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long as reason exists. The veil of the temple that is destroyed is the veil of matter in the temple of the body behind which is hidden the divinity of Life; and the graveyard is the cemetery of memory, in which lie buried the recollections of the past. It means the recovery of the knowledge of the past lives of the soul in the fulness of omniscience.
Resurrection means the rising from the dead; and the dead stand for those who are spiritually dead (unenlightened) though they may be alive physically, as will be evident from the statement " Leave the dead to bury their dead.” Resurrection means the going up of the Perfected Soul to the Sacred Abode of Gods. Thus understood, the doctrine of Christianity is really the doctrine of salvation, imparted in a secret manner. We have it from Clement:
"... Abandon the alien possessions that are in thy soul, that, becoming pure in heart, thou mayest see God; which is another way of saying, enter into the kingdom of heaven."-A.N.C.L. vol. xxii. p. 199.
With regard to geographical allegories, Tertullian 'tells us :
"He designated idolatry under the name of Samaria, as that city was shameful for its idolatry, through which it had then revolted from God from the days of king Jeroboam. Nor is this an unusual manner for the Creator (in His Scriptures] to figuratively employ names of places as a metaphor derived from the analogy of their sing. Thus He calls the chief men of the Jews 'rulers of Sodom,' and the nation itself people of Gomorrha.' And in another passage He also says : Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hituite,' by reason of their kindred iniquity [to the sins of these nations]; although He had actually called them His song : 'I have nourished and brought up children' So likewise by Egypt is some
