[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] _Chhândogyopanishat_, 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. [281] See _Ante_, p. 262. [282] S. John i. 3. [283] _Bhagavad Gîtâ_ ix. 4. [284] 1 Cor. xv. 27, 28. [285] S. John xiv. 6. See also the further meaning of this text on p. 272. [286] Heb. xii. 9. [287] Numb. xvi. 22. [288] Gen. i. 26. [289] S. Matt. v. 48. [290] S. John xvii. 5. [291] S. John v. 26. [292] S. Matt. i. 22. [293] Heb. ii. 18. [294] Much of this chapter has already appeared in an earlier work by the author, entitled, _Some Problems of Life_. [295] S. James i. 17. [296] Gen. xxviii. 12, 13. [297] See Chapter xii. [298] Heb. i. 14. [299] S. Matt. x. 29. [300] Acts xvii. 28. [301] T. H. Huxley. _Essays on some Controverted Questions_, p. 36. [302] S. Luke xxii. 41, 43. [303] S. John i. 11. [304] Rev. iii. 20. [305] H. P. Blavatsky. _Key to Theosophy_, p. 10. [306] Is. xxxiii. 17. [307] _On the Mysteries_, sec. v. ch. 26. [308] Ps. xl. 7, 8, Prayer Book version. [309] S. Luke, v. 18-26. [310] _Ibid._ vii. 47. [311] G. R. S. Mead, translated. _Loc. cit._, bk. ii., §§ 260, 261. [312] _Ibid._ §§ 299, 300. [313] S. Matt. xii. 36. [314] _Ibid._ ix. 2. [315] _Loc. cit._ iii. 9. [316] _Ibid._ vi. 43. [317] _Ibid._ ix. 30. [318] See _ante_, Chap. VIII.