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.
" When God said, O Jesus, verily I will cause thee to die, and I will take thee up unto me, and I will deliver thee from the unbelievers," -- and the one in Sura Nisa which reads--
“Yet they slew him (Jesus] not, neither crucified him, but he was represented by one in his likeness." are capable of sound sense only if we read them in the light of the above observation. In this sense, not only do they become intelligible, but also avoid the misunderstanding which has arisen between the followers of Christianity and Islam. The Essence of Life, the Soul, is immortal and undying; hence, it can neither be killed, nor crucified. It is only the body, the objectification of will, as Schopenhauer calls it, hence the likeness of the Essence," the Barabbas of the gospel-writers, that can be killed and crucified. The likeness between Life, or Spirit, or Will and the body is also insisted upon in the first chapter of the book of Genesis, the 21st verse of which reads :
s God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him."
When people do not take the trouble to understand each other, they indulge in mutual recrimination, of which the following expression of opinion by Dods, quoted in “Selections from the Koran " (page 132), is a fair sample :
" His Muhammad's] knowledge of Christianity was so meagre and confused, that it is difficult to understand how even the most illite
* Muslim philosophers have always insisted upon the physical body being in the likeness of the soul. The following from the
Kimiya-i-Saadut,' quoted in The Philosophy of Islam,' may by cited in proof of our statement :
"Verily, the creation of spirits is by God. Their forms are like the forms of their bodies."