Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . THE FOUR HORSES OF THE APOCALYlSE. From Didron. {Page 36. MYSTICAL EGYPT. Z7. Fig. 5- The special symbol of Christ was Aries, in India a horseand here we see it passing along the ecliptic. The stages in the Apocalypseare— 1. The white horse with asword (Gemini). 2. The black horse with thescales (Virgo, strictly, but thebalance was very important inKabbalistic mysticism). 3. The white horse with thebow (Sagittarius). 4. The pale horse of death(Pisces, in India, as I shall show,Dharma Chakra, the Quoit of Death, see Fig. 5). The ancient mystics d
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . THE FOUR HORSES OF THE APOCALYlSE. From Didron. {Page 36. MYSTICAL EGYPT. Z7. Fig. 5- The special symbol of Christ was Aries, in India a horseand here we see it passing along the ecliptic. The stages in the Apocalypseare— 1. The white horse with asword (Gemini). 2. The black horse with thescales (Virgo, strictly, but thebalance was very important inKabbalistic mysticism). 3. The white horse with thebow (Sagittarius). 4. The pale horse of death(Pisces, in India, as I shall show,Dharma Chakra, the Quoit of Death, see Fig. 5). The ancient mystics divided the plani-sphere into two halves. I shall go more deeply into thissubject by-and-by. The first, or lower life, is spirituallycalled Egypt in the Apocalypse. The second is the NewJerusalem. These in India figure as women, the black andthe white Durga. In the Kabbalah these are Sophia and the husband of the latter is Samael, the Prince of pair in union were known as the Beast. ^ Thereare two cities, says St. Augustine, one of angels and goodmen, the other the city of the wicked. ^ The four g
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