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multitude of the concrete "l's” in the universe, is the outcome of pure logical abstraction and personification. When it is said that the outer world is devoid of reality, being merely a state of consciousness spun out from the raw material of sensations, the fact that sensation is only the resultant of interaction between the outer and inaer currents of vibrations is generally lost sight of. It is true that without consciousness nothing whatever could be known of the world, but it is no less true that the data of sensations only come from without. Hence, the objects outside in the world are exactly of the same description as they are perceived by the knowing faculty, notwithstanding the fact that errors are committed, at times, in their perception.
We may now unhesitatingly answer the question which necessitated the above enquiry by saying that it is not only possible for man to become God, but that he is already none other than God, in potency. The amelioration of his condition is, therefore, a matter which exclusively rests with him; and the power which enables him to attain this end is his own indomitable will. This leads us to a consideration of the means which speedily enable the soul to come into the realization of its great ideal. Investigation shows that the soul is in the bondage of its karmas the chains of which are composed of a very subtle kind of matter.
Hence, the tearing asunder of the veils of matter which go to obscure the inner spiritual illumination, is clearly the means for the realization of the Self as a being, allknowing, all-powerful and naturally blissful. Now, since these veils of matter are inaccessible to the human hands,
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