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va * ~*~ bed od THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS - aw . “y CHAPTER X , _JESUS SPAKE ON THE UNITY OF ALLAH AND MAN TO THE HINDUS {. Benares is the sacred city of the Brahms, and in Benares, Jesus taught ; Udraka was His host. 2. Udraka made a feast in honor of his guests, and many high born Hindu priests and scribes were there. 3. And Jesus said to him, with much delight: “I speak to you con- cerning life—the brotherhood of life. 4. The universal Allah is one, yet He is more than one; all things are one. ; 5. By the sweet breath of Allah all life is bound in one; so if you touch a fiber of a living thing you send a thrill from center to the outer bounds of life. : 6 And when you crush beneath your foot the meanest worm, you shake the throne of Allah and cause the sword of life to tremble in its sheath, 7, The bird sings out its song for men, and men vibrate in unison to help it sing. - ’ .@ The ant constructs its home, the bee its sheltering comb, the i>. . spider weaves her web and bowers breathe to them a spirit im their sweet —..7 @ perfume that gives them strength to toil. 9. Now, men and birds and beasts and creeping things are deities, made flesh; and how date you kill anything? 10. It is cruelty that makes the world awry when men have learned. that when they harm a living thing, they harm themselves, they surely will not kill, nor cause_a thing that Allah has made to suffer pain.” 11. A lawyer said: “I pray to Jesus, tell who is this Allah you speak about; where are His priests, His temples and His shrines?” 12. And Jesus said: “The Allah I speak about is everywhere; He cannot be compassed with walls, nor hedged about with bounds of any n . ; Be All people worship Allah, the One; but all the people see Him not alike. ‘ 14.. This universal Allah is wisdom, will and love. 15. All men see not the Triune Allah, One see Him as Allah of might, another as Allah of thought, another as Allah of love... oct A man’s ideal is his God and so, as man unfolds, his God ua- folds. Man's God to-day, to-morrow is not God. . 17. The nations of the earth see Allah from different points of view, and so He does not seem the same to every one. ‘ 18. Man names the part of Allah he sees, and this to him is all of Allah; and every nation sees a part of Allah, and every nation has « 319. You Brahmans cali Him Parabrahm, in Egypt He is Troth, and Jens is His name in Greece, Jehovah is His Hebrew name, but every~ where He ig the causeless cause, the rootless root from which all things ? a . . . a ae ! . a;