Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All Your Brothers And Sisters In Spirit! And Those Higher Qualities In Consciousness Is Truly What The World Need In These Present Days… Those Of L, J, And C! And I Know The Prayers For Love, Joy, And Compassion Over The Years May Have Seemed Somewhat Redundant And Passive; But That Simple Prayer Serves A Mighty Purpose… Even If We Don’t Realize It; By Continuously Adding Positive Vibrations Of Love, Light, And Harmony Into The Atmosphere Around Us – And Radiating Loving Light Throughout All The Universe! And Through The Energy And Vibratory Action, Of Our Positive Thoughts, Sounds, Words, And Actions… For Ourselves And Others… We Release The Power Of Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”…The Living God Within Us; And Together… Elevate The Collective Consciousness… And Change The World For The Better! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“Such an extraordinary circumstance as the birth of a God into the world must be marked with unusual incidents and great éclat. This was first exhibited by angels, shepherds, prophets, magi or “wise men”, flocking around their cradles. In the second place we observe an unusual display of divine power and providential care on the part of the great Father God, who was still left in heaven to save the young saviors through their infancy. It is certainly a remarkable circumstance that so many of the infant Saviors should have been threatened with the most imminent danger of destruction, and yet in every case miraculously preserved, and thus were the Saviors saved.

A jealousy seems to have existed in several instances in the mind of the tyrant king or ruler of the country that the young Saviors and prospective spiritual rulers, who were mostly of royal descent, would ultimately acquire such favor with the people, by such a display of superior power and greatness of mind, as to endanger his retaining peaceable possession of the secular throne; to express it in brief, he feared the young God would prove a rival king, and hence took measures to destroy him.

In the case of the Christian Savior, we are told that an angel, or “the angel”, warned Joseph, the assumed father, to take the young Savior and God and flee with him into Egypt, because “Herod the king sought to destroy the young child’s life”, and had, in order to effect this end, decreed the destruction of all the children under two years old. And Joseph heeded the divine warning and fled as directed. An angel and a dream, then, it will be observed, were the instrumentalities used to save the young Judean Savior from massacre. And strange as it may seem, we find the same agencies had been previously employed to effect the rescue of other Saviors likewise and similarly threatened.

In the case of Chrishna of India, in particular, the similitude is very striking in nearly every feature of the whole story. In the first place there is the angel warning. In the Christian story we are not specifically informed how the tyrant Herod first became apprised of the birth of the Judean Savior. The Hindu story is fuller, and indicates that the angel was not only sufficiently thoughtful to warn the parents to flee from a danger which threatened to dispossess them of a divine child, and the world of a Savior; but was condescending enough to apprise the tyrant ruler, Cansa, of his danger likewise, as we are told he heard an angel voice announcing that a rival ruler was born in his kingdom. And hence, like Herod, he set about concocting measures to destroy him without a direct attack.

Why either of them should have taken such a circuitous or roundabout way of killing an infant, when the life of the strongest man, and every man in their kingdoms was at their instant disposal, “divine inspiration” does not inform us. But so it was. And we must not seek to “become wise above what is written” in their bibles. Herod’s decree required the destruction of all infants under two years of age; first ordering, however, “Go, and search diligently for the young child”, Matthew ii., 8.  Cansa’s decree ran thus: “Let active search be made for whatever young children there may be upon earth and let every boy in whom there may be found signs of unusual greatness, be slain without remorse.”

… And Mr. Higgins testifies relative to the case, that Chrishna was carried away by night, and concealed in a region remote from his natal place, for fear of a tyrant whose destroyer it had been foretold he would become, who, for that reason, had ordered all the male children born at that time to be slain.

Sculptures in Elephanta attest the story where the tyrant is represented as destroying the children. The date of this sculpture is of the most remote antiquity. “He who hath ears to hear, let him hear,” and deduce the pregnant inference, Joseph and Mary fled with the young Judean God into Egypt; Chrishna’s parents likewise fled with the young Hindu Savior to Gokul.

… And it may be remarked further that the “Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus”, once believed by the Christian world to be “inspired”, and which for hundreds of years passed current as divine authority, relates that Christ and his parents sojourned for a time at a place called Matarea, or Mathura, as Sir William Jones spells it, who says it was the birthplace of Chrishna. It is further related in the case of Chrishna, that as he and his parents approached the River Jumna in their flight, the waters “parted hither and thither”, so that they passed over “dry shod”, like Moses and the Israelites in crossing the Red Sea.

… Sir William Jones says: The Indian incarnate God Chrishna, the Hindus believe, had a virgin mother of the royal race, who was sought to be destroyed in his infancy about nine hundred years before Christ. It appears that he passed his life in working miracles, and preaching, and was so humble as to wash his friends’ feet; at length, dying, but rising from the dead, he ascended into heaven in the presence of a multitude.” The Cingalese relate nearly the same things of their Buddha.”

