ich he finds real and true, he must accept.
He must not be an imitator or blind follower of any soul. He must not rely
implicitly upon the opinion of any man without investigation; nay, each
soul must seek intelligently and independently, arriving at a real
conclusion and bound only by that reality. The greatest cause of
bereavement and disheartening in the world of humanity is ignorance based
upon blind imitation. It is due to this that wars and battles prevail;
from this cause hatred and animosity arise continually among mankind.
Through failure to investigate reality the Jews rejected His Holiness
Jesus Christ. They were expecting his coming; by day and night they
mourned and lamented, saying, "O God! hasten thou the day of the advent of
Christ," expressing most intense longing for the Messiah but when His
Holiness Christ appeared they denied and rejected him, treated him with
arrogant contempt, sentenced him to death and finally crucified him. Why
did this happen? Because they were blindly following imitations, believing
that which had descended to them as a heritage from their fathers and
ancestors; tenaciously holding to it and refusing to investigate the
reality of Christ. Therefore they were deprived of the bounties of His
Holiness whereas if they had forsaken imitations and investigated the
reality of the Messiah they would have surely been guided to believing in
him. Instead of this, they said, "We have heard from our fathers and have
read in the old testament that His Holiness Christ must come from an
unknown place; now we find that this one has come from Nazareth." Steeped
in the literal interpretation and imitating the beliefs of fathers and
ancestors they failed to understand the fact that although the body of
Jesus came from Nazareth, the reality of the Christ came from the unknown
place of the divine Kingdom. They also said that the sceptre of His
Holiness Christ would be of iron, that is to say he should wield a sword.
When His Holiness Christ appeared, he did possess a sword but it was the
sword of his tongue with which he separated the false from the true; but
the Jews were blind to the spiritual significance and symbolism of the
prophetic words. They also expected that the Messiah would sit upon the
throne of David whereas His Holiness the Christ had neither throne nor
semblance of sovereignty; nay, rather, he was a poor man, apparently
abject and vanquished; therefore how could he be the veritable Chri