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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It is considered a virtue amongst civilized races to display a manly spirit of resignation in the closing moments of life, and a manifestation of old-womanish horror of death is looked upon as a sign of pagan barbarism. Why, then, did Jesus forget himself so far?
In endeavouring to find an answer to these questions, we must begin by frankly recognising the irrepressible fact that our ideas about the personality of Jesus are hopelessly wrong and the sole cause of our errors. There can be no such thing as a Son of God, to begin with. In order that there should be a son, there must be a wife first. But the God of the Christian Church cannot have a son, for he has no wife.
All these difficulties vanish from our path when we reject unreasonable dogmas, and look at things from a rational point of view, for then the conduct which bas been seen to be inconsistent with the dignity of the Son of God b: comes quite appropriate for Jesus.
The early life of Jesus has shown us that he was a man of more than ordinary learning, well versed in the knowledge of the different religious systems of the world, and acquainted and familiar with the most secret truths and occult doctrines which have mostly become lost to mankind in this age. He not only possessed a sound theoretical knowledge of the various religions, but had probably also acquired great practical experience, and had developed his occult, psychic forces to a degree which made him almost a superhuman being, far above the level of the average humanity of his day.
He selected the people of Israel for his mission for two reasons : firstly, because the land of the patriarchs
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