“After reading the following philosophical aphorisms, who can believe that Jesus and Paul had never read the Grecian and Indian philosophers?
Sentences from Sextus, the Pythagorean, and other Heathen:
1. “Possess not treasures, but those things which no one can take from you.”
2. “It is better for a part of the body which contains purulent matter, and threatens to infect the whole, to be burnt, than to continue so in another state, (life).”
3. “You have in yourself something similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of “God”.
4. “The greatest honor which can be paid to God, is to know and imitate his perfection.”
5. “What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.” (Analects of Confucius, page 76; see Max Muller’s The Works of Confucius).
6. “The moon shines even in the house of the wicked.” (Manu)
7. “They who give, have things given to them; those who withhold, have things taken from them.”
8. “Purity of mind alone sees God”, still a popular saying in India.
Verses from the New Testament:
1. “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.” (Matthew 6:19)
2. “And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter unto life maimed, than go to hell”, etc. (Mark 9:43)
3. “Know ye not ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16)
4. “That ye may be the children of your Father, which is in Heaven, be ye perfect even as your Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:45-48)
5. “Do ye unto others, as ye would that others, should do to you.”
6. “He make his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and send rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matthew 5:45)
7. “Whosoever hath, to him shall be given; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away.” (Matthew 13:12)
8. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8)
Plato did not conceal the fact that he derived his best philosophical doctrines from Pythagoras, and that himself was merely the first to reduce them to systemic order, occasionally interweaving with them metaphysical speculations of his own. But Pythagoras himself got his recondite doctrines, first from the descendants of Mochus, and later, from the Brahmans of India. He was also initiated into the Mysteries among the hierophants of Thebes, the Persian and Chaldean Magi. Thus, step by step do we trace the origin of most of our Christian doctrines to Middle Asia. Drop out from Christianity the personality of Jesus, so sublime, because of its unparalleled simplicity, and what remains? History and comparative theology echo back the melancholy answer, “a crumbling skeleton formed of the oldest pagan myths!””
H. P. Blavatsky
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