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.
for Jesus; for probably the girl had not known him personally before. In the case of Lazarus the difficulty was not so great, because Lazarus had known Jesus, and, in all probability, had great faith in him, which rendered the task of raising him up all the easier. 'Lazarus, come forth,' uttered in a loud voice, sufficed to bring him back to life, in spite of the protestations of his sisters. It is said of Shams Tabrez, the poet and mystic, that he revived the dead child of a king in a similar manner. The procedure adopted by Jesus points unmistakably to the fact that the death of the individual organism, at least in some cases, is merely synonymous with the breach of communications between the central fountain of life and some vital part of the body, and that the work of restoration to life depends upon the restoration of the broken communications. The law of suggestion works here just as effectively as elsewhere, and it is undoubtedly suggestion which is the cause of premature death in many cases. A life-long scepticism of the powers of the soul and a constant fear of death must produce their effect, sooner or later, on the body; so that when some illness, more serious than any other which it has been the patient's lot in life to suffer from, supervenes, he grows suspicious of life and believes that the time for death has come. Add to this the effect to be produced on the mind by the visit of specialists, the whispering of anxious friends and relatives, the solemn and scared looks of attendants, and the enquiries of the family lawyer for the making of a will for the disposal of property, and it can be easily seen how the combined influence of them all, to say nothing of a number of