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Sofism

or SUFISM, the mystical and pantheistic doctrines of the Sofis. They consider that God alone exists; that He is in all nature, and that all nature is in Him, the visible universe being an emanation from His essence. God is the real author of the deeds of men, and there is Publishers' Photo Service THE CECIL RHODES MEMORIAL, NEAR CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. THE FIGURE ON HORSEBACK REPRESENTS ENERGY THE CECIL RHODES MEMORIAL, NEAR CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. THE FIGURE Paul Thompson NORVAL'S BRIDGE, WHERE ONE CROSSES FROM CAPE COLONY INTO ORANGE FREE STATE Publishers' Photo Service LION'S HEAD, CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Keystone View Company THE NATIONAL HALL OF CONGRESS, SANTIAGO, CHILE Keystone View Company CATHEDRAL PLAZA IN SANTIAGO, CHILE International Film Service A COCOANUT FESTIVAL HELD BY THE NATIVES OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC SOGNEFJORD therefore no valid distinction between good and evil. The passages in the Koran which speak of a paradise and a hell are only allegorical. Man's soul existed before his body, and will transmigrate when he dies into other bodies till sufficiently purified to be absorbed into the deity.

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