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Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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REW ARDB AND PUNISHMENTS.<br />

RT W. P. PYLE.<br />

Aud ahall not he rend~red unto ev•ry man RCcordiug to hia wnrk11? Prov. XXIV. 12.<br />

Every religious system which recognizes a universal mling<br />

power must accept the idea of rewards for obeclience and punishment<br />

for disobedience, which that power will, in one way<br />

or another, visit upon men.<br />

Since both reward~ and pnnishnu•nts are simply the rl'sult of<br />

the judgments of the R.uling Power, we mn11t infer that the<br />

only difference between the two is, tlmt one is the result of his<br />

(God's) approval and tbe other of hiR cliRpiE'a!olm-e. Those<br />

whose conception of GOtl is that of an arbitrary Being a.lministering<br />

punishments and showing favur.-1 acc~ording- t.o ~lunents which will<br />

follow certain acts; but there is gOOtl reason to believe that in<br />

all ages a few ma.

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