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to find water holes in the desert. This is surely the Spirit of God. . In 1960 I went to Liverpool to work and found lodging with a spinster lady, a staunch Christian, who took other lodgers, mainly students at Liverpool University. In this way I met first a. Bahai, and went to local meetings with him and became interested in comparative religion, and then an Ahmadi, a Doctor's son from Lahore, who gave me lots of books about his beliefs. When he told me he believed that Jesus had been saved from death on the cross, I was immediately impressed and thought it to be true, so much so that in 1962 when I took my family to Australia, I wrote a book on comparative religion and dealt with this idea of the survival of Jesus, finding indeed confirmation in the Bible. . Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the man who had been inspired to say that Jesus had been saved from death on the cross. We were at last enabled to look at Christianity in a different light. . Today I am convinced there was no such thing as the Ascension, one of the pillars of the Faith and Dogma. Yet how could this misinterpretation of the scriptures have arisen?. At the Council of Bishops at Nicaea in 325 A. D. it was deliberately misinterpreted through self-will, self interest no doubt, and Bishop Arius was condemned for "heresy", the one who was right in saying that Jesus was a man like any other. . Then we had dark ages and the suppression of knowledge, burning of books and so on. . To-day we can go into churches up and down the land and find devoted congregations (I was in one at Easter in the heart of the country and the congregation was of such nature that it could have been set there a thousand years ago) having the same age old beliefs. What is truth? asked Pilate. Indeed we still do not know the truth of a spiritual world, there is no proof, save what we know through inspired persons; and there would be no. Faith if we possessed proof. Jesus tried to prove it by his actions. . Mankind has made him fail by making him God, so we have churches split by schisms. Where is the man today who will admit to believing in Angels, Demons and Spirits? (For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection nor angel nor spirit but the. Pharissees acknowledge them all (Acts 23:8). . Mirza Ghulam Ahmad cut through all this prejudice with his insight. A man of the highest courage, he must deserve the highest praise. In 1899 it was not so easy to put your ideas for119