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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
"... the true athlete-he who in the great stadium, the fair world, is crowned for true victory over all the passions ... Angels and Gods are spectators; and the contest, embracing all the varied exercises, is, 'not against flesh and blood,' but against the spiritual powers of inordinate passions that work through the flesh. He who obtains the mastery in these struggles and overthrows the tempter, menacing as it were, with certain contests vins immortality. The spectators are summoned to the contest, the athletes contend in the stadium; the one who bas obeyed the directions of the trainer wins the day."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. pp. 419.420.
“... the good man ... is without passion, having through the habit or disposition of bis soul endued with virtue transcended the whole life of passion. He has every thing dependent on himself for the attainment of the end." Ibid. p. 453.
"But self-control ... perfected through knowledge abiding ever, makes a man Lord and Master of himself; so that the Gnostic 18 temperate and passionless, incapable of being dissolved by pleasures and pains, as they say adamant 28 by fire."-A.N.C.L. vol. x1, p. 455.
"For he who has not formed the wish to extirpate the passion of the soul kills himself."--Ibid. p. 458.
"Since, indeed, as land neglected by the cultivator necessarily produces thorns and thistles, 80 your senge, by long neglect, bas produced a plentiful crop of noxious opinions of things and dogmas of false science, there is need now of much care in cultivating the field of your mind, that the word of truth, which 18 the true and diligent lusbandman of the heart, may cultivate it with continual instructions. It 18 therefore your part to render obedience to it, and to lop off superfluous occupations and anxieties, lest & noxious growth choke the good seed of the word. For it may be that a short and earnest diligence may repair a long time's neglect; for the time of every one's life is uncertain, and therefore we must hasten to salvation, lest haply sudden death seize upon hima who delaye."(Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. 1. p. 328.
"And all the more eagerly must we strive on this account, that while there is time, the collected vices of evil custom may be cut off. And this you shall not be able to do otherwise, than by being angry with yourselves on account of your profitless and base doingo."(Recogartions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 328.
