Part 84 (1/2)

[293:1] This has evidently an allusion to the Trinity. Buddha, as an incarnation of Vishnu, would be one G.o.d and yet three, three G.o.ds and yet one. (See the chapter on the _Trinity_.)

[293:2] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 45, and Beal: Hist. Buddha, p.

177.

_Iamblichus_, the great _Neo-Platonic mystic_, was at one time _transfigured_. According to the report of his servants, _while in prayer to the G.o.ds_, his body and clothes were changed to a beautiful gold color, but after he ceased from prayer, his body became as before.

He then returned to the society of his followers. (Primitive Culture, i.

136, 137.)

[293:3] See ch. xxvii.

[293:4] See that recorded in Matt. viii. 28-34.

[293:5] See ch. xxiii.

[293:6] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 49.

[293:7] See Matt. xxviii. John, xx.

[293:8] See chap. xxiii.

[293:9] See Acts, i. 9-12.

[293:10] See ch. xxiv.

[293:11] See Ibid.

[293:12] See ch. xxv.

[293:13] Matt. xvi. 27; John, v. 22.

[293:14] ”Buddha, the Angel-Messiah, was regarded as the divinely chosen and incarnate messenger, the vicar of G.o.d, and G.o.d himself on earth.”

(Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. 33. See also, our chap. xxvi.)

[293:15] Rev. i. 8; xxii. 13.

[293:16] John, i. 1. t.i.tus, ii. 13. Romans, ix. 5. Acts, vii. 59, 60.

[293:17] Muller: Hist. Sanscrit Literature, p. 80.

[293:18] This is according to Christian dogma:

”Jesus paid it all, All to him is due, Nothing, either great or small, Remains for me to do.”

[293:19] Muller: Science of Religion, p. 28.

[293:20] ”Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your father which is in heaven.”

(Matt. vi. 1.)