Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . n reality a newmother—Dharma the Holy Spirit. The Buddhist asceticsare called the sons of Dharma. In the great Bible of Christian mystics, the works of , this great change is called the God Birth ; andthe Mother of Adoption, as he calls it, is symbolized bythe baptismal font, which in his day must have been some-thing like the tanks in Buddhist temples in China, for atriple immersion was part of the ceremony. In the benedic-tion of fonts in the Catholic Church occurs this passage, adrecreandos novos populos quos tibi fens baptismatis
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . n reality a newmother—Dharma the Holy Spirit. The Buddhist asceticsare called the sons of Dharma. In the great Bible of Christian mystics, the works of , this great change is called the God Birth ; andthe Mother of Adoption, as he calls it, is symbolized bythe baptismal font, which in his day must have been some-thing like the tanks in Buddhist temples in China, for atriple immersion was part of the ceremony. In the benedic-tion of fonts in the Catholic Church occurs this passage, adrecreandos novos populos quos tibi fens baptismatis parturit,Spiritum adoptionis emitte. St. Dionysius tells us that thePerfected Mystic in the early Church was called the Thera-peut. There were three stages of spiritual progress— 1. Purification. 2. Illumination. 3. Perfection. In the Middle Ages mysticism was profoundly give from Didron (Plate I.) an illumination from a is the planisphere of the Apocalypse. I add a little designto make its meaning more clear. THE FOUR HORSES OF THE APOCALYlSE. From Didron. {Page 36. MYSTICAL EGYPT. Z7
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