. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. Treasures,* in the Lotus-Sutra, whichis actually THE TOWER OF SALVATION. * The Name of Jehovah is a strongTower, the righteous runneth into it andis safe. (Prov. 18. 10, p. 24). In the Hebrew Psalms this truthis often repeated: **Jehovah is my HighTower and House of Defence ** to which** the great waters, when they overflow,cannot reach (p. 26.), the Tower beingactually the Zigguraty towering hi^h above the Sumerian plains, and identical , . / ^ th
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. Treasures,* in the Lotus-Sutra, whichis actually THE TOWER OF SALVATION. * The Name of Jehovah is a strongTower, the righteous runneth into it andis safe. (Prov. 18. 10, p. 24). In the Hebrew Psalms this truthis often repeated: **Jehovah is my HighTower and House of Defence ** to which** the great waters, when they overflow,cannot reach (p. 26.), the Tower beingactually the Zigguraty towering hi^h above the Sumerian plains, and identical , . / ^ the equivalent of in meaning with the Egyptian GreatAipha and Omega andPyramid, the Chinese Pagoda, and the The Pilgrimage-Mountains in all Topes, Stupas, or Pagodas, were all designed to. * Corruption of Sanskrit tope. t See TempUs, Index ^^ Pyramid ; Messiah, p. 146 n. I; MasperosDawn of Civilization, illust. of Didu, p. 30. ^Zikuraf (from the Assyrian■^rty^ar,) means Remembrance, a Memorial Monument. 372 THE LOTUS GOSPEL indicate the authority of a Universal Monarch over theThree v^orlds. The square plinth at their base denotes the Worldof Men ; the dome, the vault of Heaven, the Realm ofGod, the tchetra rising above tchetray the World ofSpace ending in the Triscula or Empyrean.* The ** Tower of David ^* at Jerusalem was veneratedby Christian pilgrims. (Cf. Luke 2. 69.) In the First century, Philo Judaeus wrote thusof certain prayers used in the Jewish Temple : The High Priest offers them up, not only for the whole human racebut also for the whole race of Nature, 7\e, of the Earth, Water, Fire, andAJr,t and pours forth his prayers and thanksi;ivings for them all, lookingupon the World! says Philo, as it really is, as his Counlry,% for \vhich»therefore, he is
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