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played her part and never again returns to the same Spirit, the spectator. Thus then in reality all bonds and pains are only supposed by the Spirit to be His own. By His very nature He is free from all fluctuations, in as much as He is above the Attributes, whose effect these fluctuations are. After the attainment of discriminative, wisdom, the Spirit steers clear of all notions of egoism, and attains to His own natural spiritual condition But the body continues for a time on account of the impulse previously imparted to it. And the attainment of wisdom having put a stop to the operation of all such agents as virtue, etc.,-the operation of which is a necessary cause of rebirth-the body falls, and the Spirit regains His true character, and attains to absolute and eternal beatitude, never to return to the cycles of metenipsychosis.
