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 KINGDOM OF GOD.
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but something very different from it. It is in unequivocal terms that Jesus points out the fact that the sex function has no place in the world of resurrection. People ‘rise up'as angels, or sons of the Most High, who are regarded, by one and all, as sexless. How and when the transformation of sexual creatures into sexless angels, or sons of God, takes place, popular theology is unable to answer, and even if it were possible to answer it by calling in aid the power of the Almighty, it would be difficult to find a reason for his making risen bodies of the dead sexless, or for dividing the batch of angels, or sons of God, into those who are to people the heavens and those that are to become the denizens of hell. Is it not clear now that we err greatly concerning our ideas of the true sense of resurrection ? The whole thing becomes perfectly plain if we reject the idea of a universal bodily resurrection on some future day, at the end of the world-cycle. The soul is sexless by nature, but it puts on bodies of gross matter with sex-organs according to its inclinations and tendencies, so that when the male element preponderates, the body evolves out the male sex, and vice versa. Hence, the re-incarnationists believe that the same soul appears in different incarnations with a different sex, sometimes in a male body, sometimes in a female one, and at times also as belonging to the neuter sex. Those, therefore, who are considered worthy to obtain the resurrection of the dead, that is, those who pass out of the cycle of birth and death, become sexless in consequence of the sexlessness of the soul. Resurrection, then, is to be understood in a sense different from that ascribed to it by the orthodox