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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
254 of his honest thoughts and acts; he also brings upon himself
255 the sufferings which his vices produce. The dishonest man
256 likewise garners his own suffering and happiness.
257 It is pleasing to human vanity to believe that one suffers
258 because of one's virtue; but not until a man has extirpated
259 every sickly, bitter, and impure thought from his mind, and
260 washed every sinful stain from his soul, can he be in a
261 position to know and declare that his sufferings are the result
262 of his good, and not of his bad qualities; and on the way to
263 that supreme perfection, he will have found working in his
264 mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and
265 which cannot give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of
266 such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his
267 past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was,
268 justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and
269 bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet
270 unevolved self.
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