Jainism Christianity and Science

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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EVERY SOUL IS ITS OWN GOD
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And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power."-Colossians ii. 9-10.
" And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God."-Ephesians iii.
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"... The creature should ... ascend to Him, passing beyond the angels, and be made after the image and likeness of God ..."(Irenaeus) A.N.C.L. vol. ix. p. 167.
"... If therefore man has become immortal he will also be God .. Wherefore I preach to this effect : Come, all ye kindreds of the nations to the immortality of the baptism."—(Hippolytus) A.N.C. L. vol. 18. pt. ii. p. 86.
"For once the crown of righteousness encircles thy brow, thou bast become God . . . Thou hast been deified and begotten unto immortality . . . This constitutes 'Know thyself,' or, in other words, learn to discover God within thyself."-(Hippolytus) A.N.O.L. vol. vi. p. 402.
As for the scientific aspect of the question, very little need be said on the subject, as the idea of a creator is inadmissible in a scientific study of things and the soul is proved to be its own God. These conclusions are startling and staggering, no doubt, to those who have not studied the subject properly. But the knowers of the Truth have really known these things all along. We have it in the Syriac Documents (Prophetic Scriptures) :
"I know that the mysteries of Science (Gnosis] are a laughingstock to many ... and a few are at first startled at them, 88 the light 18 suddenly brought into a convivial party in the dark." A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 128.
Pure materialism has ever failed, for this reason, to appeal to those who are the knowers of Truth, though very many of them have not been able to perceive the doctrine clearly enough: witness the scathing