Note 331 — Terminal Essay. (continued 3)

This too when the Founder of Christianity talks of “Eating and drinking at his table!” (Luke xxii. 29). My notes have often touched upon this inveterate prejudice, the result, like the soul-less woman of Al-Islam, of ad captandum, pious fraud. “No soul knoweth what joy of the eyes is reserved for the good in recompense for their works” (Koran xxxii. 17) is surely as “spiritual” as St. Paul (I Cor. ii., 9.) Some lies, however, are very long-lived, especially those begotten by self-interest.