And several authors of Egyptian history refer to a story perpetuated in the Egyptian legends concerning the God Osiris, who was threatened with destruction by the tyrant Amulius; whom to save, his parents fled and concealed him in an arm of the River Nile, as Christ was concealed in the same country, and, for aught that appears to the contrary, in the same locality.

The mother of another and older Savior of Egypt fled by a timely warning to Epidamis before the birth of the divine child, and was there, delivered of “our Lord and Savior”, Horus. And the earthly or adopted father of the Grecian Savior, and God, Alcides, had to flee with him and his mother to Galem for protection from threatening danger.

… China, too, presents us with a case of the threatened destruction of a Savior in infancy, evidently recorded more than two thousand five hundred years ago. It is the case of the God Yu, who was concealed in a manner similar to that of Moses, a commemoration of the story of which is perpetuated by an image or picture of the virgin mother with a babe upon her knee, sometimes in her arms. Now, let it be noted that these virgin-born Gods, who, we are told, came “to save the world”, could not save themselves, but had to be protected and saved by other Gods.

Without pursuing the subject further in detail, we may mention by way of recapitulation, that Chrishna, Alcides, Zoroaster, Salvahana, Yu, to which list we may add Bacchus, Romulus, Moses, and Cyrus, according to their reputed history, were threatened with death and destruction, but were providentially and miraculously preserved. The case of Augustus is related by Suetonius, that of Romulus by Livy, and that of Cyrus by Herodotus. It will be recollected that Pharaoh, like Herod, in order to reach the infant Moses, ordered the massacre of all the male infants, Herod making no distinction of sex, in order that he might, by this singular and circuitous method, reach the object of his jealousy and malignity without passing a direct sentence of death upon him.

… Of course, all Gods must be heroes, physically or intellectually, or both. The more danger they encounter, and the earlier they manifest a precocious or preternatural smartness, the more like Gods. And hence we find several of the Saviors in very early childhood displaying great physical prowess in meeting and conquering danger, while others exhibit their superiority mentally by vanquishing their opponents in argument. Christ first began to exhibit proof of his divine character and greatness by meeting and silencing the doctors in the temple when only about twelve years of age. And similar proofs of divinity at or near this age is found in the history of some of the pagan Saviors.

Of Christ it is declared, “There went out a fame of him through all the region round about.” (Luke iv., 14.) And of the Grecian Esculapius it is likewise declared, “The voice of fame soon published the birth of a miraculous child”, and “the people flocked from all quarters to behold him.”
Of Confucius of China it is declared, “His extensive knowledge and great wisdom soon made him known, and kings were governed by his counsels, and the people adored him wherever he went.” And it is further declared of this “Divine Man”, that he seemed to arrive at reason and the perfect use of his faculties almost from infancy. It is reported of the God Chang-ti, that when questioned on the subject of government and the duties of princes and rulers while yet a child, his answers were such as to astonish the whole empire by his knowledge and wisdom.

It is related of a Grecian God that he demolished the serpents which attempted to bite or destroy him while in his cradle. “The proof of Osiris’s divinity was a blaze of light shining around his cradle soon after he was born. Relative to Pythagoras of the same country, we have it upon the authority of a Christian writer, that he exhibited such a remarkable character, even in youth, as to attract the attention of all who saw and heard him speak.” And the author further testifies of him that he “never was at any time overcome with anger, laughter, or perturbation of mind or precipitation of conduct.”

… Luke declares of Christ, that the people “were astonished at his understanding and answers”, Luke ii., 47. And the “Gospel of the Infancy” tells us that his tutor Zacheas was astonished at his learning, which reminds us of the statement found in “The Divine Word” of the Hindus, The Mahabharat, that the parents of the Savior Chrishna, in making arrangements to give him an education, sent him to a learned Brahman as tutor, whom he instantly astonished with his vast learning, and under whose tuition he mastered the whole circle of sciences in a day and a night. “Men, seeing the wonders performed by this child, told Nanda, his adopted father, that this could not possibly be his son.”

It is told of Buddha Sakia of India that, “as soon as he was born, a light shone around his cradle when he stood up and proclaimed his mission, and that the River Ganges during this time rose in a miraculous manner, which was stilled by his divine power, as Christ stilled the tempest on the sea.” “He was born”, says the New American Cyclopedia, “amidst great miracles, and soon as born, most solemnly proclaims his mission.”

…. And here let us observe that some of the Old Testament or Jewish heroes, as Moses, Solomon, and Samuel, are reported as exhibiting great superiority of mind in very early life; thus proving, it was thought, that if they were not Gods, they were at least from God, that is, endowed by him with divine power while yet mere children. Thus, the histories of all Gods and divine personages run in parallel grooves.”

The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves, 1875

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