Chapter 66168–169

169 – Christ came into the world to purify, not to fulfil. He

himself foreknew the failure of his mission and the necessity of his return with the sword of God into a world that had rejected him.

In this aphorism what does “the sword of God” represent?

The sword of God is the power that nothing can resist.

7 October 1969 170 – Mahomed’s mission was necessary, else we might have

ended by thinking, in the exaggeration of our efforts at self-purification, that earth was meant only for the monk and the city created as a vestibule for the desert.

171 – When all is said, Love and Force together can save

the world eventually, but not Love only or Force only. Therefore Christ had to look forward to a second advent and Mahomed’s religion, where it is not stagnant, looks forward through the Imams to a Mahdi.

Love alone as preached by Christ failed to transform man. Force alone as preached by Mahomed did not transform man, far from it. That is why the consciousness which is at work to transform mankind, unites Force with Love, and the One who must realise this transformation will come on earth with the Power of Divine Love.

10 October 1969 172 – Law cannot save the world, therefore Moses’ ordi-

nances are dead for humanity and the Shastra of the