The intelligent student of occultism in all its phases will arrive, sooner
or later, at the inevitable conclusion that all illumined souls have seen
and have taught the same fundamental truth.
Buddha was convinced that in The Absolute, or First Cause, there could be
no sin and consequently no sorrow, and he persistently sought to inaugurate
such systems of conduct and such a standard of morals as would lead the
disciple back to godhood, or liberation from the "wheel of causation."
To keep the mind pure and clean was the burden of his cry, well knowing
that the mind is the fertile field wherein illusions of sense consciousness
thrive. He says:
"Mind is the root (of evil); actions proceed from the mind. If anyone speak
or act from a corrupt mind, suffering will follow, as the dust follows the
rolling wheel."
That we can not expect to escape the result of our thoughts and acts was
ever a doctrine of Buddha, albeit, he seems also to have sought to make
clear to his disciples, the UNREALITY of sin as a part of the
indestructible "First Cause.
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