“Enq: But we are distinctly told that most of the Buddhists do not believe in the Soul’s immortality?
Theo: No more do we, if you mean by Soul the personal Ego, or life-Soul – Nephesh. But every learned Buddhist believes in the individual or divine Ego. Those who do not, err in their judgement. They are as mistaken on this point, as those Christians who mistake the theological interpolations of the later editors of the Gospels about damnation and hell-fire, for verbatim utterances of Jesus.
Neither Buddha nor “Christ” ever wrote anything themselves, but both spoke in allegories and used “dark sayings”, as all true Initiates did, and will do for a long time yet to come.
Both Scriptures treat of all such metaphysical questions very cautiously, and both, Buddhist and Christians records, sin by that excess of exotericism; the dead letter meaning far overshooting the mark in both cases.
Enq: Do you mean to suggest that neither the teachings of Buddha nor those of Christ have been heretofore rightly understood?
Theo: What I mean is just as you say. Both Gospels, the Buddhist and the Christian, were preached with the same object in view. Both reformers were ardent philanthropists and practical altruists – preaching most unmistakably Socialism of the noblest and highest type, self-sacrifice to the bitter end.
“Let the sins of the whole world fall upon me that I may relieve man’s misery and suffering!” cries Buddha;…”I would not let one cry whom I could save!” exclaims the Prince-beggar, clad in the refuse rags of the burial-grounds.
“Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest”, is the appeal to the poor and the disinherited made by the “Man of Sorrows”, who hath not where to lay his head.
The teachings of both are boundless love for humanity, charity, forgiveness of injury, forgetfulness of self, and pity for the deluded masses; both show the same contempt for riches, and make no difference between meum and tuum.
Their desire was, without revealing to all the sacred mysteries of initiation, to give the ignorant and the misled, whose burden in life was too heavy for them, hope enough and an inkling into the truth sufficient to support them in their heaviest hours.
But the object of both Reformers was frustrated, owing to excess of zeal of their later followers. The words of the Masters having been misunderstood and misinterpreted, behold the consequences!”
H. P. Blavatsky
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