17 This is the burden of the message that the harbinger shall bring to men.
18 What is forgiveness? John inquired.
19 Matheno said, It is the paying up of debts. A man who wrongs another man can never be forgiven until he rights the wrong.
20 The Vedas says that none can right the wrong but him who does the wrong.
21 John said, If this be true where is the power to forgive except the power that rests in man himself? Can man forgive himself?
22 Matheno said, The door is wide ajar; you see the way of man’s return to right, and the forgiveness of his sins.
CHAPTER 14.
Matheno’s lessons. The doctrine of universal law. The power of man to choose and to attain. The benefits of antagonisms. Ancient sacred books. The place of John and Jesus in the world’s history.
Matheno and his pupil, John, were talking of the sacred books of olden times, and of the golden precepts they contained, and John exclaimed,
2 These golden precepts are sublime; what need have we of other sacred books?