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THE FALL.
199 taken from "The Divine Pedigree of Man,' is given below:
God.
Man.
UVOD.
Omniscience
( Instinct or intuition.
Deductive powers (potentially perfect.) i Memory (potentially perfect).
Telekinetic energy. Telepathy. Natural emotions.
Omnipotence Omnipresence Infinite love
Love
...
These comparisons leave no doubt about the human soul being the repository of all godly virtues, which only need unfoldment to bloom into perfection. By far a vast majority of mankind, however, are quite unconscious of these godly. powers of their souls, and, therefore, unable to attain the perfection which is within their reach, since conscious exertion is necessary for spiritual evolution, and since conscious exertion can only be made in the case of things which are known. Our ignorance of these great powers and virtues of the soul is to be attributed, as already stated, to the employment of intellect to pander to sensual lust. Reason being, thus, the tenure by which man holds his free moral agency, and the power which enables him to train his soul, for weal or woe, it is not difficult to see why its employment as a procuress to the will has been described in the old Genesis legend as a 'fall.' Those who deride the ancient Indian civilization should remember that that much derided civilization was founded upon the spiritual requirements and necessities of individual life and society, and was calculated, on the one hand, not only to offer no resistance to the human soul in its spiritual
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