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ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
flesh and fish eating as we have risen above cannibalism.
Whatever license may have been given in the barbaric past
will disappear in the altruistic future, when more refined
sensibilities shall have awakened us to a fuller sense of
the horrors involved in the gratification of a carnivorous
taste.
For a very full presentation of the question, "Does the
Bible justify Flesh Eating," we would refer the inquirer
to a little pamphlet by that name issued by the Unity
Society of Kansas City, Missouri, which gives the pro and
the con with great impartiality, and shows that it was
only
as a concession to the before mentioned lust for flesh
that the practice was tolerated at all.
QUESTION Xo. 108.
Please explain why the fatted calf was not killed for the
righteous son instead of the prodigal. Was that not giving
a reward for wrong doing ?
Answer: The story of the prodigal son was a parable
whereby the Christ intended to teach a lesson and not an
actual fact. It is a story which tells of the spirit's pilgrimage
through matter. There are different classes of