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In the 24th volume of the series referred to it is said again:
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"Beloved', says he, 'now are we the sons of God', not by
natural affection, but because we have God as our father. For it is the greater love that, seeing we have no relationship to God, He nevertheless loves us and calls us His sons."-p. 151.
Finally, it is Arnobius who, writing in the 19th volume of the series (see pages 112, 113 and 115), clinches the matter in the most forcible of styles. He writes:
"But let this impious and monstrous fancy be put far from us that Almighty God. ..... should be believed to have begotten souls so fickle, with no seriousness, firmness and steadiness, prone to vice, inclining to all kinds of sins, and... to have bid them enter into bodies, imprisoned in which they should live exposed to the storms and tempests of fortune every day "These things are unworthy of him, and weaken the force of his greatness; and so far from being believed to be their author, whoever imagines that man is sprung from Him is guilty of blasphemous impiety.".
To me it has seemed that Christianity and other religions which to-day find science ranged against them on the point of creation and world management would be well advised if they would re-study the scriptural text, with an open mind, once more, in the light of the scientific fact...
As the student of comparative Religion is aware, the scriptures of the world are composed in allegorical script, and there is, in them, an undercurrent of rationalized thought which is known in different religions by different names. You have the Kabbala in Judaism, Gnosis in Christianity, Sufi-ism in Islam, the Upanishads in Hinduism and the alankara or allegorical teaching of the text. Now, mark the
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