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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
amount to a practical demonstration of the matter of belief.
Faith is liable to be assailed and even destroyed by doubt. This happens when something which is irreconcilable with the matter of belief occurs in one's experience to unsettle the conviction. If the doubt is not disposed of naturally, that is, by study and investigation, it will tend to blast faith altogether, unless the tendency to the contrary be too strong to be repudiated by it. In the last-mentioned case it will be smothered, and faith re-affirmed by the will-ing side of life.
Right Faith is the belief in the divinity of one's own soul and a disbelief in the patronage of any external protector or god. It arises from investigation, partial or complete.
First of all the fury of fanaticism and bigotry is destroyed along with that of the principal passions of the worst-the boiling point-type. In consequence of this sobriety and open-mindedness will accrue to the soul; and it will now seek out the true teacher and hear the (scientific) truth from him. A further sobering down and clarification of the mind will occur, as the result of the discourse, to the soul, whose eyes may be said to have been opened now for the first time to perceive the truth. It will now think seriously on what it has heard, and acquire faith, as the result of the destruction of its doubts,
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