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THE JAINA GAZETTE
VOL. XXVI MADRAS: S WHOLE No. 35 MARCH, 1929. NO. 285
Further Elucidations from the Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament. COME light has been thrown on Jewish allegories already u in some of my works (the Key of Knowledge, the Confluence of Opposites, etc.) I shall now pursue the line of elucidating thought in the same region still further. The observations here made are to be treated as an addition to the above-named works, and are intended to be incorporated, in their appropriate places, in them, in their next editions, whenever they pass through the press again.
It is said, with reference to the Jewish law-giver that two Moses were seen, "one alive in the spirit, the other dead in the body." The explanation of the mystery is furnished by the Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament (see the Fragments : 'Seth '): “Wherein of course this is indicated that if thou look at the bare lottor of the law, empty of all the things that we have mentioned, that is Moses dead in the body; but if thou canst take away the veil of the law, and understand that the law is spiritual, that is Moses who liveth in the spririt."
The relation between spirit and matter has been beautifully allegorized in the following fable :
"A certain king had all the men in his kingdom enrollo ed in the army and had no 'pagan' ('civilian' we should say), but two only, one lame and one blind, and each abode
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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