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385 and Light. It is this Key of Knowledge for the loss of which Jesus upbraided the Doctors of Law : “Woe apto you, lawyers ! for ye have taken away the key
of knowledge : ye entered pot in yourselves, and them
that were entering in ye biodered.” (Luke, zi. 52). It is this very Key of Knowledge that has been reconstructed now and placed in your hands, and I trust you will not suffer it to be lost again.
There is one striking feature about this business of re-construction of the Key of Knowledge : it was lost by Lawyers originally and it is a lawyer who is restoring it now!
I hope I have given you a true picture of the Temple of Unity and Union as it is and as it should be, for I should be sorry to tread upon any one's susceptibilities. We must not, however, allow hysterical sentiment to interfere with scientific work ; and if any one feels aggrieved with my results, I can only assure him of my sincerity of purpose. All further talk is necessarily forbidden by the scientific nature of the research. There is real sweetoess in the reflection that Scientific Truth was known to the whole of the human race at one time in the past, and, certainly was not the exclusive property of the Jainas of to-day. Nay, it is not un-likely that the Jainas of today are the descendants of men that took up the torch only in recent historical times and that have been thwarted by ill-luck from carrying it round the world. Your ancestors, then, are as likely
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