Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
the questions which the proposition involved, namely, (1) the significance of resurrection, and (2) the possibility of the marital institution in the world of the Sons of God. Taking up the second point first, he declared that marriage was unknown in that region; for those who were considered worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, became, by their own worth, like angels, or sons of God [in whom the sex function was conspicuous by its absence]. Hence, the marital relationship of husband and wife was not possible in those higher regions. The words of Jesus are very significant, for it would appear that the resurrection which he was speaking of was not open to everybody indiscriminately, but was limited to those only who were accounted worthy to obtain it. This is not the popular belief, according to which every one shall be made to rise up on the Judgment Day, irrespective of worth. Hence it is clear that the Messiah did not mean any such thing as a general* rising of the dead,
* The notion of a general rising of the dead on a universal Judgment Day, is also contradicted by the doctrine of works' preached in the famous text:
“And behold there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last" (Luke, XIII. 30).
For if the distribution of rewards is to take place on the one and same day, it is almost tantamount to a misuse of words to talk of the first being the last and the last being the first. The plain sense of the words used is consistent with our explanation alone, and indicates that those of the aspirants who are more assiduous will outstrip, in point of time, many of their less arduous brethren who might have started on the path much earlier than themselves.
Thus, many of those who start last shall be the first, and many who started first the last.