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and sympathy, and that if they show love and sympathy to others it will work no good result for theinselves. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. It is not the fault of love, but the fault lies in the mind which reflects the perverted idea. It gives out a disturbed reflection.
There are also several impurities which are of a manifold character. It may be the result of a physically diseased condition of the mind. I told you in a previous lecture the mind is made of activity, stability and grossness. If one of these ele ments predominate it will color the character of the mind. If a person is very gross, the mental condition will be very gross and that mind will reflect only gross figures. It will not give any fresh, or any new light to such a person. Now this is only so far as the physical cause is concerned.
There are mental causes which are lust, jealousy passion, anger, deceitfulness, and all these forces working within the mind disturb the mind, and it will always give out disturbed reflections. Such disturbed minds cannot reflect the truth.
Other vibrations will also be of a defective character. If the disturbance can be removed, suppressed, of destroyed, if the anger, jealously, passion and lust, can be annihilated, then pure impressions can come from the mind. People do
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