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[241] See Chapter IX., "The Trinity."
[242] See Ante, pp. 84, 99, 100.
[243] 2 Cor. xii. 2, 4.
[244] S. Matt. v. 48.
[245] S. John xvii. 22, 23.
[246] 2 Cor. v. 1.
[247] 1 Cor. xv. 28.
[248] This mistranslation was a very natural one, as the translation was made in the seventeenth century, and all idea of the pre-existence of the soul and of its evolution had long faded out of Christendom, save in the teachings of a few sects regarded as heretical and persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church.
[249] S. John iii. 13.
[250] Heb. v. 9.
[251] Rev. i. 18.
[252] H. P. Blavatsky. The Voice of the Silence, p. 90, 5th Edition.
[253] S. John. xvii. 5.
[254] 1 Cor. xv. 20.
[255]Chhândogyopaniṣhat, VI. ii., 1.
[256] Deut. vi. 4.
[257] 1 Cor. viii. 6.
[258] An error: En, or Ain, Soph is not one of the Trinity, but the One Existence, manifested in the Three; nor is Kadmon, or Adam Kadmon, one Sephira, but their totality.
[259] Quoted in Williamson's The Great Law, pp. 201, 202.
[260] H. H. Milman. The History of Christianity, 1867, pp. 70-72.
[261]Asiatic Researches, i. 285.
[262] S. Sharpe. Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christology, p. 14.
[263] See Williamson's The Great Law, p. 196.
[264]Loc. Cit., pp. 208, 209.
[265] S. John i. 3.
[266] Jer. li. 15.
[267] See Ante, pp. 179-180.
[268] Athanasian Creed.
[269] Rev. iv. 8.
[270] S. Luke. i. 38.
[271]Ibid, 35.
[272] Book of Wisdom, viii. 1.
[273] Vol. IV. Ante-Nicene Library. S. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. V., ch. ii.
[274] See Ante, p. 262.
[275] See Ante, p. 207.
[276] Gen. i. 1.
[277] Job xxxviii. 4; Zech. xii. 1; &c.
[278] Gen. i. 2.
[279] Gen. i. 2.
[280] See Ante, p. 262.