This evidently corresponds to his saying, “They who use the sword, shall perish by the sword.”

The conclusion is obvious that hate and destruction beget their kind, and that love is the only power that can prevent the continuation of destruction.  This may with equal logic, be applied to the sacrifice of animal and bird life for food, as well as the sacrifices of blood which formed a part of ancient ritual.

His disciples said unto him: 

“When will thou be manifest to us, and when shall we see thee?”

He saith: 

“When ye shall be stripped and not be ashamed.”

The time is near at hand, when the body will not be regarded as something vile and unworthy; something of which to be ashamed and to keep covered, as if God’s handiwork were vile.

In fact, the function of sex, from the extreme of ancient sex worship to the present extreme of sex degradation, shall soon be established in its rightful place.  It is not the purpose of this book to deal with this important subject, so we will say no more here.

Nevertheless, this saying attributed to Jesus, the Christ, resurrected as it has been in this century, is timely.  It is almost universally conceded that the time of the “Second Coming of Christ” is already at hand.  Just what this second coming means, is interpreted differently by theologians, philosophers, scientists, poets and prophets, but there is a unanimous belief that the time is here and now.

Those who have the comprehension to read the signs of the times, are cheerfully expectant of radical changes in our attitude toward the function of sex and the divinity of love.

“When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male as the female, neither male nor female—­these things if ye do, the kingdom of My Father shall come.”

Again, the meaning of these words depends upon the degree of illumination of the person reading them.  They mean the present inevitable equality of the sexes, when each individual will count not as a mere man or a mere woman, but as an important factor in the world’s redemption.  Or, it will appeal to a few as the promised time when every soul which has completed the circle, ended its karma, and claimed its god-hood, unites with the soul of its mate, the two blending into one perfect whole—­the Father-Mother God of the New Dispensation.

Again we find in these newly discovered papyri a phrase bearing upon this subject: 

To the question of Salome: 

“How long shall death reign?” The Lord answered: 

“As long as ye women give birth.  For I am come to make an end to the works of the woman.”

Then Salome said to him: 

“Then have I done well that I have not given birth?”

To this the Lord replied: 

“Eat of every herb, but of the bitter one eat not.”

When Salome asked when it shall be known what she asked, the Lord said: