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PRACTICAL RULES FOR SOUL-CULTURE
born on some other planet, where birth is manifested in a different way without any pecessity of the combination of the male and the female principle. There are so many different planes of life that the mere study of the human life ought not to be made to apply to all the forms of life. We have studied only a few forms of the life of animals, huinan belngs, etc., but that is only the part which, under the present development of our science, of our eyesight even, we are able to study. We are not able to study other forms of life, innumerable in the universe, and therefore we ought not to apply the laws thus discovered to all forms of life. Our study is introspective, because our idea is that the soul is able to know everything under the right circumstances. The knowledge acquired in these conditions is of a sounder nature and of a more correct kind because the obstacles which come in the way of science are not there, Scientists do commit mistakes and think they no not; sdll knowledge is derived from inferences which we draw from certain premises which may not be right, of If the premises are right the inference may be wrong. We do not mean to say that there are always mistakes in the knowledge which is acquired through sensation or through matter, but sometime it is possible, and while it may be correct knowledge in many cases, we cannot rely on that. The highest knowledge is immediate knowledge derived by the soul without the assistance of any external thing, and the knowledge
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