Identifier: opencourt_mar1903caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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knight s symbols : as, by and by, the animalnature disappears, so a new nature, that of the God-Man, will appear; and as aknight—i. e., as a ruler of the animal!—this man will, aided by divine powers,conquer the land of the fathers, i. e., realise the union zuith God. The build-ing symbol indicates that this development is a slow process, as the placing ofstone upon stone when a house is erected. The symbol of tiezu life (the butterfly)means that this process is a natural process, as natural as the resurrection of thebutterfly in its fullness of time. Finally, the symbol of time is interpreted to MISCELLANEOUS. 181 mean that this development is to be realised here, while the wheel of time is roll-ing on, and before the death of the physical body. These ideas of wandering, of building, of knights contests, of new life throughdeath, are entirely Christian, and it seems strange that this was not understoodlong ago ; the reason may be that the Christianism which, principally, tries to
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Pompeiian Mosaic. avoid the punishment of sins (i. e., to avoid being educated by the perfect Father)—that Christianism cannot maintain the old ideal: Be ye perfect, as yourFather in the heavens is perfect, Matth. v. 48. Behold ! According to the Gospels the Christian is a zva?iderer : he wandersfrom earth to heaven, from darkness to light—from Egypt to Canaan (compare 182 THE OPEN COURT. St. Paul). Following after the Christ, upon via dolorosa, does he seek Death for the old man who is corrupted by delusive lusts. He is building, working at theinner temple of God (St. Paul), and he builds his house upon a rock. He is aknight: doubly powerful, as he is the ruler of the animal, does he struggle inces-santly with the enemies that would prevent him from living in the land of thefathers ;—and you remember how St. Paul (in Eph. vi.) describes the full pan-oply of God in which the Christos-knight is to be invested. He seeks the nevj life,that of regeneration, the resurrection of the b

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