[162] The Hidden Wisdom of Christ, 1864, vol. 1, p. 39.
[163] De Bell. jud. 2, 11.
[164] One of the lowest sub-planes of Kâmaloka (Purgatory).
[165] The Christian Heaven (Devachan of theosophy).
[166] The earth, which is above when compared with Tartarus, but not so in relation to the Elysian Fields; versification imposes such strict limits on expression, that it must have the benefit of poetic licence.
[167] Fréret, Examen crit. des apologistes de la relig. chrét., pages 12 and 13, Paris, 1823.
[168] Faustus.
[169] And yet the Gospel of Saint John denies this (chap. 1, v. 21). The contradictions in the gospels are so numerous that they alone have created thousands of infidels.
[170] Stolberg expresses himself as follows on this matter: "This question was evidently based on the opinion that the disciples of Jesus had formed, that this man, whose punishment dated from his very birth, had sinned in a previous life." (Histoire de N. S. Jésus-Christ et de son siècle, Book 3, chap. 43).
[171] Revelation, chap. 3, v. 12.