Category: History - Religious
The second group practically admitted the arbitrary and useless nature of most of the edicts, but maintained that they were given by the All-wise, in a book penned by His finger, to miraculously prepare a nation distinct from the other nations of the earth, for a special purpo...
The second group practically admitted the arbitrary and useless nature of most of the edicts, but maintained that they were given by the All-wise, in a book penned by His finger...
2. CHAPTER II.The early Buddhists, following the example of the Vedic Brahmins, divided space into Nirvritti, the dark portion of the heavens, and Pravritti, the starry systems. Over this las...
3. ii. 6--"At that time old Simeon saw Him (Christ) shining as a pillar oflight when St. Mary the Virgin, His mother, carried Him in her arms, and was filled with the greatest pleasure at the sight. And the angels stood around Him, adoring Him as a Ki...
4. CHAPTER III."The young boy will, without doubt, be either a king of kings, or a great Buddha. If he is destined to be a great Buddha, four presaging tokens will make his mission plain. He w...
5. CHAPTER IV.The teaching of Buddha, as set forth by him, is simple and sublime. There are two states of the soul, call them ego and non-ego--the plane of matter and the plane of spirit--wha...
6. CHAPTER V.There are two Zoroasters, or rather a sort of dual personality. One of these Zoroasters lived six thousand years B.C. according to Darmesteter, and the other about five hundred...
7. CHAPTER VI.This tells us everything. Matthew in Aramaic wrote down all the "sayings" of Christ that he could remember, and our three gospels and a number of other gospels were translations...
8. CHAPTER VII.Historical questions are sometimes made more clear by being treated broadly. Let us first deal with this from the impersonal side, leaving out altogether the alleged words and d...
9. CHAPTER VIII.I have said that in the New Testament there is an Essene and an anti-Essene Christ. Both are most conspicuous in the Gospel of St. Luke. Catholic and Protestant disputants are a...
10. CHAPTER IX.Competent critics hold that Luke has based the Acts on earlier records. Certainly the picture of the early Church at Jerusalem is very Essenic. The disciples had all things in c...
11. CHAPTER X.The Indians of old observed that one portion of the sky was dark at night and one portion lit with stars. They judged that the dark portion was spirit--primary substance, and th...
12. CHAPTER XI."The crozier, the mitre, the dalmatic, the cope or _pluvial_, which the grand lamas wear on a journey, or when they perform some ceremony outside the temple, the service with a...