Judas,
the disciple who "went and hanged himself," finished his record in the gospels; but Judas, the symbol of that which seeks to betray the Christ, will drag along a fictitious existence as long as the fiction of mortality itself continues.
From
the beginning of mortal history obedience to divine law seems to have been the determining factor in the welfare both of individuals and of nations.
In
the tenth chapter of John's gospel we read that when Jesus sought to warn his disciples of the thieves and robbers which would seek to take from them their spiritual possessions, they did not understand the warning given.
All
thoughtful people are agreed that at this time of the year we have many hints of the dawn of a new day, when all that has seemed to vanish in the dark winter of mortal experience springs up again at the call of the Mind which rules the universe.