This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... once more on the earth. When Peter saw Jesus he said: "This is the resurrection. He who was dead has risen, he has overcome death." By those who have little experience in psychic phenomena, who do not live in the psychic world, who are unacquainted with its laws, to whom the physical only is real, it will be objected ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... once more on the earth. When Peter saw Jesus he said: "This is the resurrection. He who was dead has risen, he has overcome death." By those who have little experience in psychic phenomena, who do not live in the psychic world, who are unacquainted with its laws, to whom the physical only is real, it will be objected that the writer has based the mighty event of the resurrection on a delusion. Peler was deluded when he thought he saw Jesus walking before him on the way to Jeiusalem, and the delusion of Peter has been the abiding delusion of the Christian Church. The answer to this objection is that Peter, when he saw Jesus, was under the power not of a delusion but of an illusion. A delusion is the negation of truth; an illusion is truth seen in relation. Throughout our lives we are under the power of an illusion. When in the morning we say: "The sun is rising," when in the evening we say: "The sun has set," we are under illusion. From science we learn that the sun, as a matter of fact, never rises and never sets, that it is we who rise and set as our revolving earth carries us above and below the line of the sun's light. Yet we do not err when we say the sun rises and sets; we only express a relative truth. For us the sun does rise and set, and it always will so long as man is on the earth and the sun is in the heavens. Likewise, Peter, when he saw Jesus walking before him on the way to Jerusalem, was under the power not of a delusion but of an illusion. Jesus was, indeed, not walking in a physical body in the physical world; but he was walking in a psychical body through the psychical world. He had risen from the dead to stand erect in the heart o! Peter to wield a power mightier than physical man can exercise. CHAPTER XLIII...
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The gutter is cracked at the title page opening; shaken; slight rubbing at extremities. xviii, 406 pp. 8vo, Inscribed, "with the affectionate regards of Algernon S. Crapsey, " March 28, 1921, on the front free endpaper.