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THE DEMOLITION OF THE PAST IS A CHAPTER IN THE NATURAL PATH
lx.
lxi. lxii. lxiii.
lxiv. lxv. lxvi.
To exclude from one‘s heart the fear of God and the shame and sadness of one‘s state
In distress to make excuses and to fall back on and encourage the weaknesses.
To decline to help in a struggle for Masters cause.
To pretend to be friends with one‘s
enemy
To cheat in one‘s work To set traps for others
To identify with the world to the extent of forgetting Master
lxvii. To take pleasure in people‘s suffering
lxviii. Not to suffer because of one‘s
mistakes.
These are like thorns growing in a barren field and show us the ugly attributes of the heart which surface and become visible during meditation and prayers. Tradition advises us to avoid them and beautify ourselves with the opposite of every one of these faults, and that is the basis of not only of all ethical codes but also most of the meditational
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