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Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

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[41] S. Mark iv. 10, 11, 33, 34. See also S. Matt. xiii. 11, 34, 36, and S. Luke viii. 10.
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[44]Loc. cit. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. I. i. 1.
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[46] As to the Greek woman: "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs."—S. Mark vii. 27.
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[49]Kaṭhopaniṣhat II. iv. 10, 11.
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[50]Brihadâraṇyakopaniṣhat. IV. iv. 7.
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[54] It must be remembered that the Jews believed that all imperfect souls returned to live again on earth.
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[64] Note how this chimes in with the promise of Jesus in S. John xvi. 12-14: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.... He will show you things to come.... He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."
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[65] Another technical name in the Mysteries.
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[67] Col i. 23, 25-28. But S. Clement, in his Stromata, translates "every man," as "the whole man." See Bk. V., ch. x.
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[69] Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. V. ch. x. Some additional sayings of the Apostles will be found in the quotations from Clement, showing what meaning they bore in the minds of those who succeeded the apostles, and were living in the same atmosphere of thought.
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[78] Rev. i. 18. "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen."

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