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84 JESUS IN INDIA that they have mentioned this ointment in their books, regardless of their respective beliefs, proves beyond any doubt that the prepa- ration of the ointment was too well known a fact to be denied by any community or nation. True, not until the time came, that was the appointed time for the coming of the Promised Messiah, up till that time it did not occur to any of these people to make use of the historical importance of this ointment which was recorded in hundreds of books and was known to tens of millions of people of different nationalities. We have nothing to say here except to acknowledge that God willed it so, and it had been predestined by Him, that this sharp and shining weapon and this crucial and decisive evidence which was meant to destroy the creed of the cross would come to light at the hands of the Promised Messiah. The Holy Prophetsas had prophesied that the faith of the cross shall neither decline nor shall its progress slow down until the Promised Messiah would appear in the world. It was at his hands that the 'breaking of the cross' was to be brought about. The point which was meant to be underlined by this prophecy was that in the time of the Promised Messiah, God would create conditions which would lay bare the truth about the crucifixion. The creed of the cross would come to an end and complete its life span, not through war or violence, but exclusively through heavenly causes, that would manifest themselves in the world in the form of scien- tific discernment and reason. This indeed is the meaning of the hadith reported in Sahih Bukhari and other books. It was essen- tial, therefore, that heaven should not have allowed to become manifest these incontrovertible proofs and conclusive evidence until the coming of the Promised Messiah. And this is what came to pass. And as of now, with the appearance of the Promised One,