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"While possessing physical life, he should lay hold of the life spiritual, and together with bodily comforts and happiness, he should enjoy divine pleasures and content. Then is man worthy of the title man; then will he be 'after the image and likeness of God,' for the image of the Merciful consists of the attributes of the heavenly kingdom." (Pup 329) (36:7) "O Son of Spirit! Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created... Thou art even as a finely tempered sword concealed in the darkness of its sheath and its value hidden... Wherefore come forth from the sheath of self." (Hwa 9; Hwp 47)
(36:8)
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