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Title: Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Lillie, Arthur
Subjects: Buddhism -- Relations Christianity Christianity -- Origin Essenes Christianity -- Relations Buddhism
Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ave abandoned make them withdraw into themselvesand pray. Their principle at least is true. The soul which is occu-pied with things above, and is initiated into the mysteries ofthe Lord, cannot but account the body evil, and even hostile.The soul of man is divine, and his highest wisdom is tobecome as much as possible a stranger to the body with itsembarrassing appetites. God has breathed into man fromheaven a portion of His own divinity. That which is divineis invisible. It may be extended, but it is incapable of sepa-ration. Consider how vast is the range of our thought overthe past and the future, the heavens and the earth. Thisalliance with an upper world, of which we are conscious,would be impossible, were not the soul of man an indivisibleportion of that divine and blessed spirit. Contemplation of thedivine essence is the noblest exercise of man ; it is the onlymeans of attaining to the highest truth and virtue, and thereinto behold God is the consummation of our happiness here.
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BiMMI MYSTICAL ISRAEL. 75 The confusion of tongues at the building of the tower ofBabel should teach us this lesson. The heaven those vainbuilders sought to reach, signifies symbolically the mind, wheredwell divine powers. Their futile attempt represents the pre-sumption of those who place sense above intelligence—whothink that they can storm the Intelligible by the Sensible.The structure which such impiety would raise is overthrownby spiritual tranquility. In calm retirement and contempla-tion we are taught that we know like only by like, and thatthe foreign and lower world of the sensuous and the practicalmay not intrude into the lofty region of divine illumination. An alliance with the upper world was, we see here, theobject of these dreaming Essenes. This in India is called yoga(union). Was there any connection between the Indian andJewish mystics? The most subtle thinker of the modern English Church,the late Dean Mansel, boldly maintained that the philosophyand rites of the The

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