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rv ere | ee ep ' . i ——aa ; ow ~~ FROM THE HOLY PROPHET” 20. When men are afraid of Allah and take Him for a foe, they dress up other men in fancy garbs and cali them priests. 21. And charge them to restrain the wrath of Allah by yers poe when they fail to win His. favor by their prayer§, to buy ‘din off . sacrifice of animals or birds. 22. When man sees Allah as one with him, as Father Allah he needs no middle man, no priest to intercede. - 23. He goes straight up to Him and says: ‘My Father God, Afiah!’ And then he lays his hands in Allah’s own hand, and all is well. 24. And this is Allah. You are, each one, a priest, just for your- self; and sacrifice of blood Allah does not want. vlog 25. Just give your life in sacrificial service to the all of Sfe ‘and Allah is pleased.” & 26. When Jesus had thus said He stood aside; the people ‘were amazed, but strove among themselves. 7 7 ott 27. Some said: “He is inspired by Holy Brahm” and others said: “He is insane,” and others said: “He is obsessed; He speaks as devils speak. ar mens. But Jesus tarried not. Among the guests was one, a tiller of the soil, a generous soul, a seeker after truth, who loved the words that > Jesus spoke, and Jesus went with him and in his home abode. . ; ‘ ~ *. . . . “ . = 3 . JESUS AND BARATA—TOGETHER THEY READ THE SACRED BOOKS 2 -* ..:™ ore _ | oONGez 1. Among the Buddhist priests was one who saw 2 lofty wisdodf-* in the words that Jesus spoke. Jt was Barato Arabo. eur SE 2. Together Jesus and Batato read the Jewish Psalms and prophets, = ead the vedas, and Avesta and the wisdom of Guatama. FO “3. And as they read and talked about the possibilities of man, Barata said: “Man is the marvel of the universe. He is part of every-. + thing, for he has been a living thing on every plane of life. ty oe S$, Time was when man was not, and then he was a bit of formless sbstance in the molds of time, and then a protoplast. 6. By universal law, all things tend upward to a state of perfectness. The protoplast evolved, becoming worm, then reptile, bird and beast, and then at last it reached the form of man. _* SF, 7. Now, man himself is mind,-and mind is here to gain perfectign - form best suited to its growth. So mind may manifest as worm, or bird or beast of man, 7 8. The time will come when everything of life will be evolved unto the state of perfect man. . a 9. And after man is man in perfectness, he will evolve to higher forms of life.” _ 10. And Jesus said: “Barata Arabo, who told you this, that mind 7 which is man, may manifest in flesh of beast or bird or creeping thing? FO é . Lo