. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. Life from the dead is in that word—Tis Immortality! The Buddhists of Tibet have not a char and preciseidea of the Unity of God, the Holy Trinity, the Redemptionof man, the Incarnation of the Son of God, or the Eu-charist, although (as Abbe Hue, said) ** All these dogmascan be found in Germ at the root of their beliefs, butthey are not defined/*1[ 324 THE LOTUS GOSPEL The Jodo-slm in Japan has a Nem-butsu Dance, nine centuries old, which reminds one
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. Life from the dead is in that word—Tis Immortality! The Buddhists of Tibet have not a char and preciseidea of the Unity of God, the Holy Trinity, the Redemptionof man, the Incarnation of the Son of God, or the Eu-charist, although (as Abbe Hue, said) ** All these dogmascan be found in Germ at the root of their beliefs, butthey are not defined/*1[ 324 THE LOTUS GOSPEL The Jodo-slm in Japan has a Nem-butsu Dance, nine centuries old, which reminds one of High Mass in Spain and at Paris. St. Aldhehn (639-709) wrote, <« On the sacred Altar the golden Chalice flashes with gems as theheavens glow with blazing stars. There stands the broad Paten formedof silver, bearing the Divine Remedies of our Life.^ A pre-Reformation patina, (dated 1500)t is a circular disc Hke that in Tibet divid-ed into six the seventh,central circle, in-stead of the Hri—Heart—syllable isthe Face of ourSaviour Christ,from the nimbusLight-rays not thisindeed * the Heartof Mercy of our. God A Catholic Patenof the Benedictus ? * St. Augustine of Hippo exclaimed : Many and great are my in-firmities, but Thy Medicine is mightier! St. Thomas Aquinas attributed four effects to Its reception : Nou-rishment, growth, repair, delight, wherefore Adorons, remer9ions,demandons, implorons misericorde ! t To the kindness of Rev. W. H. Allen, Vicar of Parson Drove,Wisbech, where this Paten is preserved, I am indebted for the illustration. X On every Egyptian altar there was a golden disc, either a plaincircle, or with Light=rays streaming from it, or inscribed with a HumanFace. (Supra p. no. n. J). A table for this Face-bread, or Bread of The Presence, was onthe top of the Great Pyramid. Cf. Ex. 25. 30 mg. ; Lev. 24. 5-7,8, Covenant, lit. Alliance. Lu 24. 35, of manifestation; 2 Cor. 4, 6. THE LOTUS GOSPEL 325 The Word of Mercy givi
Size: 1589px × 1572px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbuddhism, bookyear191
