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RITUAL (11) "Ye slew a man and contended among your
selves concerning him' (whether it was not all
a delusion, the man and the deed?). (12) The dead is striken with part of the victim's
body, (13) He is raised to life by God, (14) This is a sign.
(15) Peradventure ye may understand !
I think it is impossible for language to be more pointed than it is here. The purport is plain; let him who has ears to hear and eyes to see perceive the truth. The cow that is neither old nor young, that is not broken to plough the earth or water the filed, that is sound, without a blemish, of an intensely red colour and the delight of the beluider is the nass that is rooted in the bâhirâtman, composed of the intensely red blood and the fiesh made from it. Ils colour is the delight of the beholder, because no colour can rejoice a beholder more than the glowing animation of life in living flesh. This idea is so well expressed in Chinese mysticism that I shall merely content myself by quoting from it (SBE. yol, xxxix. p. 230) : *Kung-ni said 'Once when I was sent on a mission to Khu, I
saw some pige sucking at their dead mother. After a little they looked with rapid glances, when they all left her, and ran away. They felt that she did not see them, and that she was no longer like themselves. What they had loved in their mother was not her bodily figure, bat what had given animation to her figure." ..
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