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some extent in todays! lecture. This is not the place to plunge into the highly controversial subject of what revelation implies and what is its true source, for we shall have better opportunities for that purpose later on; here it is sufficient to state that the true function of scripture is to instruct mankind in the proper way, so that they may obtain the highest good by conforming to truth, To this extent any Scripture is valuable, provided that it proceeds from a properly qualified source. As already stated to day, the word of an Omniscient Teacher, who directly perceives the past, the present and the future and who knows all things and their relations, is the true criterion and final test of the validity of a logical relationship (vyápti), so that what is not in agreement with the Scripture of Truth must necessarily be the cause of error and undoing and dowvfall. :
This exhausts the subject of this evening's discourse and we shall therefore stop here too.
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