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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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<strong>the</strong> adjeC' tive$t whidb are added to <strong>the</strong>m by a<br />

certain class <strong>of</strong> students, mark only Uidr<br />

ff|/W»iMM from <strong>the</strong>se facts. <strong>The</strong>se facts may be<br />

true, CTen if as yet incomplete.<br />

although <strong>the</strong> inferences may be false. <strong>The</strong>ology<br />

should not here rashly interfere. But whatever <strong>the</strong><br />

ultimate result, <strong>the</strong>se two are certainly <strong>the</strong><br />

fundamental &cts in <strong>the</strong> history <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong><br />

Ood, <strong>and</strong>, marking <strong>the</strong>m as such, <strong>the</strong> devout<br />

philosopher may rest contented.<br />

■ <strong>The</strong> Gnostics, to whom, in <strong>the</strong> opinion <strong>of</strong> many,<br />

so frequent references are made in <strong>the</strong> writings <strong>of</strong><br />

St. John <strong>and</strong> St. Paul, were only an <strong>of</strong>fspring<br />

(ra<strong>the</strong>r, as <strong>the</strong> Germans would term it, an Abort) <strong>of</strong><br />

Alez<strong>and</strong>rianism on <strong>the</strong> one hajid, <strong>and</strong> on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>of</strong> Eastern notions, which are so largely embodied<br />

in <strong>the</strong> later Kabbalah.<br />

I'HE PREPARATION FOR THE GOSPEL.

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