Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . he Buddhistmonks would have announced that the good man after deathis at one and the same time— 1. Unconscious in the tomb awaiting the sound of a trumpet. 2. Conscious in the sky at the right hand of God. The earliest Christian liturgies were called earliest Buddhist liturgy was called Sapta BuddhaStotra (the Praise of the Seven Buddhas). Oddly enough,in the Catholic Litany of all the Saints, seven principalbeings are addressed—the angels Michael, Gabriel, andRaphael, the Three Persons of the Trinity, and the these las
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . he Buddhistmonks would have announced that the good man after deathis at one and the same time— 1. Unconscious in the tomb awaiting the sound of a trumpet. 2. Conscious in the sky at the right hand of God. The earliest Christian liturgies were called earliest Buddhist liturgy was called Sapta BuddhaStotra (the Praise of the Seven Buddhas). Oddly enough,in the Catholic Litany of all the Saints, seven principalbeings are addressed—the angels Michael, Gabriel, andRaphael, the Three Persons of the Trinity, and the these last have been substituted for the other fourangels of Kabbalistic worship. After these seven there is ageneral invocation to angels, holy angels, and happy spirits,and to the minor saints, as in Buddhism. Purgatory. I have asked Catholics how it is that saints can be residingin heaven before they can possibly have been judged andpronounced saints. They say that it is a miracle. This, to ^ Picart, Ceremonies, etc. vol. vii. p. 216. Plate BlDDHA APPEARING AT THE ALTAR DURING WORSHIP. [Page 2IO. From Aiiiaravatl. RITUAL. 211 my mind, fails not only to explain, but to appreciate thedifficulty. Besides, it is not only the question of saints thatstultifies the Apostles Creed. Much, indeed most, of themechanism of the Catholic Church is designed to extricatethe souls of laymen from purgatory as soon as possible afterdeath. It is the same in Buddhism, but in that Creed weknow how the doctrine was built up. In early Vedic daysfolks believed in an eternal heaven but no hell. By-and-bythe notion of a place of expiation was added. Then thepriests of India or Egypt invented the doctrine of the metem-psychosis to account for their caste privileges. It was taughtthat the Karma, or causation of good or evil actions, ushereda man into a new birth as a parrot or a princess, a jackdawor a banker, according to its quality. But an early creed isnot easily superseded in the mind of a people
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