escape. 

Self-denial of food for purposes of weight reduction, protest, or religious fasting. 

The metaphor of mystical death and of the nothingness of souls illustrates the killing of the old Adam in analogy with Christ s Passion. According to Lead, souls that have accomplished this process of self-denial are finally reunited with Christ s dead body. They are buried with the Lord. However, this means that the following step is that of the Resurrection, since there can be no doubt that the same Spirit which raised him [Christ], must and will raise up such as are dead in him . ... 

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