. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. THE LOTUS GOSPEL 29 Sword*, and Eight-petalled flower are found in Shingonas ** the Rin-Katsuma, Fudos sword, and Eight-petalledLotus/ I believe a parallel to her Marriage should bealso found therein. The nuptial Ring is described in theParable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. 20 ; cf also ,5. St. Barbaras Tower is clearly sacramental incharacter. It had three windows, through which thesoul received Light. St. Barbara! explained these astypifying
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. THE LOTUS GOSPEL 29 Sword*, and Eight-petalled flower are found in Shingonas ** the Rin-Katsuma, Fudos sword, and Eight-petalledLotus/ I believe a parallel to her Marriage should bealso found therein. The nuptial Ring is described in theParable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. 20 ; cf also ,5. St. Barbaras Tower is clearly sacramental incharacter. It had three windows, through which thesoul received Light. St. Barbara! explained these astypifying * the Father, Son, and Spirit—the Three areOne.^t Within, was a Bath-chamber of wondrous splendour; and through itswindows the Chalice and sacredHost were In Barbaras hand a largePeacock-feather is singularly pro-minent, and this is the specialsymbol of the glorious ImmortalLife.§ A curious link with Japanis that just as St. Barbara issometimes pictured with thistriple Tower on her forehead,. ■^ Philo compared the flaming Sword of the Cherubim at the Gate ofParadise (Eden, Gen. 3, 24) to the Solar Wheel. The Svastika symbolizesthis Wheel. «To turn the Wheel means the Inauguration of theUniversal Kingdom of Truth and Righteousness. t In all probability, the name Barbara is allegorical and connectedwith the Sumerian ddrti, the Revealer, the Voice; Bdr-bdr-ti, Lord ofVision. (Cf. Daniel ). Thus the Shewbread in the Jewish, as wellas Assyrian, temples was the Bread of Vision. See Sayce, HibbertLectures pp. 153, 289 1887; Gordon, Temples of the Orient^ p. II2 1902. X infra, ch. 22. \ See Jamesons Sacred and Legendary Arty Barbara andCatherine. 30 THE LOTUvS GOSPEL or in her hand, so Kwanzeon Bosatsu carries the Pagoda,or sari-to ! It is significant that cir 1599, Menexes, theRoman Archbishop of Goa charged the St. ThomasChristians of Malabar in S. India with certain errors,amongst which (he says) : ** They consecrate little cakes made with oil and salt
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