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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
of the nature of the perceptible world, and can lay no claim to a scientific grounding or origin.
Mythology and mysticism might, no doubt, possess the information we desire to obtain, but it seems safer to keep them at a respectable distance than to run the risk of being lost in their labyrinthine mazes.
We thus see that it is only an inkling of the truth that we have been able to get thus far, and that if we wish to satisfy our understanding on all those important problems which constitute true jnana--and jnana is, the pre-requisite of moksha--we must turn to some other source able to satisfy the enguiring soul.
The foregoing treatment of the subject in hand and the explanation of the various mythological doctrines of different religions, from the standpoint of philosophy and metaphysics, have, it is to be hoped, prepared the ground for the reception of the doctrines of Truth which will be dealt with in the next and the succeeding chapters.
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