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10. "Why parts of it were veiled in allegories we scarcely dare to ask, and may only suppose that the knowledge was withheld for a good and wise cause."-Ibid. 21.
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11. "... Most parts of the Koran have a hidden, inner or spiritual significance, called by them Ma'anae Batenee."— Ibid. 106.
12. They must not divulge the secrets to their family (wives and children) nor to anyone who is not the seeker of the truth (Talib Sadik) and ask for assistance in attaining to the path of God (Hakk). In that case violence must not be used towards him who does divulge them to another in the view of engaging him to join the order . . . ". Ibid. 183.
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13. "The Koran without the interpretation was only an a ssembly of words void of sense..."-Ibid. 336.
14. The historical and biographical portions of these books (scriptures) may even comprise errors, omissions, and exaggerations, and even may have been more or less changed from time to time by copyists; whilst that which is purely spiritual and essential to the soul of man commenced with his creation, has always existed unchanged, and will so continue to the end of time."Ibid. 106.
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LAST WORD.
The results to be attained by a scientific study of Religion and Comparative Religion are great. I may be pardoned if I place them at a height which has not even thus far been regarded as possible of attainment. This is the level at which prevail lasting harmony, enduring goodwill, unbreakable peace, where reconciliation itself, shorn of all ugly memories of the past, merges into the warmth of affection and fraternal regard that is to endure for ever and evermore. Here all differences are melted away into nothing, and men wonder at their former short-sightedness, that is now, happily, a thing of the past. Individually, also, converging testimony from what used to be regarded as hostile encampments will ever tend, more and more, to strengthen faith in the divinity of the Self,
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