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[229] Is. liii. 11.
[230] S. Matt. xvi. 25.
[231] S. John xii. 25.
[232] Heb. vii. 16.
[233] Light on the Path, § 8.
[234] Heb. vii. 25.
[235] Heb. v. 8, 9.
[236] I Tim. iii. 16.
[237] Annie Besant. Theosophical Review, Dec., 1898, pp. 344, 345.
[238] C. W. Leadbeater. The Christian Creed, pp. 61, 62.
[239] I Cor. xv. 44.
[240] I Thess. v. 23.
[241] See Chapter IX., "The Trinity."
[242] See Ante, pp. 84, 99, 100.
[243] 2 Cor. xii. 2, 4.
[244] S. Matt. v. 48.
[245] S. John xvii. 22, 23.
[246] 2 Cor. v. 1.
[247] 1 Cor. xv. 28.
[248] This mistranslation was a very natural one, as the translation was made in the seventeenth century, and all idea of the pre-existence of the soul and of its evolution had long faded out of Christendom, save in the teachings of a few sects regarded as heretical and persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church.
[249] S. John iii. 13.
[250] Heb. v. 9.
[251] Rev. i. 18.
[252] H. P. Blavatsky. The Voice of the Silence, p. 90, 5th Edition.
[253] S. John. xvii. 5.
[254] 1 Cor. xv. 20.
[255] Chhândogyopaniṣhat, VI. ii., 1.
[256] Deut. vi. 4.
[257] 1 Cor. viii. 6.
[258] An error: En, or Ain, Soph is not one of the Trinity, but the One Existence, manifested in the Three; nor is Kadmon, or Adam Kadmon, one Sephira, but their totality.
[259] Quoted in Williamson's The Great Law, pp. 201, 202.
[260] H. H. Milman. The History of Christianity, 1867, pp. 70-72.
[261] Asiatic Researches, i. 285.
[262] S. Sharpe. Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christology, p. 14.
[263] See Williamson's The Great Law, p. 196.
[264] Loc. Cit., pp. 208, 209.
[265] S. John i. 3.
[266] Jer. li. 15.
[267] See Ante, pp. 179-180.
[268] Athanasian Creed.
[269] Rev. iv. 8.
[270] S. Luke. i. 38.
[271] Ibid, 35.
[272] Book of Wisdom, viii. 1.
[273] Vol. IV. Ante-Nicene Library. S. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. V., ch. ii.
[274] See Ante, p. 262.
[275] See Ante, p. 207.
[276] Gen. i. 1.
[277] Job xxxviii. 4; Zech. xii. 1; &c.
[278] Gen. i. 2.
[279] Gen. i. 2.
[280] See Ante, p. 262.
[281] See Ante, p. 262.
[282] S. John i. 3.
[283] Bhagavad Gîtâ ix. 4.
[284] 1 Cor. xv. 27, 28.
[285] S. John xiv. 6. See also the further meaning of this text on p. 272.
[286] Heb. xii. 9.
[287] Numb. xvi. 22.
[288] Gen. i. 26.
[289] S. Matt. v. 48.
[290] S. John xvii. 5.
[291] S. John v. 26.
[292] S. Matt. i. 22.
[293] Heb. ii. 18.
[294] Much of this chapter has already appeared in an earlier work by the author, entitled, Some Problems of Life.
[295] S. James i. 17.
[296] Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.
[297] See Chapter xii.
[298] Heb. i. 14.
[299] S. Matt. x. 29.
[300] Acts xvii. 28.
[301] T. H. Huxley. Essays on some Controverted Questions, p. 36.
[302] S. Luke xxii. 41, 43.
[303] S. John i. 11.
[304] Rev. iii. 20.
[305] H. P. Blavatsky. Key to Theosophy, p. 10.
[306] Is. xxxiii. 17.
[307] On the Mysteries, sec. v. ch. 26.
[308] Ps. xl. 7, 8, Prayer Book version.
[309] S. Luke, v. 18-26.
[310] Ibid. vii. 47.
[311] G. R. S. Mead, translated. Loc. cit., bk. ii., §§ 260, 261.
[312] Ibid. §§ 299, 300.
[313] S. Matt. xii. 36.
[314] Ibid. ix. 2.
[315] Loc. cit. iii. 9.
[316] Ibid. vi. 43.
[317] Ibid. ix. 30.
[318] See ante, Chap. VIII.
[319] This is the cause of the sweetness and patience often noticed in the sick who are of very pure nature. They have learned the lesson of suffering, and they do not make fresh evil karma by impatience under the result of past bad karma, then exhausting itself.
[320] S. Luke, vii. 48, 50.
[321] Loc. cit., ix. 31.
[322] S. Matt. vii. 1.
[323] Loc. cit., bk. ii. § 305.
[324] Rev. iii. 20.
[325] G. Bruno, trans. by L. Williams. The Heroic Enthusiasts, vol. i., p. 133.
[326] Ibid., vol. ii., pp. 27, 28.
[327] Ibid., pp. 102, 103.
[328] Rev. iv. 5.
[329] The phrase "force and matter" is used as it is so well-known in science. But force is one of the properties of matter, the one mentioned as Motion. See Ante, p. 264.
[330] Job xxxviii. 7.
[331] See on forms created by musical notes any scientific book on Sound, and also Mrs. Watts-Hughes' illustrated book on Voice Figures.
[332] See ante, p. 138 and p. 302.
[333] In the Sacrament of Penance the ashes are now usually omitted, except on special occasions, but none the less they form part of the rite.
[334] See ante p. 329.
[335] Christian Records, p. 129.
[336] The Great Law, pp. 161-166.
[337] See ante, p. 151.
[338] Diegesis, p. 219.
[339] 1 Pet. iii. 4.
[340] 2 Kings vi. 17.
[341] 1 Cor. x. 16.
[342] Jer. xliv.
[343] Gen. xiv. 18, 19.
[344] The Great Law, pp. 177-181, 185.
[345] Lev. xvii. 11.
[346] Rom. xii. 1.
[347] Isaiah liv. 5; lxii. 5.
[348] Eph. v. 23-32.
[349] Athanasian Creed.
[350] 2 Pet. i. 20.
[351] 1 See ante, p. 102.
[352] 2 Cor. iii. 6.
[353] 1 Cor. ii. 11, 13.
[354] Is. vi. 6, 7.
[355] S. John v. 4.
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