By Geoffrey Hodson
This primary of a two-volume abridgement of a Theosophical vintage explains how a literal analyzing of the Bible misses wealthy hid which means, how Biblical symbols encode esoteric truths, and the way Christ's lifestyles may be obvious as an initiatory trip.
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Since profound truths are conveyed and spir itual experience, knowledge and power can be obtained by ilie successful interpretation of the Bible, the student's preparations must in their turn be not only intellectual, but spiritual as well. Indeed, such preparations assume the character of a vigil. The Veil of Allegory While many of the incidents in the Bible are doubtless founded upon fact, nevertheless great wisdom and light are to be discovered within the scriptural record of historical and pseudo historical events.
3 Mk. 4 : 36-41. 41 INTERPRETATION OF ALLEGORIES arose, however, and in their anxiety the disciples awoke the sleep ing passenger, the Lord Christ. He, in his majCl>ty and might, stilled by a word the raging storm. Interpreting and applying this story to the storms of human life (especially of emotion, as is indicated by placing the incident upon water), when assailed by temptation, driven by desire or wishing to eradicate an unwanted habit, we are advised to with draw our thoughts from the difficulty, concentrate powerfully upon our divine nature and, to the exclusion of every other thought, affirm its irresistible power.
The inequalities of human birth, the con tinuance of apparently undeserved human suffering, the happiness and success of evildoers and the misery and failure of kindly and good-living people-these pose intellectual questions which modem Christianity, bereft of the gnos is , is unabl e to answe r . Inquirers find that dogmatism stifles the human intellect, which demands both that religious teaching be consistent with the scientific method of inquiry and tiJought, and that man be granted complete freedom to exercise the mind as fully in religious and spiritual inquiry as 1 Rom.