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all that is happening in the present and all that is to happen in the future, though at all other times it is a calamity pure and simple. The rending of the veil of the temple is also an allegorical description. The veil that is rent is not of a man-made temple of brick and mortar, but of the temple of the soul. It is the bushel over the inner light that is removed, revealing the true divinity, and not the destruction of a temple or of a part of a temple of masonry or stone. Inner illu
zaniziri) is the) روشن ضمیری mination
1oslua
immediate result of the destruction of this
internal veil. (iv) But the most beautiful metaphor of all em
ployed in this connection is the opening out of the graves. What is meant is, of course, not the graveyard in a cemetery, where dead bodies lie buried, nor the appearance in public of the rotting carcases of the dead thrown out by some sort of a volcanic force ; but the cemetery of human memory where lie the events, sensations and impressions of the past, as is buried underground. The allegory is indicative of the recovery of the memories of the past lives of the soul that is obtained
as the fruit of advanced asceticism. Iu vain shall we be told that transmigration is not a fundamentaltenet of Christianity and that the tea.
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