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in the course of his career, as an incarnating ego, consists in his insulting his Soul by regarding another as his creator, and by paying his homage to a creature of poetical fantasies. Sinlessness, consequently, consists in a belief in the divinity of the soul itself. We may now enquire into the nature of
REVELATION to which almost every religion attributes its Scriptures. Jainism, so far as we know, is the only creed which claims for its Scripture the authority of omniscient men.
Many and bitter have been the quarrels which this unfortunate word—'revelation'-is responsible for ; for the disputants always take care to assert that their own books alone, to the exclusion of all other Scriptures in the world, are the repository of revealed truth, thus giving rise to a painful feeling of anger and resentment against, rather than to a sense of veneration for, the creed whose supremacy they would like to assert and establish. But nobody, it seems, understands the nature of the thing which they all unblushingly invoke in their aid.
The misunderstood or half-understood Word of Law in the hands of fools and dunces, thus, becomes a prolific source of hatred and strife, rather than the harbinger of blessing and peace which it ought to be. If this is the immediate effect of the power of Revealed Word, we are glad that this book has so little to do with that kind of revelation.
But let us proceed to meet the argument strictly logically. Taking the case of the Bible as a concrete instance, we can say of it that it is either a revealed Scripture, or not. In the former case, the truths con
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