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XVI. 33), then, indeed, would the prophecy,-" They shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover" (Mark, XVI. 17-18)-be fulfilled. This is all the redemption. Once more remember that, as in a dream you became an actor by virtue of the desire to win the fair heroine, so, in actual life, on this globe, it is the desire of the attractive things of the world which is the cause of your fall. You are Great and Glorious, and the Creator of your own sphere of thought; the Universe is the illumination of your own Idea.* Do not belittle yourself. Consider your Self above all the fair objects in nature; do not humiliate yourself by coming down to their level. Do you not laugh at the idea of your love for the fair Rosalind of your dream? Is it not because you think it ridiculous for the Real to fall in love with the false, the unreal, the transitory? By doing so you fail to recognize your Self, which is the Truth, and run after the Non-Truth. This is the only sin which shall be punished with death, and which cannot be forgiven. Jesus also says:--
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
"Verily I say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation" (Mark, III. 28-29.)
How can it be forgiven? You have no faith in the very Power which decrees forgiveness and restores the status quo; what forgiveness can you ask for theu ?
*Because all things are reflected in the Kevala Jnana (omniscience) of the Siddhatman (God', therefore, the universe is here said to be the illumination of the Idea (knowledge in a comprehensive sense) of the true self (pure spirit).
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