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 KINGDOM OF GOD.
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ignorance ; for, while they could judge of the body, where it came from and whither it went, they had no knowledge of the cosmology of Life,' as he had. He cited the Father, i.e., the real Man, as a witness in his support, meaning thereby that they would acknowledge his miracles as indicating the perfection and divinity of the soul ; but the Pharisees again failed to understand this, and enquired of him, “Where is thy Father?” But they could only be told in reply,
“ If ye had known me [i.e., the real man in me), ye would have known my father also."
'It is always the case with those who do not exert themselves in the investigation of truth that they evince a tendency not only for misunderstanding others, but, also, for endeavouring to conceal their own ignorance by a perversion of sense. The assertion of Jesus need not have been an occasion for misunderstanding, for he did not claim for himself any superiority over others when he said 'I am the light of the World.' In answer to an anticipated smile of incredulity on the face of some of our readers, we need only refer to the Sermon on the Mount wherein the same Jesus said to his congregation in unmistakeable terms :“Ye are the light of the World."
The difference between Jesus and Christ explains the rest. When man removes the bushel from the ‘lamp' of life and allows his inner light to shine forth in the world, so that the works of the Father within are seen by men, he becomes a Christ, and realizes the force of the observation, “I and my Father are one.” “ Ye are the salt of the earth,” does not apply to the body of flesh, for that is of earth, earthy, but to the indwell