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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
sense of identity between the immortal 'tenant and his tenement, the mortal tabernacle of flesh, and the latter the state in which the tenant'knows himself as not only different from his tenement, but also as the Perfect Paramâtman ---Omniscient, Immortal and Blissful. As a consequence of being involved in the state of fall, man lays all the stress, he can, on his physical body-a perishable compound of matter-and ignores the God within, thus forcing the Infinite, as it were, to vacate his throne, and placing the finite, bodily puppet in his place. Redemption implies a change of this weakening, mental attitude to enable the soul to evolve out its divine attributes in fulness and perfection.
We have seen that the soul is made of pure intelligence, the substance which thinks and knows; and the relation between thought and belief is that the latter constitutes a mould for fixing the former's form. It is for this reason that the soul speedily becomes what it actually believes itself to be. It would follow from this that if it replaces the sense of its identity with the body with one in its own Godhood, it will actually become God as soon as the right kind of belief becomes fully established in its consciousness. The main thing, then, is.to acquire the belief in one's own divinity. But this is not an easy inatter by any means. In order to achieve this result, one must have faith in what has been said above. That really means that one should have absolutely no doubt about the doctrine, and that the conviction of its truth must saturate the mind through and through ; for the least doubt creeping in will neutralize whatever little faith may have been ac
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