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GIFTS OF GOD 

These are higher powers and faculties bestowed on the soul when the soul is prepared to receive them. Causation is of the higher nature only. Phenomena are effects.

"For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God: not of works, that no man should glory." - EPH. ii. 8, 9.

It is through the action of the higher nature that the qualities progress towards perfection in response to the aspiration and faith of the lower. The lower nature of itself cannot progress. The activities of the lower mind are ineffectual without the aid of the Spirit of Truth.

“Consciousness of spiritual powerlessness, with its sequent dissatisfaction and struggle, when it results in renewed inspiration, insight, and moral correspondence to the Divine Ideal, which the psychology of religious experience observes is its own witness to the belief that the religious progress of the individual, and of the race, takes place by the gift and power of God. Thus experience creates the impression that the real cause of man's religious progress is to be found in the truth of the belief that God is making man more and more into the likeness of the Divine." - G. T. LADD, Phil. Of Religion, Vol. I. p. 357.  

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ATONEMEnt
Devayana
Grace
IMAGE
MEDICINE
MICROCOSM