The Washington herald., 1915-02-21
AND CHRISTIANITY
THE MYSTIC PATH OF HUMAN, PROGRESS FORGIVENESS OF
SINS.

opl " ldHu TIE SpcCulatr the
thought-bogs whence he can only ex-
tricate himself by laundering through
the mire in an opposite direction. A
superhuous eternal hell was balanced
by superfuous forgiveness. and thus
the uneven scales of justice were again
rendered level. Leaving these aberra-
lions OF the unenlightened. let US re-
turn into the realm of fact and right
reason.
When q man has committed an evil
action he has attached himself to
sorrow, for sorrow is ever the plant
that springs from the seed of sin. II
may be said. even more accurately.
that sin and sorrow are but the two
sides Of the one act. not two separate
events. As every object has two sides.
one of which is behind. out of sight.
when the other is in front. in sight. so
every act has two sides. which cannot
both be seen at once in the physical
world.
In other worlds. good and happiness.
evil AMI sorrow. are seen as the two sides
of the same thing. This is what is
called karma-a convenient and now
widely-used term originally Samskrit, OK
pressing this connection or identity. lit
orally meaning .action''-and the suffer
ing is. therefore. called the karmic result
of the wrong. The result, the Other
side may not follow Immediately, may
not even occur during the present in
carnation. but sooner or later II will
appear and clasp the sinner with it's
arms Of pain. Now a result in the physi-
cal world. is the final outcome of
cause set going in the past: 1t is tho
1 ripened fruit: in il a particular force
becomes manifest and eXhausts itself
That force has been working outward.
and its effects are already over in the
mind ere it appears in the body. Its
bodily manifestation. its appearance.
| in the physical world, is the sign of
the completion of its course" This is
| the cause of tn sweetness and patience
often noticed in the sick who are OF
very pure nature. They have learned
the lesson of suffering. and they do
not make fresh karma by Impotence
under the result of past bad karma.
then eNhausting itself. If at such
moment the sinner. having exhausted
the karma of his sin. comes into con-
tact with a Sage who can see the past
and the present. the invisible and the
visible. such a Sage may discern the
ending of the particular karma. and.
the sentence being completed. may de-
clare the captive free. Such an in
stance seems to be given in the story
of the man sick with the palsy, al
| ready alluded TO. case typical of
many. y physical ailment is the last
expression OF past lll-dOing; the
mental and moral outworking is COM
| pleted. and the suffering is brought by
! the agency of some Angel. as an ad-
ministrator of the law-into the pres
ence of One able to relieve physical
| disease by the eXertion OF a higher
energy.
First. the initiate declares that the
mans sins are forgiven. and then justi-
| fes his insight by the authoritative word.
" Kris toll h.I
thine house" Had no such enlightened
One been there, the disease would have
passed away under the restoring touch
| Of nature. under a force applied by tho
| invisible angelic Intclligences, who carry
out in this world the workings of karmic
! law; when a greater One is acting. this
| force is Of more swiftly compelling
power, and the physical vibrations are
at once attuned to the harmony that
| is health. All such forgiveness Of sins may
be termed declaratory; the karma Is ex-
| hauSted, and 4 "knower of karma"
! declares the fact. The assurance brings
| a relief to the mind that Is akin to the
relief experienced by a prisoner when
the order for his release is given that
order being as much a part of the law
| as the original sentence: but the relief
Of the man who thus learns of the ex-
/ haustion of an evil karma is kvener be-
cause he cannot himself tell the term OF
| its action.
| II is noticeable that these declarations
| OF forgiveness are constantly coupled
with the statement that the sufferer
showed faith and that without this
| nothing could De done: l. G., the real agent
| in the ending of this kaTna is the sinner
| himself. In the case of the woman that
| was sinner" the two declarations
are coupled; THY sins are forgiven-Thy
faith hath saved thee: go in peace This
faith breaks through the lower nature
| that holds il mas the water springs
| break through the encumbering earth
| clods-the power thus liberated works on
| the whole nature bringing it into har-
| mony with itself The man only be-
| comes conscious of this as the karmic
| crust of evil is broken up by its force,
| and that glad consciousness of a power
4 within himself hitherto unknown, as
! sorting itself as soon as the evil karma
! is exhausted. is a large factor in the
/ joy. relief. and new strength that fol-
low on the feeling that sin is forgiven"
| that its results are past
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