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In this connection let it be further added that the utmost confusion has resulted in the non-Jaina religions from an indiscriminate incorporation in their sacred books of all sorts of contradictory and discordant utterances of half-illumined men, believed to be possessed of prophetic inspiration. Their knowledge is not derived from even true clairvoyance; but most of them seem to have developed what is known as ku-avadhi (false or imperfect clairvoyance) to the Jaina writers. In many cases fragments of fanatical or oracular speech by religious enthusiasts and mediums have also been known to be treated as divine revelation. Many of the messages said to have emanated from God are so full of indications of human frailties, passions and weaknesses that it is impossible to believe that Wisdom was responsible for them. The truth is that prophetic inspiration is no exception to the psychic law, and has its origin in the Subjective Mind. Many of the prophets of the Old Testament epoch were men not particularly noted for their renunciation, or wisdom, and were, consequently, subject to all or most of the faults and frailties of common humanity. Besides, they were seldom free from the taint of selfishness, their inner communion being at times even necessitated by their social and political environment and conditions. The effect of all these drawbacks was that when they entered into the presence of the Soul, they invariably did so wearing the tinted spectacles of national and personal prejudices, and, therefore, what they saw was not the pure Truth as it exists in and for itself, but as it appeared to them through the colour of their glasses. Hence the Jewish conception of Jehovah as a
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