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versed in the higher metaphysics to understand such a subtle doctrine; and, secondly, they never professed to deal with religion exhaustively.
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
That Jesus accepted the truth of the doctrine of transmigration, is clear from such passages as the following in the Bible :
1. "And if ye will receive it, this [John, the Baptist,] is Elias which was for to come."-Matt. XI. 14.
2. "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven."--John III. 13.
3. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit [i.e., shall be born as kings and rulers of men in, their next incarnation on] the earth."-Matt. V. 5.
These passages are capable of sound sense only on the hypothesis of transmigration. In John, III. 12 is given the reason why Jesus withheld certain higher teachings of religion from his congregations. He is said to have declared:
"If I have told you of earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things".
This one quotation suffices to show that the New Testament was never intended to be a complete code of religion by itself, and the present work is a demonstration of the fact that neither the Holy Bible, nor the Qur'an, nor the scriptures of any other religion outside India can, in any sense, be treated as complete and exhaustive in themselves. Even the Vedas are so much involved in mysticism and unintelligibility of devotional poetry that, taken by themselves, they can only mislead one in the first instance. The inference to be drawn
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