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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stimulate the thinking faculty of his hearers, and lead them to meditate upon the true philosophy of the utterance. If mankind would only think of it when breaking their bread and tasting wine, they would find that the effort to understand the truth of the doctrine would tend to bring them nearer to the Kingdom of God, by deeply impressing upon their minds the illusory nature of the objects of the senses. It would give them a correct idea of God which is the only means of salvation, for, in the words of Swedenborg
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"On the knowledge and the acknowledgment of God, depends the salvation of every one; for the universal heaven, and the universal church on earth, and, in general, all religion, has its foundation in a just idea of God; because hereby there is conjunction, and by conjunction, light, wisdom and eternal happiness."
The repugnance is felt only when the body is taken to be the man, and not the Atman. The hearers of Jesus thought that the speaker was none other than the physical man, standing, in flesh and blood, before them, and fell into error on that account. The real speaker, however, is that subtle, invisible power or substance which is variously styled, Life, Soul, Atman, and the like.
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The same it was who uttered, 'This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me" (Luke, XXII. 19.) The mouth employed to give utterance to the idea, no doubt, happened to be that of Jesus, but the Speaker was not he, but Life, personified as the Cosmic Self, or the Over Soul.
Another important means of strengthening faith is
*The Apocalypse Revealed, n. 469 (quoted in Barret's New Dispensation, p. 118).