Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . e occasions with theclose similarity of the Buddhist and the Catholic rites. Achapelle ardente is erected ; and candles burn incessantlybefore it, and incense smokes. Each night a choir of tala-poins comes into the mortuary chamber and chants in Palithe sacred hymns, much after the fashion of Italy and Spain.^ The Epoch of Buddha. The Buddhist chronology dates from the epoch of Buddha,as the Christian from the epoch of Christ. The Nirvanacommences the Buddhist epoch. Festivals. The earliest Christian festivals were simply the Jewishones.^ The Fe
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . e occasions with theclose similarity of the Buddhist and the Catholic rites. Achapelle ardente is erected ; and candles burn incessantlybefore it, and incense smokes. Each night a choir of tala-poins comes into the mortuary chamber and chants in Palithe sacred hymns, much after the fashion of Italy and Spain.^ The Epoch of Buddha. The Buddhist chronology dates from the epoch of Buddha,as the Christian from the epoch of Christ. The Nirvanacommences the Buddhist epoch. Festivals. The earliest Christian festivals were simply the Jewishones.^ The Feast of the Nativity was not celebrated untilthe fourth century, says Riddle.^ Thethree great Jewish festivals—the sowing,reaping, and Pentecost—were the sameas the Buddhist. Of course, the Pass-over or Easter originally began the the fourteenth day of the firstmonth (Numb. ix. 5) it was of the Easter rites still exhibitthis derivation, witness the taper-light- ing, a symbol of the birth of the new sun-god. The Easter. 2 1 See La Loubdre, Description, etc. vol. i. p. 371. Riddle, Christian Antiquities, p. 607. ^ jj^j^j^ p. 618. Q 226 BUDDHISM IN CHRISTENDOM. cgo-s were unintelHgible to me until I came across theBuddhist mystical egg. The legend is that at the beginning of each dispensationor mystical year, the angel with the diamond spear strikes thisegg, left like Brahmas Qgg behind by the dead race, and atonce the yolk and the white divide as exhibited. One partrepresents the unrevealed Buddha, the other the conceivableBuddha, the eternal dualism of all mystics. Councils. More important are the ecumenical councils introducedinto the early Christian Church to suppress heresy. Wheredid they come from .? Such an idea is foreign to the geniusalike of the dominant Roman and Jewish religions. Bothwere religions of outside ceremonial, and as long as this wascomplied with, their priests were satisfied. They did notpursue their scrutiny into the recesses of
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