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I live, ye shall live also.&quot; Not with Jesus was 

 born the sense of the divine spirit of original, con 

 tinuing and never ending life and advance. In 

 the myriad ages of our race upon this planet there 

 have been many prophets and priests of the liv 

 ing God who knew this truth and could not be 

 put down by discouragements of transient and 

 evil days. Not with Jesus did the line of these 

 sons of God end, nor will it ever end. But it 

 was he who first, so far as we have record, so knew 

 the purpose of the Spirit and was so possessed by 

 its unity, its sacred essence and its illimitable 

 glory in ages beyond imagination to conceive, that 

 his sense thereof was not hope, but knowledge, 

 the certainty where is no room for doubt. He 

 spake, because he knew at first hand. The voice 

 of his Father was his own voice, for they were 

 one. 



&quot; If a man die, shall he live again ? &quot; This is 

 the form the question of questions has taken all 

 down through the ages. It is the riddle of the 

 eternal sphinx, of which all legendary sphinxes 

 are but shadowy types ; and notwithstanding 

 CEdipus, it may be maintained that no sphinx 

 ever was answered, for his answer was an over 

 whelming catastrophe. Perhaps it is near the time 

 when the riddle shall assume a new form, and 

 we shall no longer ask a question that predicates 



