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.
and the unmanifest represent merely the two different phases of what in substance is the same thing, that is to say, since the Son only comes out of the 'bosom’ of the Father, like a statue from: oui of rough stone, the Son cannot be said to have been non-existent at any moment in the life of the Father.
The third member of the Holy Trinity is the Spirit of Holiness in a literal sense. As has already been seen, in an earlier chapter, renunciation, that is to say, rigid self-control and self-denial, are necessary to make us whole in which consist our salvation and holiness. The soul imbued with the spirit of vairágya (renunciation), or wbat is the same thing in different words, the fully developed will, is then the third member of the Divine Trinity. When the individual will is developed to perfection in renunciation and self-denial, then is final emancipation obtained, enabling the Soul to enter nirvana as pure radiant Effulgence, perfect and whole and unencumbered with any kind of material bodies. Being whole and perfect in renunciation, it is holy, and as a pure bodiless Spirit, it is a ghost, whence the third member of the Holy Trinity-the Holy Ghost.
Such is the primary conception of the Biblical Trinity, which is not only beautiful as an ingenious mythological metaphor, but is also strictly in accordance with truth. The reason why the real import of the doctrine has been lost sight of by the world at large is probably to be found in the engrafting of an impure concept of inferior value obtained through Greek sources on the original stem. This latter conception is that of the Word which is peculiar to the fourth Gospel.