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.
tain preliminary and important matters in the next two chapters.
Before closing this chapter, however, we should like to point out that many of the passages touching the life of Jesus which have been rejected by us, from the point of view of the bistorian and the biographer, contain important lessons of high mystical value, when read in the light of occultism. In most cases, the true import of psychical powers and spiritual functions has been cleverly concealed, under suggestive names, by the gospel writers. Such, for instance, is the story of the two thieves who are said to have been crucified with Jesus. They apparently represent the two currents, Ida and Pingala, of the vital 'breath,' which passes through the two chains of the sympathetie ganglia, in which is preserved the residue of the bodily tendencies, that is, the essence of the passions, emotions and thoughts of the individual. For this reason, they have also been personified as the angels who write and keep up to date the karmic ledger of the soul. These are also the two angels, who, according to Al Koran, are deputed to take an account of a man's behaviour, "one sitting on the right hand, and the other on the left : he uttereth not a word, but there is with him a watcher, ready to notet it” (Chapter L.). These two currents of the vital force are called thieves, because, being forms of breath, they are constantly engaged in robbing us of our 'life-breaths,' which, according to the popular view in the East, are predetermined and numbered for each individual in advance. They have to be subdued, that is to say, to be brought under the