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for matter cannot influence the soul against its will (see The Key of Knowledge '), and Omniscience is a guarantee against the entertainment of desire. As a matter of fact, it is simply impossible for a pure Spirit to be moved by any kind of desires. Clement of Alexandria may be quoted to explain the point. Writes he :
* For it is impossible that he who has once been made perfect by love, and feasts eternally and insatiably on the boundless joy of contemplation, should delight in small and grovelling things. For what rational cause remains any more to the man who has gained the light inaccessible for reverting to the good things of the world?"-Ante Nicene Christian Library, Vol. XII. pp. 346-347.
On the physical side of the question, the eternal exclusion of matter from the purified spirit-substance it is that prevents the falling back of a Perfect Soul into bondage and transmigration. The Bible has it as to this : " And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie” (Revelation xxi. 27). This is really the Jaina view, and the scientific explanation of the fact that the Perfect Ones never experience a fall through infinite time. “His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall
