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consider a man who acted in such a manner a monster of
cruelty.
How much more logical to think that there may be
another explanation. To impute to God conduct which, in a
human being, we would denounce in the strongest terms, is
surely unreasonable.
Christ differentiates between the physically blind body
of the man and the God within, which is the Higher Self.
The dense body has committed no sin. The God within
has done some deed which manifests in the particular
affliction from which he is suffering. It is not stretching a
point to call a man a God. Paul says, “know ye not that ye
are Gods? and he r efers to the hu ma n b ody as the “temp le of
God,” the indwelling spirit.
Finally, although most people do not remember their
past lives, there are some who do, and all may know if they
will live the life necessary to attain the knowledge. This
requires great strength of character, because such knowledge
will carry with it a knowledge of impending fate that may be
hanging black and sinister over one, which will manifest in
dire disaster. Nature has graciously hidden the past and the
future from us, that we may not be robbed of peace of mind
by suffering in anticipation of the pain in stor e for us. As we
attain greater development we shall learn to welcome all
things with equanimity, seeing in all troubles the result of
past evil and feeling thankful that the obligations incurred
thereby are being annulled, knowing that so much less
stands between us and the day of liberation from the wheel
of birth and death.
When a person dies in childhood in one life, he or she
not infrequently remembers that life in the next body,
because children under 14 years do not journey around the