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THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS CHAPTER VII THE FRIENDSHIP OF JESUS AND LAMAAS—JESUS EXPLAINS TO LAMAAS THE MEANING OF TRUTH 1. the priests of Jaguanath was one who loved the Jewish boy. Laman ramas was the name by which the priest was known. 2. One da y as Jesus and Lamaas walked alone in Plaza Jaguanath, Lamaas said: “My Jewish master, what is truth?” 3. And Jesus said: “Truth is the only thing that changes not. 4. In all the world there are two things: The one is truth, the other falsehood, and falsehood that which seems to be. 5. Now the truth is aupht and has no cause, and yet it Is the cause - of everything. ' 6. Falsehood is aught and yet it is the manifest of nght, 7, Whatever has been made will be unmade; that which begins must end. 8. All things that can be seen by human eyes are manifests of aught, are aught, and so must pass away, 9. The things we see are but reflexes just appearing, while the ethers vibrate s0 and so, and when conditions change they disappear. 10. The Holy Breath is truth, is that which was, and is, and ever more shalf be; it cannot change nor pass away.’ 1]. Lamaas said: “You answer well, now what is roan?” 12. And Jesus said: “Man is the truth and falsehood strangely mixed. : . 13. Man is the breath made flesh; so truth and falsehood are con- joined in him; and then they thrive, and naught goes down and man as truth abides.” 14. Again Lamaas asked: “What do you say of power?” “15. And Jesus said: “It is a manifest; is the result of force; it~ is but naught; it is illusion, nothing more. Force changes not, but power changes as the ethers change.” 16. “Force is the will of Allah and is omnipotent, and power is that will in manifest, directed by the Breath.” 17. “There is a power in the winds, a power in the waves, a power in the lightning’s stroke, a power in the human arm, a power in ‘the eye.” 18. “The ethers cause these powers to be, and thought of Elohim, of ‘4 angel, man, or other thinking things, directs the force; when it has done a its work the power is no more.” | _- 2? Again Lamaas asked: “Of understanding, what have you to. an 20,” And Jesus said: “It is the rock on which man builds himself; it is the gnosis of the aught and of the naught, of falsehood and of truth.” . -1. It is the knowledge of the lower self; the sensing of the powers . of man himself.” 22. Again Lamaas asked: “Of wisdom, what have you to say ry? 1 -23. ‘And Jesus said: “It is the consciousness that man is aught; e% that, Allah and man are one.