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YOGA.
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If the true purport of the Messianic utterance had been understood by men, the Lord's Supper would have been acknowledged as one of the most potent means of practising holy meditation and strengthening the faith, instead of being relegated to the realm of vain mysticism and fruitless, ceremonial sacrament. It would have reminded men of the real nature of things, each time that they broke their bread, thus confirming their faith and bringing them nearer to the realization of the Kingdom of God.
In order to understand the truth about bread being the flesh and wine the blood of the Lord, we must remember that the entire universe is conceived to exist as the body of Logos, who, in his cosmic aspect, must be thought of in the Universal form, which is said to have been manifested to Arjuna, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra." The following observations of one of the leading English scientists of our own day may be profitably read in this connection :
“It has been surmised,...that just as the corpuscles and atoms of matter, in their intricate movements and relations, combine to form the brain cell of a human being; so the cosmic bodies, the planets and the suns and other groupings of the other, may perhaps combine to form something corresponding, as it were, to the brain cell of some transcendent Mind. The idea is to be found in Newton, The thing is mere guess, it is not an impossibility, and it cannot be excluded from a philosophic system by any negative statement based on scientific fact."-Life and Matter, p. 112.
The idea of an Universal Mind, however, is quite untenable in philosophy, being a pure personification of Life; but the statement loses not a tittle of its merit
* See the Bhagavad Gita, Disc. XI.
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