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act as a covering over the faculty of infinite
knowledge of the ego. (ii) “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of
sin" (John, viii. 34). It is this servitude or bondage of sin which is to be terminated by the knowledge of
truth (John, viji, 32). (5) This bondage is destroyed by the practising of
asceticisin and other forms of purifications
that are destructive of desire. (i) "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die;
but is ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Romans,
viii. 13). (ii) " He that soweti to his flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlast
ing” (Galatians, vi. 8). (iii) " Mortify therefore your members which are
upon the earth" (Colossians, iii. 5). (iv) "For to be carnally minded is death ; but to
be spiritually minded is life and peace."
(Romans, viii, 6.) (v) “Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is
the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
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