Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . inseparable, and Christ always achild. There is a deep meaning in this. They heal the sick,they give sight to the blind, cure deafness, restore the im-potent. This is always done, likewise, through the instrumentalityof the water that has washed the Child Christ. This is veryBuddhistic. Mary herself is the waterof life, and it is only by the birth ofthe Child Christ in each of us thatwe can hope to gain it. I give fromDidron a design, which manifestlysignifies much more than a meremother and child on the materialplane. Whether this means to re-p
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . inseparable, and Christ always achild. There is a deep meaning in this. They heal the sick,they give sight to the blind, cure deafness, restore the im-potent. This is always done, likewise, through the instrumentalityof the water that has washed the Child Christ. This is veryBuddhistic. Mary herself is the waterof life, and it is only by the birth ofthe Child Christ in each of us thatwe can hope to gain it. I give fromDidron a design, which manifestlysignifies much more than a meremother and child on the materialplane. Whether this means to re-present or not the Child Christ in thetransparent womb of the mother,^ Icannot say. Neither Christ nor the earlyChristian writers held the modernjealousy of the mysteries of othernations. Christ: I will utter things whichhave been kept secret from the foun-dation of the world. ^ St. Paul: Even the mysterywhich hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints. ^1 See a7ite, p. i6. 2 ^^t^^ ^^^i. 35. 3 Qq\^ \ Fig. 6. 40 BUDDHISM IN CHRISTENDOM. The gospel which ye have heard, and which was every creature under heaven, whereof I Paul am made aminister. ^ Clement of Alexandria : And those who lived accordingto the Logos were really Christians, though they have beenthought to be atheists, as Socrates and Heraclitus were amongthe Greeks, and such as resembled them. ^ St. Augustine: For the thing itself which is now calledthe Christian religion really was known to the ancients, norwas wanting at any time from the beginning of the humanrace until the time that Christ came in the flesh, from whencethe true religion which had previously existed began to becalled Christian ; and this in our day is the Christian religion,not as having been wanting in former times, but as having inlater times received this name. ^ Justin Martyr: If, then, we hold some opinions near ofkin to the poets and philosophers in greatest repute amongstyou, why are we
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