Jesus say:

"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with
the glory _which I had with thee before the world
was_."[249:7]

Paul is made to say:

"And he (Christ) is before all things."[250:1]

Again:

"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and
forever."[250:2]

St. John the Divine, in his "Revelation," has made Christ Jesus say:

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end"--"which is,
and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty,"[250:3]
"the first and the last."[250:4]

Hindoo scripture also makes _Crishna_ "the first and the last," "the
beginning and the end." We read in the "Geeta," where Crishna is
reported to have said:

"I myself never was not."[250:5] "Learn that he by whom all
things were formed" (meaning himself) "is
incorruptible."[250:6] "I am eternity and
non-eternity."[250:7] "I am before all things, and the mighty
ruler of the universe."[250:8] "I am the beginning, the middle
and the end of all things."[250:9]

Arjouan, his disciple, addresses him thus:

"Thou art the Supreme Being, incorruptible, worthy to be
known; thou art prime supporter of the universal orb; thou art
the never-failing and eternal guardian of religion; _thou art
from all beginning_, and I esteem thee."[250:10] Thou art "the
Divine Being, before all other gods."[250:11]

Again he says:

"Reverence! Reverence be unto thee, before and behind!
Reverence be unto thee on all sides, O thou who art all in
all! Infinite in thy power and thy glory! Thou includest all
things, wherefore thou art all things."[250:12]

In another Holy Book of the Hindoos, called the "Vishnu Purana," we also
read that Vishnu--in the form of Crishna--"who descended into the womb
of the (virgin) Devaki, and was born as her son" was "_without
beginning, middle or end_."[250:13]

_Buddha_ is also Alpha and Omega, without beginning or end, "The Lord,"
"the Possessor of All," "He who is Omnipotent and Everlastingly to be
Contemplated," "the Supreme Being, the Eternal One."[250:14]

_Lao-kiun_, the Chinese virgin-born God, who came upon earth about six
hundred years before Jesus, was without beginning. It was said that he
had existed from all eternity.[250:15]

The legends of the Taou-tsze sect in China declare their founder to
have existed antecedent to the birth of the elements, in the Great
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