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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
more, they shall not wake, nor be raised out of their sleep.” The following is equally emphatic :
“ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again."
This distinctly refers to the bodily personality which cannot be made whole again. No need to multiply references; our analysis of the resurrection text suffices to explain all such passages in all the existing religions of the world.
How hard it is for Materialism to understand the truth of some of these sayings needs no comment; nor were the disciples of Jesus, with a few honourable exceptions, any the better in this respect. John records that immediately after the parable of the heavenly bread, culminating in the most inysterious utterance : “He that eateth me, even he shall live by me" (John, VI. 5), many left his following, when Jesus enlightened them a bit, saying: “Does this offend you? It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing : the words that I speak unto you they are spirit, and they are life.” (John, VI. 6.) It is easy to understand this “hard” saying if we recollect that the word 'me' in the text “he that eateth me” has no reference to Jesus, but to Life itself.
But some one might ask : how are we to eat Life? The reply is : just in the same way as we devour knowledge. We can eat' Life by entering' into it, in other words, by feeling its pulsation within us, or by abandoning ourselves to enjoy its soul-enrapturing rhythm. If any one finds it difficult to understand it even now, he
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