isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

"If we turn now to Christna and attentively compare the prophecies respecting him, as collected in the Ramatsariarian traditions of the Atharva, the Vedangas, and the Vedantas, with passages in the Bible and apocryphal Gospels, of which it is pretended that some presage the coming Christ, we shall find very curious facts. Following are examples: [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“Turning again from the historical to the mythical narratives, invented alike about Christna, Buddha, and Christ, we find the following: Setting a model for the Christian avatar and the archangel Gabriel to follow, the luminous San-tusita (Bodhisat) appeared to Maha-maya 'like a cloud in the moonlight, coming from the north, and in his hand holding [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“Notwithstanding the impossibility for Christian missionaries to understand clearly the spirit of a religion wholly based on that doctrine of emanation, which is so inimical to their own theology, the reasoning powers of some simple Buddhistical preachers are so high, that we see a scholar like Gutzlaff, utterly silenced and put to great straits by [...]