This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...entirely in the senses, in gratification of fleshly or bodily desires? It is this life, this mode of thought, that has brought all the trouble upon the race. Then if we strike the ax of denial at the root of the matter--the cause--the effect will be a change in conditions, proving our correctness of procedure. We shall ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...entirely in the senses, in gratification of fleshly or bodily desires? It is this life, this mode of thought, that has brought all the trouble upon the race. Then if we strike the ax of denial at the root of the matter--the cause--the effect will be a change in conditions, proving our correctness of procedure. We shall thus erase the belief that satisfaction can be found in anything pertaining to flesh. Lustful means "fleshly," so lustful passions are those pertaining to flesh. Have we not been expressly taught that we inherit avarice, greed, envy, hatred, malice, which are all but expressions of selfishness? Has not our interpretation of "the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children," been that we inherit all fleshly appetites and misdemeanors? As this is not true we deny it all, by the words rejecting sensual appetites and lustful passions, in order to erase the belief in all these particulars. There is no other way to be rid of them save by denial. Does denial seem strange? Not when we stop to consider the important part it has had in the teachings of the church and of all great religionists. What is fasting but denial of self, or as it is called, "self-denial"? That this is considered a power has been proved by the church setting apart an appointed time for it and asking for "grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may obey the Godly motions." Self-denial is simply renouncing fleshly gratification and all evil. "Renouncing the flesh and the devil," the church calls it. To deny is only to forbid ourselves the indulgence of any appetite or desire; to give it up. And the more we deny the more we find we can do without. In geometry, an occult line is a line ...
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