“The “soul” under trial is brought before Osiris, the “Lord of Truth”, who sits decorated with the Egyptian cross, emblem of eternal life, and holding in his right hand the Vannus or the flagellum of justice. The spirit begins, in the “Hall of the Two Truths”, an earnest appeal, and enumerates its good deeds, supported by the responses of the forty-two assessors – its incarnated deeds and accusers. If justified, it is addressed as Osiris, thus assuming the appellation of the Deity whence its divine essence proceeded, and the following words, full of majesty and justice, are pronounced! “Let the Osiris go; ye see he is without fault. …He lived on truth, he has fed on truth. …The god has welcomed him as he desired. He has given food to my hungry, drink to my thirsty ones, clothes to my naked. …He has made the sacred food of the gods the meat of the spirits.”
In the parable of the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 25), the Son of Man (Osiris is also called the Son) sits upon the throne of his glory, judging the nations, and says to the justified, “Come ye blessed of my Father (the God) inherit the kingdom. …For I was hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink… naked and ye clothed me.” To complete the resemblance (Matthew 3:12): John is made to describe Christ as Osiris, “whose fan (winnow or vannus) is in his hand, and who will “purge his floor and gather his wheat into the garner.” The same in relation to Buddhist legends. In Matthew 4:19, Jesus is made to say: “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men”, the whole adapted to a conversation between him and Simon Peter and Andrew, his brother.
In Schmidt’s “Der Weise und der Thor”, a work full of anecdotes about Buddha and his disciples, the whole from original texts, it is said of a new convert to the faith, that “he had been caught by the hook of the doctrine, just as a fish, who has caught at the bait and line is securely pulled out.” In the temples of Siam, the image of the expected Buddha, the Messiah Maitree, is represented with a fisherman’s net in the hand, while in Tibet he holds a kind of trap. The explanation of it reads as follows: “He (Buddha) disseminates upon the Ocean of birth and decay, the Lotus-flower of the excellent law as a bait; with the loop of devotion, never cast out in vain, he brings living beings up like fishes, and carries them to the other side of the river, where there is true understanding.”
Had the erudite Archbishop Cave, Grabe, and Dr. Parker, who so zealously contended in their time for the admission of the Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus, King of Edessa into the Canon of the Scripture, lived in our days of Max Muller and Sanscrit scholarship, we doubt whether they would have acted as they did. The first mention of these Epistles ever made, was by the famous Eusebius. This pious bishop seems to have been self-appointed to furnish Christianity with the most unexpected proofs to corroborate its wildest fancies. Whether among the many accomplishments of the Bishop of Caesarea, we must include a knowledge of the Cingalese, Pehlevi, Tibetan, and other languages, we know not; but he surely transcribed the letters of Jesus and Abgarus, and the story of the miraculous portrait of Christ taken on a piece of cloth, by the simple wiping of his face, from the Buddhistical Canon. To be sure, the bishop declared that he found the letter himself written in Syriac, preserved among the registers and records of the city of Edessa, where Abgarus reigned.
We recall the words of Babrias: “Myth, O son of King Alexander, is an ancient human invention of Syrians, who lived in old time under Ninus and Belus.” Edessa was one of the ancient “holy cities”. The Arabs venerate it to this day; and the purest Arabic, is there spoken. They call it still by its ancient name Orfa, once the city Arpha-Kasda (Arphaxad) the seat of a College of Chaldeans and Magi; whose missionary, called Orpheus, brought thence the Bacchic Mysteries to Thrace. Very naturally, Eusebius found there the tales which he wrought over into the story of Abgarus, and the sacred picture taken on a cloth; as that of Bhagavat, or the blessed Tathagata (Buddha) was obtained by King Binsbisara. The King having brought it, Bhagavat projected his shadow on it. This bit of “miraculous stuff” with its shadows, is still preserved, say the Buddhists, “only the shadow itself is rarely seen.”
In like manner, the Gnostic author of the Gospel according to John, copied and metamorphosed the legend of Ananda who asked drink of a Matangha woman – the anti-type of the woman met by Jesus at the well, and was reminded by her that she belongs to a low caste, and may have nothing to do with a holy monk. “I do not ask thee, my sister”, answers Ananda to the woman, “either thy caste or thy family, I only ask thee for water, if thou canst give me some.” This Matangha woman, charmed and moved to tears, repents, joins the monastic Order of Gautama, and becomes a saint, rescued from a life of unchastity by Sakya-muni. Many of her subsequent actions were used by Christian forgers, to endow Mary Magdalene and other female saints and martyrs.
“And whosoever shall give drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward”, says the Gospel (Matthew 10:42). “Whosoever, with a purely believing heart, offers nothing but a handful of water, or presents so much to the spiritual assembly, or gives drink therewith to the poor and needy, or to a beast of the field; this meritorious action will not be exhausted in many ages”, says the Buddhist Canon.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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