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The trap that caught ignorance in its snares and led to the fatal decline

of intelligence necessary for a true interpretation of Scriptural lore is not


hard to locate. It was the strange device that ancient genius employed to
release truth to the intelligent and the initiated, while hiding it from the
base and vulgar mind. For the Bibles were written in a language the very
existence of which has hardly been known since the days of its ancient
usage�the language of symbolism.

For �to die� means, for the soul, to live here on earth; �death� means the soul�s
life here in the flesh; and the dead is a term denoting those alive here in
the mortal body!

If the body was the home of the soul in its condition of �death,� then it was the
grave, the tomb, the sarcophagus, the sepulcher, the mummy-
case of the soul. This life, they said, was the soul�s �death,� as, conversely, the
soul�s free life in the higher worlds was the body�s death.

In coming to earth the divine spirit exchanged a very high and blessed potential
life for a very poor actual one.
It suffered the loss of a whole superior dimension of consciousness. In the realms
of disembodiment, consciousness�free of the trammels of the flesh�functions at a
level one full degree higher than that which it can experience through the
comparatively sluggish instrumentality of the brain.

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