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direction of the phenomenal, and lose himself in the pursuit of the knowledge of good and evil, or, resolutely turn his back upon the world, and become absorbed in the realization of his immortal, blissful Self. The first path leads to trouble, sickness, death, and hell, but the second is the moksha-marga proper--the road to bliss and blessedness unabating.
The attainment of bliss is possible only for those who push the animal-end of the see-saw of existence below the level of neutrality, and, thus, raise the God-end up.
Accoding to the Bible, Adam strove for the acquisition of the power of objective discrimination, and thereby developed his lower nature, with the result that the God-end of the see-saw went down and the animal-end became uppermost.
Jesus, understanding, as he did, the secret of the Genesis legend, began to push the lower end down, and succeeded in doing so at the Place of Golgotha. The blood of the Christ within, but not of the historical Jesus, is on our hands. The ideal for the realization of which we ought to give our heart's blood is being slain by us; and it is the guilt of this crime which hangs heavy on our souls. It is only when the lower nature is slain that the higher acquires ascendency. "Jesus' must suffer, so that Christ might appear; and even Christ must give way to God, so that the full blaze of the glory of the * Father' may be brought into manifestation. Christ here stands for God-man, or the state in which the traces of the lower nature are not altogether destroyed, although they are all, more or less, suppressed. This is, however, a very different thing from what the clerics
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