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and that without this nothing could be done; _i.e._, the real agent in the ending of this karma is the sinner himself. In the case of the
gpt
the two declarations are coupled:
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Thy sins are forgiven.... Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace. [320] This
gpt
is the up-welling in man of his own divine essence, seeking the divine ocean of like essence, and when this breaks through the lower nature that holds it in--as the water-spring breaks through the encumbering earth-clods--the power thus liberated works on the whole nature, bringing it into harmony with itself. The man only becomes conscious of this as the karmic crust of evil is broken up by its force, and that glad consciousness of a power within himself hitherto unknown, asserting itself as soon as the evil karma is exhausted, is a large factor in the joy, relief, and new strength that follow on the feeling that sin is
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pouring from an unknown source. What wonder that a man, bewildered by their downrush--knowing nothing of the mysteries of his own nature, nothing of