[319] This is the cause of the sweetness and patience often noticed in the sick who are of very pure nature. They have learned the lesson of suffering, and they do not make fresh evil karma by impatience under the result of past bad karma, then exhausting itself.

[320] S. Luke, vii. 48, 50.

[321] Loc. cit., ix. 31.

[322] S. Matt. vii. 1.

[323] Loc. cit., bk. ii. § 305.

[324] Rev. iii. 20.

[325] G. Bruno, trans. by L. Williams. The Heroic Enthusiasts, vol. i., p. 133.

[326] Ibid., vol. ii., pp. 27, 28.

[327] Ibid., pp. 102, 103.

[328] Rev. iv. 5.