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bodily comforts, sitting in high places, wearing long robes, uttering long prayers. Men who follow the Abel standard attain to increasing felicity in their subsequent incarnations, and finally to Godhood, becoming Immortal, All-knowing, and Blissful. Those who pursue the Cain standpoint may possess large banking accounts, beautiful and beautifully furnished houses, large estates and kingdoms, lovely robes and may command the homage of their fellow-beings. Those who follow the Abel standard make themselves destitute of money, are humble and meek, and lowly; if they have money they do not boast of it and will not employ it as a means of gratifying the animal passions. The followers of Cain believe in an end in the grave, and are unable to try to override death, and disease and calamity, as those of Abel shall certainly do one day.
In all religions these two types are distinguished and their values pointed out in some form or other. In Christianity it
has been said:
"Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger."-Luke vi. 21 and 25.
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." -James iv 4.
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world... If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." -John ii. 15-17.
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Jainism explains, in the scientific way, that Spirit and Matter are two of the existing substances both of which are eternal. They are in union in the case of the embodied soul, but they can be separated from each other. Many persons have already separated their Souls from Matter and attained
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