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(6) " For there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested ;
neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him
hear" (Mark iv. 21-23). 3. Happiness is the Nature of the Soul : a) " And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come
to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and
sighing shall flee away" (Isaiah xxxv. 10). () “But the fruit of the spirit is . . . joy ... peace” (Galatians
v. 22. (c) “Who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross ” (Heb. xii. 2). (d) “And exultation is said to be gladness . . . which is
according to truth through a kind of exhilaration and
relaxation of the soul" (A.N.C. Lib. xii. 361). 4. The Divinity of the Soul :
(a) " I said, Ye are gods” (John x. 34). (6) “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus :
Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery
to be equal with God” (Philippians ii. 5-6). (c) “For once the crown of righteousness encircles thy brow,
thou hast become God ... Thou hast been deified and begotten unto immortality ... This constitutes' know thyself,' or, in other words, learn to discover God
within thyself " (A.N.C. Lib. vi. 402). 5. All Souls of a like nature : (a) “Because as he is, so are we in this world ” (1 John
iv. 17). (6) “... For souls themselves by themselves are equal”
(A.N.C. Lib. xii 362). (c) “... If the heavenly virtues, then, partake of intellectual
light, i.e., of divine nature, because they participate
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