tion of Vishnu, would be one god and yet three, three gods 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 gods_, 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 God, and God 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. Titus, ii. 13. Romans, ix. 5. Acts, vii. 59, 60.
[293:17] Mueller: 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] Mueller: 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.)
[293:21] "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed." (James, v. 16.)
[294:1] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, pp. x. and 39.
[294:2] "That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world." (John, i. 9.)
[294:3] Matt. iv. 1; Mark, i. 13; Luke, iv. 2.
[294:4] Mueller: Science of Religion, p. 140.
[294:5] Matt. v. 17.
[294:6] Mueller: Science of Religion, p. 243. See also, Bunsen's
Angel-Messiah, pp. 47, 48, and Amberly's Analysis, p. 285.
[294:7] John, iv. 1-11.
Just as the Samaritan woman wondered that Jesus, a Jew, should ask drink
of _her_, one of a nation with whom the Jews had no dealings, so this
young Matangi warned Ananda of her caste, which rendered it unlawful for
her to approach a monk. And as Jesus continued, nevertheless
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