122 REV. G. U. POPE, D.D., ON 



Soul iliaa been placed in circumstances where their whole effect and 

 deserts have been brought out and experienced. 



The whole effect of any deed is slowly evolved and matured, and the 

 Soul must encounter, from aeon to seon, these m}'sterious powers which 

 constitute its destiny, in all their developments and in their fullest 

 maturity. 



(4) And now, in the fulness of the time, as the fourth step, there comes 

 a ' balancing of deeds,' The notion of this seems to be that there is a 

 point in time when the sins and merits that cling to the Soul and ai'e its 

 fate, become equal, and balance one another, or are made equal by the 

 grace of the Supreme. There are now gathered into one the three kinds 

 of deeds, the eternal accumulation of fate, the assignnient for expiation 

 during the j) resent birth, and those which will yet accrue before the 

 consummation is gained. These threefold deeds are at once cancelled ; and, 

 freed from them, the Soul enters upon its last stage of embodied existence. 



(See Pope's Naladiyar, Chapter XI, pp. 66- 69, KARMxMA.) 



(5) The energy of (^atti, which is commonly called ' the veiling ' energy 

 ( Tirotham)^ is pow changed into a gracious energy of enlightenment and 

 repose from physical perturbations ; this is called (^iva-^atti-uipatham, or 

 cessation of (^iva's ' veiling ' energy. (See Note XIII on Catti.) 



(6) And now the Soul passes into another human form, of the purest 

 and most orthodox Caiva lineage, and is in the third and pure state. Its 

 course and discipline therein must be considered in another place. 



NOTE VI. 



CiTHAMBARAM : ITS LeGRNDS, AND THE MySTIC DaXCE OF CiVA. 



The 'Temple Legend.' — Among all the sacred places held in rever- 

 ence by the (^aivites, there is none that can vie with ^"ithambaram 

 (Chellumbram). Its legends are published in what is entitled The Koyil 

 Purdnam, where ' KOyil ' (meaning temple in general) is used par 

 excellence of Cithambaram. 



Umapati. — This Puranam is attributed to Umapati, ^iva9ariyar, the 

 author of many great treatises (before mentioned in these Notes, II.-IV.), 

 and whose date is one of the few of [which we seem to have some certain 

 knowledge. In his statement and refutation of heresies, the date 1313 

 is given. He was the last of the ^aiva schoolmen, whose period is the 

 thirteenth century, contemporai'ies of the great mediaeval Christian 



