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possibly be terminated by any agency outside its own self. The reason for this is to be found in the fact that no one can possibly control the desires of another, which, being the causes of the fusion of spirit and matter, must continue to produce their effects so long as they exist.
The teaching of Jesus with reference to resurrection, which is the last strovghold of Christian hostility to the theory of transmigration itself leads to no other conclu. sion when studied pbilosophically, Here is the text, in full, which was propounded in answer to a question put by certain Sadducees as to whose wise a certain woman would be in resurrection, she having married, here on this earth, seven brothers in succession, that is one after another, as they died.
"The children of this world warry and are given in marriage; "But they which shall be accoguted worthy to obtain that
world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry,
nor are given in marriage: “Neither can they die any more: for they are equal onto the
angels; and are the children of God, being the children of
the resurrection.”—Luke, xx. 34-35, Here we are distinctly told (i) that resurrection is not open to every body
but only to those who are accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection
from the dead; (ii) that there is no such thing as marriage in
that world'; and
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