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earth. So, all knowledge, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered; and when the covering is being slowly taken off we say “we are learning," and all advance of knowledge is produced by the advance of this process of discovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the knowing man; the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant, and the man from whom it has entirely gone is all-knowing, omniscient. There have been omniscient men, and, I believe, will be yet; there will be myriads of them in the cycles to come. Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge is existing in the mind; the suggestion is the friction that brings out that fire. So with all our feelings and actions-four tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and blames-every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows dealt: The result is what we are; all these blows taken
