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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would every one, who would but crucify the beast in him, attain to immortality. The western nations have found the teaching of Jesus difficult to understand, because they had only his solitary example before them; but in the East there have been hundreds of thousands of men who have risen to Godhood. The twenty-four Tîrthamkaras of the Jainas had set the example before the nations of the East centuries before the advent of Jesus, and had succeeded in acquiring the perfection of Gods by neglecting, mortifying, and, finally, by totally destroying their lower nature. Even now-a-days, there are men who are trying to live on this principle. This is the only way to rise above death, sickness and sorrow.
RESURRECTION.
So far as resurrection is concerned, the ground has now been prepared, by the facts and conclusions already established and drawn, for a proper understanding of what took place after the crucifixion of Jesus. Only a few other incidents are required to fill in the remaining details of the scene at Calvary. Among these, the first to be noticed is that Jesus was crucified at the sixth hour and was dead by the ninth. This was so strange and unexpected that Pilate marvelled if Jesus were already dead (Mark, XV. 44). Usually death by crucifixion is a slow, lingering process. The Westminster Bible Dictionary (page 147) has the following comment on the subject:
"Death pains thus inflicted were not only excruciating, but lingering, the unhappy person often surviving for several days."
Even the malefactors, if we believe them to have been crucified with Jesus, were found alive and had to be killed by a further breaking of their legs, in ac
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