Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
on a large scale, managed by the Lord God where his children can indulge their animal passions to the full, in eating, drinking and, according to some, even in fornication. This is the lowest of the three classes. The second group believes that there is a God, but considers that the Universe cannot be separate from him. It maintains that creation took place in the sense of a projection, but not in the sense in which it is understood in the West, that is, a making of a something real out of nothing. According to this sect, God is himself the Creator as well as the material of which beings and things are made. Accordingly, God, Nature and the individual Soul are the three aspects of the one and the same thing. Here we have the dissolution of personality, i.e., separateness, into the one Absolute Being or Life as the ideal of the soul. This is, obviously, a slightly better form of belief than that of the first class of men ; but all the sameimperfect. The third class consists of those luminous souls who have dared to conceive the truth in its highest aspect. These regard the soul to be its own God and capable of attaining the fullest measure of perfection and bliss. This third form of belief is almost as old as humanity itself, as will be demonstrated later, and has been directly, or indirectly, ruling the hearts of men and swaying their destinies.'
The belief that the soul is its own God, it is claimed, is not only the most ancient, but also the only one which gives us an ideal of Perfection neither unworthy of a rational being nor incompatible with the highest aspiration of the soul. The first man of our times who realized this great ideal in his own life and who taught