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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES 199 (v) " Behold, the kingdom of God is within you"
(Luke, xvii. 21.) (vi) “And no man bath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven ; even the son of man which is in heaven” (John,
iii. 13). (2) The fall of man, (i) "For all have sinned and conie short of the
glory of God" (Romans, iii. 231. (ii) "For God hath concluded them all in un
ielief," " (Romans, xi. 32). (3) Redemption by the Key of Knowledge. (i) “Woe unto you lawyers ! for ye have taken
away the Key of Knowledge : Ve entered not in yourselves, and them that were en.
cering in ye hindered” (Luke, xi.52). (ii) “Ye shall know the truth, and the iruth shall
make you free" (John, viii. 32). (iii) "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt, v. 48). (4) The bondage is the bondage of sin, that is to
say of wrong.doing (karias=actions that bind
the soul). (i) “Neither do men light a candle, and put it
under a bushel” (Mait. v. 15). The allusion here clearly is to the jnândvar. niya (knowledge-obstructing) karmas that
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