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intelligences of a low order living in different regions of the universe and they are fed and nourished with low, vicious emanations going out from men, animals, impure food, etc. Oblations of blood, flesh and spirituous liquors are offered to propitiate those intelligences in practices of black magic. They may for a time help the performers of such sacrices, but ultimately enslave them.
But the true sacrifice consists in giving up the lower nature, crucifying it on the alter of Higher Self-thus beco:ning one with "the Father in Heaven." This ancient truth was mangled and murdered by theologians in the east and the west; let us all join in reviving and restoring that truth to its former purity and thus help mankind in freeing theniselves from the bondage of ignorance that is forced upon them.
JAINISM.
For this, the last lecture of the course, the subject that I have selected is Jainism, and I shall condense as much as possible the things that might be said on this subject. Any philosophy or religion must be studied froin all standpoints, and in order thoroughly to grasp the ideas of any religion or philosophy, know what it says with regard to the
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