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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 21 EMBLEMS OF SOUL WORK. Subject: Soul Abchitectube. Bailding np yourselves. ? Jade 23 CHE true soul work of man is frequently represented under architectural imagery. Sometimes God is spoken of as the Builder. Ye are God's building, Ac. When He is builder then souls are represented as lively stones, His house, His temple. In other places the building work is represented as man's. Then he is urged, to build up himself in his most holy faith. The truth is that in all the true work of the soul we are labourers together with God. He is the primary agent in all the virtuous activities of humanity. He imparts the motive. He gives the rule. He bestows the strength for all holy work. Albeit his agency in no way supersedes the necessity or annuls the obligation of human effort. All souls are architects. Man is a constructive creature, some are building scientific systems, some mercantile schemes, some social or political institutions; all are builders. But what are all building? Character. Markets, governments, palaces, cathedrals, are nothing to this. This is the only real property man has. All else belongs to another. God claims not only our worldly possessions, but our very being. All souls are his. Bnt He claims not our character ? No. If a man's character is good, He gives him the credit; if bad, He lays the sole blame on him, and leaves him to suffer the just retribution. Character determines his worth in the universe. In the eye of God and the myriads of His holy ones, man is estimated not according to his worldly wealth, social status, genius or mental attainments, but according to his character. If holy, though a pauper on earth, he is a peer in the spiritual domain. If depraved, thougha prince on earth, he is to all holy intelligences a pauper poor, mi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217350457 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217350453 |
| Weight | 0.98 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 300 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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