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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
if the tow be not steeped in the pitch-af sin, but in the water of purification and regeneration, the fire of the demons shall not be able to be kindled in it."-(Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 407.
“Pardon me, my son ... for I have not yet much pr&ctice in these things : for indeed your discourses yesterday, by their truth, shut me up to agree with you; yet in my consciousness there are, as it were, some remains of fevers, which for a little hold me back from faith, as from health, For I am distracted, because I know that many things, yea, almost all things, have befallen me according to Genesis."-Ibid. p. 433.
“It is the rational element which we must believe to be its [soul's] natural condition ... The irrational element, however, we must understand to have accrued later, as having proceeded from the instigation of the serpent--the very achievement of the first) transgression--which thenceforward became inherent in the soul, and grew with its growth, assuming the manner by this time of a natural development, happening as it did immediately at the beginning of nature . . All sin, however, is irrational."-(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xv. p. 442.
“For God alone is without sin; and the only man without sin is Christ, since Christ is also God. Therefore, when the soul embraces the faith, being renewed in its second birth by water and the power from above, then the veil of its former corruption being aken away, it beholds the light in all its brightness."-Ibid. p. 506.
"For the demons (1.e., desires allegorically*], having power by means of the food given to them, are admitted into your bodies by your own hands; and lying hid there for a long time, they become blended with your souls. And through the carelessness of those who think not, or even wish not, to help themselves, upon the dissolution of their bodies, their souls being united to the demon, are of necessity borne by it into whatever places it pleases. And what is most terrible of all, when at the end of all things the demon is first consigned to the purifying fire, the soul which is mixed with it is under the necessity of being horribly punished, and the demon of being pleased. For the soul, being made of light, and not le of bearing
* See Chapter 19.
