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[[File:Agni pariksha.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A scene from the Ramayana: Sīta undergoing the trial by fire watched by Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa and Hanuman (c. 1820)]] | |||
The '''trial by fire''' is another word for the Day of the L<small>ORD</small>’s Judgment. It is the weighing of the soul for Light, for Darkness, accrued. It is the karmic summing up, chapter by chapter of each one’s [[Book of Life]]. Having passed through all of that, the soul will be ready to meet her Lord in his [[Second Coming]]. | The '''trial by fire''' is another word for the Day of the L<small>ORD</small>’s Judgment. It is the weighing of the soul for Light, for Darkness, accrued. It is the karmic summing up, chapter by chapter of each one’s [[Book of Life]]. Having passed through all of that, the soul will be ready to meet her Lord in his [[Second Coming]]. | ||
== Saint Paul on the trial by fire == | == Saint Paul on the trial by fire == | ||
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<blockquote>Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?</blockquote> | <blockquote>Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.<ref>I Cor. 3: | <blockquote>If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.<ref>I Cor. 3:11–17.</ref></blockquote> | ||
== Karma and initiation == | == Karma and initiation == | ||
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== The fiery furnace == | == The fiery furnace == | ||
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In ancient Israel we see the fiery trial of the three Hebrew youths taken into captivity by the Babylonians. The Book of Daniel tells the story that the three youths Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to fall down and worship a pagan image. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar arrested them and cast them into a fiery furnace. | In ancient Israel we see the fiery trial of the three Hebrew youths taken into captivity by the Babylonians. The Book of Daniel tells the story that the three youths Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to fall down and worship a pagan image. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar arrested them and cast them into a fiery furnace. | ||