Biographies of Chrishna and Buddha Sakia
Showing the Nations of Antiquity That Have Worshipped the Sun-God as an Impersonation, and Accepted His History as Displayed in the Astronomical Order of the Starry Heavens.
The Hindoos - the oldest nation that possesses scriptural as well as monumental records, dating back to the highest antiquity, even to pre-historic ages - believed in one Supreme Omnific Central Source of Being, and from Him descending emanations corresponding in many respects to the mythical personages of the astronomical religion.
The biographies of two of their principal Avatars or incarnated God-men, Chrishna and Buddha Sakia, are closely accordant with the history of the Sun-God. The births of these Avatars through the motherhood of a pure Virgin, their lives in infancy threatened by a vengeful king, their flight and concealment in Egypt, their return to work miracles, save, heal and redeem the world, suffer persecution, a violent death, a descent into hell, and a reappearance as a new-born Savior, are all items of the Sun-God's history, which have already been recited, and maintain in every detail the correspondence between the Hindoo faith and the Sabean system. The feasts, fasts, seasons of lamentation and rejoicing, the reverence paid to fire, flame, heat, light, and even the minutest details of ceremonial rites practiced in the most ancient astronomical worship, are scattered through the varying forms of Hindoo theology, until the parity of the two systems cannot be questioned. An equally faithful adherence to the Sabean legend is to be found in the story of the Indian Dyonisius, subsequently repeated in Egypt, and forming the basis of the Osiric legend.
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