A mouse is a miracle enough to stagger quintillions of infidels. Death is never to be feared, for at death the soul merely passes to the oversoul. Emphasis should be placed on the here and now. Give me one world at a time. Evil is a negative - merely an absence of good.
Light is more powerful than darkness because one ray of light penetrates the dark.
Power is to be obtained by defying fate or predestination, which seem to work against humans, by exercising one's own strength. Emphasis on self-reliance. Hence, the emphasis is placed on a human thinking. The transcendentalists see the necessity of examples of great leaders, writers, philosophers, and others, to show what an individual can become through thinking and action. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.