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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: additions or increments to become possessed of infinite wealth,
but it is the endeavor, by the constant exercise of spiritual
activity, to appropriate that infinite inheritance of which we
are already in possession. The whole future of the religious
life is given in its beginning, but it is given implicitly. The
position of the man who has entered on the religious life is that
evil, error, imperfection, do not really belong to him: they are
excrescences which have no organic relation to his true nature:
they are already virtually, as they will be actually, suppressed
and annulled, and in the very process of being annulled they
become the means of spiritual progress. Though he is not exempt
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