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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
"But if, while in this life, they had placed before their eyes the punishments which they shall then suffer, they would certainly have bridled their lusts, and would in no wise have fallen into sin. For the understanding in the soul has much power for cutting off all its desires, especially when it has acquired the knowledge of heavenly things, by means of which, having received the light of truth, it will turn away from all darkness of evil actions. For as the sun obscures and conceals all the stars by the brightness of his shining, so also the mind, by the light of knowledge, renders all the lusts of the soul ineffective and inactive, sending out upon them the thought of the judgment to come as its rays, so that they can no longer appear in the soul."--Ibid. p. 410.
"For while the physician's art,' . .. beals the diseases of the body; wisdom frees, the soul from passions."--(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. p. 115.
"The fear of God, who is impassable, is free of perturbation. For it is not God that one dreads, but the falling away from God. He who dreads this, dreads falling into evil, and dreads what is evil. And he that fears & fall wishes himself to be immortal and passionless."-(Syriac Documents) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 177.
""Be it according to thy faith.'-(Matt. ix. 29.) And where faith is. there is the promise; and the consummation of the promise is rest. So that in illumination what we receive is knowledge, and the end of knowledge is rest—the last thing conceived as the object of aspiration. As, then, inexperience comes to an end by experience, and perplexity by finding & clear outlet, BO by illumination must darkness disappear. The darkness is ignorance, through which we fall into sins, parblind as to the truth."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. 'p. 184.
"For our mind, whenever it is impressed delightfully with the image of a beloved one, always seeing the form as in a mirror, is tormented by the recollection; and if it do not obtain ats desire, it contrives ways of obtaining it; but if it do obtain it, it is rather increased, like fire having a supply of wood, and especially when there is no fear impressed upon the soul of the lover before the rise of passion. For as water extinguishes fire, so fear is the extinguisher of unreasonable desire."-(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 113.
