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to many acts we may counteract their effects by willing to do so. So the theory of Karma is pot in any sense a theory of fatalisin, but we say that all of us are not going to one goal without any desire on our part, not that we are to reach that state without any effort on our part, but that our present condition is the effect of our acts, thoughts and words in the past state. To say that all will reach the perfect state inerely because some one has died that they might be saved, merely from a belief in this person, wonld be a theory of fatalism, because those who havo lived a pure and virtuous state and have not accepted a certain theory will not reach that state while those who accect it will reach the perfected state simply for that reason and no other. The faith in Saviours is simply this, that by following out the divine principle which is in our own selves when this is fully developed we also shall become Christs, by the crucifixion of the lower nature on tho alter of the higher. We also use the cross as a symbol. All living beings have to pass through or evolve from the lowest, the monadic condition, to the highest state of existence, and cannot reach this unless they obtain possession of the three things necessary right belief, right knowledge and right conduct. The right belief is really speaking, is not that there is no passing through forms after death, but the soul keeps progressing always in its own nature without any backward direction at all. We
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