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Speaker 1: Knowledge and victory.

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Speaker 2: Faith is the beginning of the triumphant life, but knowledge

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is its consummation. Faith reveals the way, but knowledge is

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the goal. Faith suffers many afflictions. Knowledge has transcended affliction.

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Faith endures, Knowledge loves. Faith walks in darkness, but believes.

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Knowledge adds in light and knows. Faith inspires to effort.

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Knowledge crown's effort with success.

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Speaker 1: Quote. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Unquote.

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Speaker 2: Knowledge is the substance of those things possessed. Faith is

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the helpful staff of the pilgrim. Knowledge is the city

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of refuge at the journey's end. Without faith, there will

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be no knowledge. But when knowledge is acquired, the work

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of faith is finished. The life triumphant is a life

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of knowledge, and by knowledge is meant not book learning,

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but life learning. Not superficial facts committed to memory, but

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the deep facts and truths of life grasped and comprehended.

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Apart from this knowledge, there is no victory for man,

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no rest for his weary feet, no refuge for his

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aching heart. There is no salvation for the foolish except

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by becoming wise. There is no salvation for the sinful

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except by becoming pure. There is no liberation for man

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from the turmoil and troubles of life, but through divine

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knowledge reached by the pathway of a pure and blameless life.

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Nowhere is their permanent peace except in an enlightened condition

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of mind. And a pure life and an enlightened mind

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are identical. But there is salvation for the foolish because

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wisdom can be acquired. There is salvation for the sinful,

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because purity can be embraced. There is liberation for all

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men from the troubles and turmoil of life, because whosoever

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wills to do so, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned,

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can enter the lowly way of blamelessness, which leads to

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perfect knowledge. And because of this that there is deliverance

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for the captives and victory for the defeated. There is

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rejoicing in the high places, and the universe is glad.

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The man of knowledge, being victorious over himself, is victorious

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over sin, over evil, over all the disharmonies of life.

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Out of the old mind, marred by sin and sorrow,

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he has framed a new mind, glorified by purity and peace.

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He has died out of the old world of evil

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and is reborn in a new world where love and

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faultless law prevail, where evil is not, and he has

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become deathless in immortal good. Anxiety and fear, grief and lamentation,

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disappointment and regret, richedness and remorse. These things have no

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part in the world of the wives. They are the

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shadowy inhabitants of the world of self, and cannot live. Nay,

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they are seen to have no substantiality in the light

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of wisdom. The dark things of life are the dark

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conditions of a mind not yet illumined by the light

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of wisdom. Them they follow self as the shadow of substance.

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Where selfish desires go, there they follow where sin is

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there they are. There is no rest in self, there

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is no light in self, and where the flames of

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turbulent passions and fires of consuming desires or life, the

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cool airs of wisdom and peace are not felt. Safety

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and assurance, happiness and repose, satisfaction and contentment, joy and peace.

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These are the abiding possessions of the wise, earned by

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right of self conquest, the results of the righteousness, the

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wages of a blameless life. The substance of a right

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life is enlightenment, knowledge, and the spirit of knowledge is peace.

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To be victorious over self in all the issues of life,

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To know life as it is in reality and not

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as it appears in the nightmare of self. It is

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to be in peace in all passages, and not to

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be stricken with trouble and grief in the common happenings

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of life. As the scholar is no more troubled by

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incorrect work and lessons imperfectly done, and the painful reproof

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and punishment formerly inflicted by his teachers are left behind forever.

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So the perfected scholar in virtue, the wise man and woman,

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the enlightened doer of righteousness, is no more trouble with

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wrongdoing and followed which are merely the imperfectly accomplished lessons

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of life, and the scourging sorrow and remorse have passed

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away forever. The skilled scholar has no more doubt or

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fear concerning his ability. He has overcome and dispersed the

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ignorance of his intellect. He has attained to learning, and

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he knows that he has attained. And he so knows

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because having undergone innumerable tests in the form of lessons

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and examinations, he has at last proved his skill by

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passing successfully through the severest tests of scholarship. And now

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he no longer fears, but rejoices when severe tests are

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applied to prove his ability. He is capable, confident, and glad.

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Even so, the skilled Doo of right sighteousness is nor

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more troubled with doubt and fear concerning his destiny. He

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has overcome and dispersed the ignorance of his heart. He

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has attained to wisdom, and he knows that he has attained.

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And he so knows because where he formerly failed and

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fell when tested by the wrong conduct of others, he

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now maintains his patience and calmness under the severest tests

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of accusation and reproof. Herein is the glory and victory

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of divine knowledge, that, understanding the nature of deeds, both

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good and bad, the enlightened Doo of good deeds no

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longer suffers through the bad deeds of others. Their actions

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towards him can never cause him pain and sorrow, nor

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rob him of his peace. Having taken refuge in good,

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evil can no more reach him nor harm him. He

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returns good for evil, and overcomes the weakness of evil

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by the power of good The man who is involved

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in bad deeds imagines that the bad deeds of others

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are powerful to do him injury and are fulled with

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grievous harm against him. He is stung with pain and

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overwhelmed with sorrow, not for his own bad deeds, for

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these he does not see, but for the wrong deeds

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of others. Involved in ignorance, he has no spiritual strength,

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no refuge, and no abiding peace. The man victorious over

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self is the true seer. He is not the seer

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of spirits or supernatural phenomena, for such seeing is narrow

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and illusory. He is the seer of life as it is,

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both in his particular aspects and in his divine principles,

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the seer of the spiritual universe, of the cosmic law,

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cosmic love, cosmic liberty. The man of knowledge and victory,

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who has shaken off the painful dreams of self, has

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awakened with a new vision which beholds a new and

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glorified universe. He is the seer of the eternal and

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is blessed with perfect love and endless peace. He is

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lifted far above all sordid desires, narrow aims, and selfish

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love and hate. And being so lifted up, he perceived

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the lawful course of things and does not grieve when

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overtaken by the inevitable. He is above the world of sorrow,

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not because he has become cold and cruel, but because

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he abides in love, where no thought of self can enter,

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and where the well being of others is.

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Speaker 1: All in all. He is sorrowless because he is selfless.

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Speaker 2: He is serene because he knows that whatever he receives

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it is good, and whatever is taken from him, that

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also is good. He has transmitted sorrow into love and

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his fool's infinite tenderness and abounding compassion. His power is

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not violent, ambitious, worldly, but pure, peaceful, heavenly, and he

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is possessed of a hidden strength which knows how to

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stand and when to bend for the good of others

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and the world. He is a teacher, though he speaks

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but little. He is a master, yet he has no

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desire to rule others. He is a conqueror, but makes

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no attempt to subdue his fellow men. He has become

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a conscious instrument for the outworking of cosmic law, and

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is an intelligent, enlightened power directing the evolution of the race.

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At this the beginning of a new epoch. Let the

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good news again go forth throughout the world, that there

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is purity for the sinful, comfort for the afflicted, healing

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for the broken hearted, and triumph for the defeated. In

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your heart, O man o woman, stained as it is

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with sin and torn with conflicting desires, there is a

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place of power, a.

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Speaker 1: Citadel of strength.

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Speaker 2: You are the dwelling place of the supreme Good, and

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the scepter of victory awaits you. Deep in your consciousness

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is the high seat of empire. Arise, o stricken one,

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Ascend to your rightly throne.