s Eastern Monachism, p.
358.)

[422:3] King's Gnostics and their Remains, p. 1.

[422:4] Ibid. p. 6.

[422:5] King's Gnostics, p. 23.

[422:6] Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. xvii.

[423:1] Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. xvii.

[423:2] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. vii. "The New Testament is the
Essene-Nazarene Glad Tidings! Adon, Adoni, Adonis, style of worship."
(S. F. Dunlap: Son of the Man, p. iii.)

[423:3] Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 747; vol. ii. p. 34.

[423:4] "In this," says Mr. Lillie, "he was supported by philosophers of
the calibre of Schilling and Schopenhauer, and the great Sanscrit
authority, Lassen. Renan also sees traces of this Buddhist propagandism
in Palestine before the Christian era. Hilgenfeld, Mutter, Bohlen, King,
all admit the Buddhist influence. Colebrooke saw a striking similarity
between the Buddhist philosophy and that of the Pythagoreans. Dean
Milman was convinced that the Therapeuts sprung from the 'contemplative
and indolent fraternities' of India." And, he might have added, the Rev.
Robert Taylor in his "_Diegesis_," and Godfrey Higgins in his
"Anacalypsis," have brought strong arguments to bear in support of this
theory.

[424:1] Buddha and Early Buddhism, p. vi.

[424:2] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 121.

[424:3] Ibid. p. 240.

[425:1] "The Essenes abounded in Egypt, especially about Alexandria."
(Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. xvii.)

[425:2] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 255.

[426:1] Rhys Davids' Buddhism, p. 179.

[426:2] This is clearly shown by Mr. Higgins in his Anacalypsis. It
should be remembered that Gautama Buddha, the "Angel-Messiah," and
Cyrus, the "Anointed" of the Lord, are placed about six hundred years
before Jesus, the "Anointed." This cycle of six hundred years was called
the "_great year_." Josephus, the Jewish historian, alludes to it when
speaking of the patriarchs that lived to a great age. "God afforded them
a longer time of life," says he, "on account of their virtue, and the
good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries,
which would not have afforded the time for foretelling (the periods of
the stars), unless they had lived _six hundred years_; for the _great
year_ is completed in that interval." (Josephus, Antiq., bk. i. c. iii.)
"From this cycle of _six hundred_," says Col. Vallancey, "came the name
of the bird Phoenix, called by the Egyptians Phenu, with the well-known
story of its going to Egypt to burn itself