“One by one the tide of time engulfed the sects of the early centuries, until of the whole number only one survived in its primitive integrity. That one still exists, still teaches the doctrine of its founder, still exemplifies its faith in works of power. The quicksands which swallowed up every other outgrowth of the religious agitation of the times of Jesus, with its records, relics, and traditions, proved firm ground for this. Driven from their native land, its members found refuge in Persia, and today the anxious traveler may converse with the direct descendants of the “Disciples of John”, who listened, on the Jordan’s shore, to the “man sent from God”, and were baptized and believed. This curious people, numbering 30,000 or more, are miscalled “Christians of St. John”, but in fact should be known by their old name of Nazareans, or their new one of Mendaeans.
To term them Christians, is wholly unwarranted. They neither believe in Jesus as Christ, nor accept his atonement, nor adhere to his Church, nor revere its “Holy Scriptures”. Neither do they worship the Jehovah-God of the Jews and Christians, a circumstance which of course proves that their founder, John the Baptist, did not worship him either. And if not, what right has he to take a place in the Bible, or in the portrait gallery of Christian saints? Still further, if Ferho was his God, and he was “a man sent by God”, he must have been sent by Lord Ferho, and in his name baptized and preached?
Now, if Jesus was baptized by John, the inference is that he was baptized according to his own faith; therefore, Jesus too, was a believer in Ferho, or Faho, as they call him; a conclusion that seems the more warranted by his silence as to the name of his “Father”. And why should the hypothesis that Faho is but one of the many corruptions of Fho or Fo, as the Tibetans and Chinese call Buddha, appear ridiculous? In the North of Nepal, Buddha is more often called Fo than Buddha. The Book of Mahawansa shows how early the work of Buddhistic proselytism began in Nepal; and history teaches that Buddhist monks crowded into Syria and Babylon in the century preceding our era, and that Buddhasp, (Bodhisatva), the alleged Chaldean, was the founder of Sabism or baptism.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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