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Even Maimonides recommends silence with regard to the true meaning of the ''Bible ''texts. This injunction destroys the usual affirmation that “Holy Writ” is the only book in the world whose divine oracles contain plain unvarnished truth. It may be so for the learned Kabalists; it is certainly quite the reverse with regard to Christians. For this is what the learned Hebrew Philosopher says: | Even Maimonides recommends silence with regard to the true meaning of the ''Bible ''texts. This injunction destroys the usual affirmation that “Holy Writ” is the only book in the world whose divine oracles contain plain unvarnished truth. It may be so for the learned Kabalists; it is certainly quite the reverse with regard to Christians. For this is what the learned Hebrew Philosopher says: | ||
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{{Style P-Quote|{{Style P-No indent|were not even revealed to all priests. Alone the initiates had them divulged.” And so we find the same great secresy prevalent in every ancient religion. * }}}} | {{Style P-Quote|{{Style P-No indent|were not even revealed to all priests. Alone the initiates had them divulged.” And so we find the same great secresy prevalent in every ancient religion. * }}}} | ||
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{{Style P-Quote|{{Style P-No indent|ascribed? What has, or what by possibility ought mystery to have, with the promulgation of the truths of God? * }}}} | {{Style P-Quote|{{Style P-No indent|ascribed? What has, or what by possibility ought mystery to have, with the promulgation of the truths of God? * }}}} | ||
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It is “Jehovah,” as will be presently shown, that suggested the necessity of veiling and screening this substitute for the unpronounceable name, and that led to all this “mystery parables, dark sayings | It is “Jehovah,” as will be presently shown, that suggested the necessity of veiling and screening this substitute for the unpronounceable name, and that led to all this “mystery parables, dark sayings | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|and cloaking.” Moses had, at any rate, initiated his seventy Elders into the hidden truths, and thus the writers of the ''Old Testament ''stand to a degree justified. Those of the ''New Testament ''have failed to do even so much, or so little. They have disfigured the grand central figure of Christ by their dogmas, and have led people ever since into millions of errors and the darkest crimes, in His holy name.}} | {{Style P-No indent|and cloaking.” Moses had, at any rate, initiated his seventy Elders into the hidden truths, and thus the writers of the ''Old Testament ''stand to a degree justified. Those of the ''New Testament ''have failed to do even so much, or so little. They have disfigured the grand central figure of Christ by their dogmas, and have led people ever since into millions of errors and the darkest crimes, in His holy name.}} | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|as closely related to the mysteries of Physics and Physiology, as to Psychism and the transcendental nature of cosmic elements and Theogony; unriddled they would prove more than injurious to the uninitiated; delivered into the hands of the present generations in their actual state of physical and intellectual development, in the absence of spirituality and even of practical morality, they would become absolutely disastrous.}} | {{Style P-No indent|as closely related to the mysteries of Physics and Physiology, as to Psychism and the transcendental nature of cosmic elements and Theogony; unriddled they would prove more than injurious to the uninitiated; delivered into the hands of the present generations in their actual state of physical and intellectual development, in the absence of spirituality and even of practical morality, they would become absolutely disastrous.}} | ||