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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RESURRECTION.
When Peter drew out his sword to resist the arrest,
Jesus rebuked him, saying,
"Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? but how then will the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be ?"
He all along felt that the 'Father' within was powerful enough to protect him from all harm; accordingly,
he said to his assailants :
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"When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of dark
ness,"
The only time when he showed signs of fear was when he set out to prepare himself for the trial. Then alone did his indomitable courage seem to give way for a moment; but it was not anything more than a mere passing exhibition of the inborn, human weakness, so natural in the stoutest heart, at the possibility of death and extinction in the impending ordeal? Is it any wonder that Jesus should retire into solitude, to look over the events of the past three years of his career, as the teacher of the race? In the undisturbed solitude of the place of Gethsemane, he looked back, through the vista of time, to the solitary couple of typical humanity, and, in his mind's eye, saw them walking in the company of the Father, and beheld their happiness unmarred by any of the incidents common to humanity in his own day. The vision of paradise lay stretched before him. The garden of Eden, with all its beautiful, soulenrapturing scenery, lay pictured before his mental gaze, with the figures of Adam and Eve standing out, in bold relief, in the foreground, the former with a countenance radiating, in manhood's glory, like noonday