[319] This is the cause of the sweetness and patience often noticed in the sick who are of very pure nature. They have learned the lesson of suffering, and they do not make fresh evil karma by impatience under the result of past bad karma, then exhausting itself. [320] S. Luke, vii. 48, 50. [321] _Loc. cit._, ix. 31. [322] S. Matt. vii. 1. [323] _Loc. cit._, bk. ii. § 305. [324] Rev. iii. 20. [325] G. Bruno, trans. by L. Williams. _The Heroic Enthusiasts_, vol. i., p. 133. [326] _Ibid._, vol. ii., pp. 27, 28. [327] _Ibid._, pp. 102, 103. [328] Rev. iv. 5. [329] The phrase "force and matter" is used as it is so well-known in science. But force is one of the properties of matter, the one mentioned as Motion. See _Ante_, p. 264. [330] Job xxxviii. 7. [331] See on forms created by musical notes any scientific book on Sound, and also Mrs. Watts-Hughes' illustrated book on _Voice Figures_. [332] See _ante_, p. 138 and p. 302. [333] In the Sacrament of Penance the ashes are now usually omitted, except on special occasions, but none the less they form part of the rite. [334] See _ante_ p. 329. [335] _Christian Records_, p. 129. [336] _The Great Law_, pp. 161-166. [337] See _ante_, p. 151. [338] _Diegesis_, p. 219. [339] 1 Pet. iii. 4. [340] 2 Kings vi. 17. [341] 1 Cor. x. 16. [342] Jer. xliv. [343] Gen. xiv. 18, 19. [344] _The Great Law_, pp. 177-181, 185. [345] Lev. xvii. 11. [346] Rom. xii. 1. [347] Isaiah liv. 5; lxii. 5. [348] Eph. v. 23-32. [349] Athanasian Creed. [350] 2 Pet. i. 20. [351] 1 See _ante_, p. 102. [352] 2 Cor. iii. 6. [353] 1 Cor. ii. 11, 13. [354] Is. vi. 6, 7. [355] S. John v. 4. * * * * * WILLIAM BYLES & SONS, PRINTERS, BRADFORD. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries, by Annie Besant