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Subject: Wade A. Tisthammer doubts it.

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Date Posted: 11/ 4/04 1:26pm
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "I doubt it." on 10/31/04 12:19pm

>>Wade A. Tisthammer, what do you think of Buddhism and its relationship to Judaism and the early version(s) of Christianity? See, for example, the book by Arthur Lillie: "Buddhism in Christendom or Jesus, The Essene." Buddha died 470 BC.
..... On page 1 it says: The process by which man advanced in knowledge of spirit was called the "contemplative life" in Palestine; "magic" in Persia; the "Bodhi," or "Buddhism," in India; "Gnosticism," the Greek equivalent of the Indian word in Alexandria.
..... And on page 2 it says: Christianity and its gospel emerged from the mystical section of Israel.
..... On page 5 it says When we see thus that the lives of Jesus and of Buddha are framed upon the same lines, we should not be astonished to find considerable analogy between them.
..... On page 6 we find: The great bible of Catholic mystics has always been the works of the so-called Dionysius the Areopagite.
..... And page 9 contains: This Heavenly Man of the "Kabbalah" was plainly also St. Paul's idea of Christ ... (1 Cor. xii.).
..... page 11 has: Attempts have recently been made to prove that the mother of Buddha was not a virgin; etc. etc.

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