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