--_Roman_.
Whatsoever you do not wish your neighbor to do to you, do not unto him.
This is the whole law. The rest is a mere exposition of it.--_Jewish_.
While it is probable that Jesus gave no directions or methods of
attainment, yet the records of his sayings give the clue to the character
of his instruction to those of his students who were capable of
understanding, particularly as shown in a recently discovered papyrus,
authentically identified as belonging to the early Christians. This-papyrus
was discovered by Egyptian explorers in 1904. Although the papyrus was more
or less mutilated, the meaning is sufficiently clear to justify the
translators in inserting certain words. However, we will here quote only
such of the "sayings" as were decipherable, without having anything
supplied by translators.
Evidently having been asked when his kingdom should be realized on earth he
answered:
"When ye return to the state of innocence which existed before the fall"
(i.e., when manifestation will be perceived in its illusory character, and
the soul freed from the enchantment of the mortal consciousness).
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