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from prolific change and precluded therefore from every other form and 

 effect of intellect, but that spiritual saving knowledge."* 



" Yet soul remains awhile invested with body ; as the potter's wheel con- 

 tinues whirling, after the pot has been fashioned, by force of the impulse 

 previously given to it. When separation of the informed soul from its cor- 

 poreal frame at length takes place, and nature in respect of it ceases, then 

 is absolute and final deliverance accomplished." + 



" Thus," concludes the Cciricd, " this abstruse knowledge, adapted to the 

 liberation of soul, wherein the origin, duration, and termination of beings 

 are considered, has been thoroughly expounded by the mighty saint. The 

 sage compassionately taught it to AsuRi, who communicated it Panchasic'ha ; 

 and by him it was promulgated to mankind."! 



* Car. 65. f Cur. 67, 68. t Cdr. 69, 70. 



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