Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . on once made will not be repeated. This resur-rection is called in a previous passage, the resurrection of thedead, and the re-establishment of the body. ^ After this resurrection of the body will come, as we learnfrom the same scripture, a last judgment. Then will appear on earth the assemblage of all thebeings of the world with man. In this gathering each will seethe good and the evil that he has done. . Then the justwill be separated from the darvands. The just will go toGorotman. The darvands will be precipitated into theDouzakh. . The fathe
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . on once made will not be repeated. This resur-rection is called in a previous passage, the resurrection of thedead, and the re-establishment of the body. ^ After this resurrection of the body will come, as we learnfrom the same scripture, a last judgment. Then will appear on earth the assemblage of all thebeings of the world with man. In this gathering each will seethe good and the evil that he has done. . Then the justwill be separated from the darvands. The just will go toGorotman. The darvands will be precipitated into theDouzakh. . The father will be separated from the mother,the sister from the brother. * We see from this where the Lower Judaism got its ideasabout a resurrection of the material body, and the last judgment. But on the top of this has been superposed a second idea,which contradicts and stultifies the first in every particular—saint-worship. 1 Beal, Catena of Buddhist Scriptures, p. 243. 2 Sec ante, p. 13. 2 Boundehesch, chap. xxxi. ^ Ibid., ch. xxxi. <. I RITUAL. 209 In 2 Maccabees xv. 15, the dead prophet Jeremiah revisitsearth. He appears to Judas Maccabeus holding a sword. Take this holy sword, a gift from God, with the which thoushalt wound the adversaries. White-robed saints and their heaven figure conspicuouslyin the earliest scripture written by a personal follower ofChrist, the Apocalypse. Plainly, too, Christ knew nothing ofthe idea that the soul after death dwelt in a torpid state withthe worms and decomposing matter of its body in thesepulchre, as proved by the promise to the penitent thief, thestory of Lazarus and Dives, the appearance of Moses andElias. Also He promised to go and prepare places for Hisdisciples in the many mansions of heaven ; and adjudicatedin the squabble of His disciples for the privilege of sitting onHis right or left hand. Had He held^the popular Jewish views,He would have had to explain that the figures seen on thetransfiguration mount could not possibly be
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